Md Abdus Samad Kamal received the B.Sc. Engineering degree from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), Bangladesh, in 1997 and the Master and Ph.D. degrees from Kyushu University, Japan, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He was a Lecturer with KUET from 1997 to 2000, a Researcher with Kyushu University in 2006, and 2008 to 2011, an Assistant Professor with International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia from 2006 to 2008, a Researcher with The University of Tokyo, Japan from 2011 to 2014. He worked as a Visiting Researcher with Toyota Central R \& D Labs., Inc., Japan, from 2014 to 2016. He was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering, Monash University Malaysia from 2016 to 2019. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Science and Technology, Gunma University, Japan. His research interests include intelligent transportation systems, connected and automated vehicles, and the applications of machine learning and model predictive control. Dr. Kamal is a member of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Chartered Engineer of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).