Kenya Suzuki

Kenya Suzuki (Member, IEEE) received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering and the Dr. Eng. degree in electronics engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1995, 1997, and 2000, respectively. In 2000, he joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT). From September 2004 to September 2005, he was a Visiting Scientist with the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. From 2008 to 2010, he was with NTT Electronics Corporation, where he was involved in the development and commercialization of silica-based waveguide devices. In 2014, he was a Guest Chair Professor with the Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 2014 to 2016, he was a Secretary of the Optoelectronics Research Technical Committee of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Member of the subcommittee of Passive Optical Devices for Switching and Filtering of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) and was the Chair of the subcommittee in 2022. He is currently a distinguished Researcher and Project Leader with NTT Device Technology Laboratories. He is also the Director of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization project on the photonic and electronic hybrid switch for the future datacenter networking of the Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association. His research interests include optical functional devices, optical signal processing and automation of device design, and fabrication and evaluation of optical devices. He was the recipient of the Young Engineer Award and Electronics Society Activity Testimonial from IEICE in 2003 and 2016. He is a Member of Optica, IEICE, and the Physical Society of Japan.