Keynote Lectures & Invited Lectures

Kayoko Yamamoto is a Professor at the Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, the University of Electro-Communications. She earned her Ph.D. in Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1999. Her expertise lies in social systems engineering, with a particular focus on spatial information science, urban and regional planning, and environmental and disaster science.
Her career includes serving as a Senior Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the Cabinet Office of Japan, a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo, and a visiting professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. She currently holds several academic leadership roles, including Associate Member of the Science Council of Japan, President of the Geographic Information Systems Association of Japan (GISA), and Vice President of the Society of Environmental Science, Japan (SESJ). She also contributes internationally as a member of the Women in Engineering Committee of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO).
Beyond academia, she actively participates in governmental committees, providing strategic expertise for “Smart Tokyo” initiatives and national disaster mitigation efforts. Her extensive body of work focuses on leveraging geospatial data to address complex socio-environmental challenges and to foster more resilient and sustainable societies.

Yoshiyuki Tanaka received the Doctor of Science from The University of Tokyo in 2006. In 2007, he served as a visiting researcher at the German Research Centre for Geosciences, where he worked on theories of Earth deformation. In 2008, he joined the Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, engaging in research on geodesy, particularly the theory and observation of earthquakes and volcanoes. Since 2018, he has been with the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, The University of Tokyo. He currently leads the relativistic geodesy group within the JST project “Space-time Information Platform with a Cloud of Optical Lattice Clocks,” focusing on the development of applications of optical lattice clocks.

Tsuneki Yamasaki received the B. E. degree from College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University in 1975, and M. S. and D. E. degree from College of Science and Technology, Nihon University in 1977 and 1986, respectively. He joined College of Science and Technology, Nihon University as a Research Assistant from 1977 to 1986 and was promoted to an Assistant Professor in 1987 and to an Associate Professor in 1991, and became a Professor at the Junior College, Nihon University, Dept. of Industrial Technology in 1997. Since 2000, he has been a Professor at the College of Science and Technology, Nihon University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Since 2018, he has been a Project Professor at Nihon University, and now Professor Emeritus.
He was a Visiting Scientist at MIT, Cambridge, USA, on leave of absence from Nihon University, from September 1989 to September 1990. His research interests are in the scattering and guiding problems of electromagnetic waves.
He received the Research Encouragement Award for young scientist from the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Japan in 1985. He served as the chair of the administrative committee of PIERS 2006 Tokyo and PIERS 2018 Toyama, and chair of KJJC-AP/EMCJ/EMT 2006 and EMTS 2013 Hiroshima. He was a chairman of Technical Committee on Electromagnetic Theory in Electronics Society, 2005-2006, IEICE, and became Fellow of IEICE Japan since 2023.

Mitoshi Fujimoto was born in Japan, on June 20, 1964. In 1985, he joined the Toyota Central Research & Development Laboratories, Inc. He received his B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1989, his M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Institute in 1991, and a Doctorate in 2000, respectively. In 2003, he assumed as an associate professor at the University of Fukui, and is currently a professor in the university. His present interest lies in the area of adaptive arrays, DOA estimation, MIMO technology, and array antenna controlling using quantum annealing technologies. He is a member of the IEEE, IEICE and ITE.

Safumi Suzuki received the B.E. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the M.E. and D.E. degrees in Electronics and Applied Physics from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2005, 2007, and 2009, respectively. From 2009 to 2014, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronics and Applied Physics, from 2014 to 2016, an Associate Professor with the Department of Physical Electronics, and from 2016 to 2024, an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, respectively. Since 2024, he has been a Professor with the Institute of Integrated Research, Institute of Science Tokyo. His research interests include terahertz electronic devices and applications.

Yuichi Hayashi is a Professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology. His research interests include electromagnetic compatibility and hardware security. He is the chair of the EM information leakage subcommittee in IEEE EMC Society Technical Committee 5. He serves as a member of the IEEE EMC Society Board of Governors. He has been recognized through many awards and honors, including the IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility Best Symposium Paper Award (2013), IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society Technical Achievement Award (2021), and the Richard B. Schulz Best Transactions on EMC Paper Award (2024).

Takeshi Maesaka is a Principal Researcher at the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Japan. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Hokkaido University, Japan. His research focuses on mesoscale meteorology and radar meteorology, particularly the development and application of X-band multi-parameter (dual-polarization) radar and Ka-band cloud radar networks.
He led the development of a real-time Quantitative Precipitation Estimation (QPE) system for the X-band multi-parameter radar network (XRAIN) operated by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), Japan. In 2013, he received the Commendation for Science and Technology from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan, for his contributions to the development of QPE methods using X-band multi-parameter radar.
His recent publication includes the chapter “Cloud Radar” in Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation (C. Andronache, Ed., Springer, 2018).

Mamoru Yamamoto received his Ph.D. degrees in Electronics, Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, 1988. He is a Professor of Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University in Japan since 2007 and the Director since 2022. In his career he played a research associate of Radio Atmospheric Science Center (RASC), Kyoto University during 1988-1996 and an associate professor of Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere (RASC)/ Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University during 1996-2007.
His primary research interests include the following: Study of ionospheric irregularities with radars and sounding rockets, Study of low- and mid-latitude ionosphere by means of satellite-ground beacon experiment, Study of equatorial atmosphere with Equatorial Atmosphere Radar (EAR), Observations of atmospheric waves with the MU radar, Study for wind measurement technique with atmospheric radars, and Radar imaging of atmospheric turbulence and ionospheric irregularities.
He has been recognized through many awards and honors, including Ohbayashi Prize on Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (1996) and Tanakadate Prize on Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (2007).

Masanori Iwamoto received his Ph.D. in Science from The University of Tokyo in 2020. He previously served as a JSPS Research Fellow at Kyushu University and held a position as an Adjunct Research Associate at Columbia University from 2021 to 2023. Following a postdoc researcher at Kyoto University from 2023 to 2025, he joined Kobe University, where he is currently a Project Assistant Professor. His primary research field is space plasma physics, with specific interests in nonlinear plasma waves, particle acceleration, and collisionless shocks.

Shun Ishii received his PhD in Science from the University of Tsukuba in 2011. Since then, he has held research positions at the University of Chile, the University of Tsukuba, and the University of Tokyo, before joining the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) ALMA Project in 2016. From 2016 to 2020, he served as an Operations Astronomer at the Joint ALMA Observatory in Chile, contributing to ALMA science operations. He is currently an Associate Professor at NAOJ and serves as the East Asia (EA) ALMA Development Manager, overseeing developments led by EA for the ongoing Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade (WSU) and working closely with international partners to realize the WSU system. His research interests include observational studies of star formation, particularly the origin of high-mass stars, and the development of observational techniques for future radio astronomy, including new methods for calibration and performance evaluation.

Akimasa Hirata received the B.E. and PhD. Degrees in communications engineering from Osaka University, Suita, Japan, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. In 2001, he joined the Department of Communications Engineering, Osaka University, as an Assistant Professor. In 2004, he moved to Nagoya Institute of Technology, where he is currently Professor and Director of research center. His research interests include electromagnetic safety, risk management system for heat-related illness, methods in neuroscience, antennas, and related computational techniques. Prof. Hirata is Chair of International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection. He received several awards including the Japan Academy Medal and JSPS Prize (2018), Japan Open Innovation Prize (President of the Science Council of Japan Prize in 2022) from the Cabinet Office, and IEEE EMC-S Richard R. Stoddart Award (2023). He is a Fellow of IEEE, Institute of Physics, IEICE, and IEEJ.