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About Dr Hosako

Iwao Hosako received his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1993. After two years at ULSI Laboratory of NKK Corp. from 1993 to 1994, he joined Communications Research Laboratory (former name of NICT). He is currently the Executive Director of the Beyond 5G Research and Development Promotion Unit and Director General of the Terahertz Research Center at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan. His research focuses on terahertz semiconductor devices, cameras, wireless systems, standards, and regulations. He has served as Vice Chair of the IEEE 802.15.3d Task Group and is currently Vice Chair of the IEEE 802.15 Standing Committee on Terahertz (SC-THz) and IEEE 802.15.3mb. He served as a working group member of the Beyond 5G (6G) Promotion Strategy Roundtable of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan from January 2020 to June 2020.

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About Dr Chiharu Tokoro

Dr. Tokoro is received her PhD from the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Engineering. Currently, she is a professor at Waseda university and the University of Tokyo. Her research is focused on advanced separation technologies for resource circulation, especially mineral processing, chemical engineering, and powder processing for waste/wastewater treatment and recycling. She is the author of 16 books, over 150 articles, and more than 20 inventions. She is also a member of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) and the Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ). She has also fulfilled her duty as a Director or a leading position of several academic societies in Japan.

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About Dr Withayachumnankul

Withawat Withayachumnankul completed Bachelors and Masters degrees in electronic engineering at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Thailand, in 2001 and 2003, and a doctorate degree in electrical engineering with a Dean’s Commendation at the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 2010. Also in 2010, he was awarded a three-year Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 2015, he was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Dr. Withayachumnankul is a Professor with the University of Adelaide, and the Leader of the Terahertz Engineering Laboratory. He has been a Visiting Researcher at Osaka University since 2017. Currently, he serves as a member for the Australian Research Council (ARC), and College of Experts and as a Track Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology. Between 2017 and 2018, he was the Chair of the IEEE South Australia Joint Chapter on Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT), and Antennas and Propagation (AP). He has authored and co-authored more than 100 journal publications. In recent years, he has been the lead investigator for four ARC grants, totalling to over AUD 1.5 million. His research interests include terahertz waveguides, metasurfaces, antennas, radar, communications, metrology, and non-destructive evaluation. He was the recipient for the IRMMW-THz Society Young Scientist Award 2020.

About Prof Peter Bridgewater

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