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Dr. Koichi Shimizu

Biography :

Koichi Shimizu received M.S. (1976) and Ph.D. (1979) degrees from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He was a Research Associate at the University of Washington, 1974-79. He was an Assistant Professor, an Associate Professor, and a Professor at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, in 1979-2016. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Hokkaido University, Japan, an Invited Research Professor of Waseda University, Japan, and a Professor of Xidian University, Xi’an, China. He has been engaged in the studies of biomedical engineering, including those of wave propagation in biological media, optical measurement, biotelemetry, and biological effects of electromagnetic fields. He served as an associate editor of IEEE Trans. ITB in 1999–2007. He has been a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy and an editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Nature. He is a member of IEEE, OSA, ISOB, IEEJ, IEICE, and JSMBE. He received the Research Promotion Award (1981), Best Paper Award (1995), and New Technology Development Award (2020) from the Japan Society for Medical and Biological Engineering.