Biography

Toshiaki Koike-Akino received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in communications and computer engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 2002, 2003, and 2005, respectively. During 2006–2010 he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard University, and joined Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2010. His research interests include signal processing for data communications, computing and sensing. He received 14 prestigious awards including the YRP Encouragement Award 2005, the 21st TELECOM System Technology Award, the 2008 Ericsson Young Scientist Award, the IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 Best Paper Award in Wireless Communications Symposium, the 24th TELECOM System Technology Encouragement Award, and the IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 Best Paper Award in Wireless Communications Symposium. He serves TPC members for major conferences including OFC 2022. He is a Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA).