Kazuhiro Ikeda

Kazuhiro Ikeda (Member, IEEE) received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in precision science from the Osaka University, Suita, Japan, in 1998 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degee in electrical engineering (Photonics) from the University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA, in 2008. His doctoral thesis was on nonlinear optical responses in silicon nitride and amorphous silicon and sidewall corrugated waveguide devices, all for silicon photonics applications. From 2000 to 2004, he worked for the Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, on polarization controllers and polarization mode dispersion compensators for optical fiber communications. In 2009, he joined the Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Ikoma, Japan, as an Assistant Professor, where he studied opto-spintronics and plasmonic microresonators for semiconductor lasers. Since 2014, he has been a Research Group Leader with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan. His research interests include silicon photonic integrated circuits and hybrid nanophotonics on silicon. Dr. Ikeda is also the Senior Member of Optica, Member of the IEICE, JSAP, IEEE Photonics Society. He was the recipient of World Cultural Council (WCC) Special Recognition 2019.