Shintaro Arai

Takaya Yamazato (S’91–M’93–SM’16) received the Ph.D. degree from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1993. He is currently a Professor with the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan. His research interests include visible light communication, ITS, and e-learning. In 1998, he gave a half-day tutorial entitled “Introduction to CDMA ALOHA” at the IEEE Globecom held in Sydney, Australia. In 2006, he received the IEEE Communication Society's Best Tutorial Paper Award. He served as the Co-Chair of the Wireless Communication Symposia of the IEEE ICC 2009. He was the Co-Chair of Selected Areas in Communication Symposia of the IEEE ICC 2011. From 2008 to 2010, he served as the Chair of the Satellite and Space Communication Technical Committee of the IEEE Communication Society. In 2011, he gave a half-day tutorial entitled “Visible Light Communication” at the IEEE ICC 2011 held in Kyoto, Japan. From 2017 to 2018, he was the Director of Asia/Pacific Board, the IEEE Communication Society. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for the Japanese Section of the IEICE Transactions on Communications from 2009 to 2011.