Associate Professor
Masaharu Takahashi
Laboratory

Japanese

Profile
Dr. Masaharu Takahashi received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering in 1989 from Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan, and the M.E. and D.E. degree in electrical engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1991 and 1994, respectively. He was a Research Associate from 1994 to 1996, an Assistant Professor from 1996 to 2000 at Musashi Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, and an Associate Professor from 2000 to 2004 at Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Tokyo, Japan. He is currently an Associate Professor at Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
He served as Editor-in-Chief of IEICE Transactions on Communication from 2011 to 2013, Vice Chair of Editorial Board, IEICE Communication Society from 2013 to 2014, Editor in chief of Editorial committee of IEICE Communications Society Magazine(Japanese Edition) from 2014 to 2016, Chair of Technical Committee on Wireless Power Transfer, IEICE from 2018 to 2020, Vice President of IEICE-CS Board from 2019 to 2021, and Chair of IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society Tokyo Chapter from 2019 to 2020. He also served as Vice-Chair of 2020 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP 2020), General Co-Chair of 2018 Asian Wireless Power Transfer Workshop (AWPT2018), General Co-Chair of AWPT2019, General Co-Chair of 2020 International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Communications (ICETC 2020), General Co-Chair of ICETC 2021 and General Co-Chair of 2022 IEEE International Workshop on Electromagnetics: Applications and Student Innovation Competition (iWEM 2022).
His main interests have been electrically small antennas, RFID, planar array antennas (RLSA), EMC and research on evaluation of the interaction between electromagnetic fields and the human body by use of numerical and experimental phantoms. He received the IEEE AP-S Tokyo chapter young engineer award in 1994. He is a Fellow of IEICE and a Senior member of IEEE.
Award
1992 TELECOM Columbus Award of the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation
1994 IEEE AP-S Tokyo Chapter Young Engineer Award
2000 Distinguished Contributions Award of the IEICE Communications Society
2004 Distinguished Contributions Award of the IEICE Communications Society
2006 Distinguished Contributions Award of the IEICE Communications Society
2008 Distinguished Contributions Award of the IEICE Communications Society
2008 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP2008) Best Paper Award
2009 Best Paper Award of the IEICE Transactions on Communications (Japanese Edition)
2009 Best Magazine Paper Award of the IEICE Communications Society (Japanese Edition)
2011 Distinguished Contributions Award of the IEICE Communications Society
2012 Best Paper Award of the IEICE Transactions on Communications (Japanese Edition)
2013 Outstanding Contributions Award of the IEICE Communications Society
2014 Distinguished Contributions Award of the IEICE Communications Society
2017 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP2017) Best Paper Award
2019 Wireless Days 2019 Best Poster Award
2021 ComEx Top Downloaded Letter Award of the IEICE
2021 Distinguished Contributions Award of the IEICE Communications Society
2022 Educational Service Award of the IEICE