Hiroshi Shirai

Dr. Hiroshi SHIRAI received the B.E. and the M.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Shizuoka University, Japan, in 1980 and 1982, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Polytechnic University (presently re-named as Tandon School of Engineering, New York University), New York in 1986. He was a Research Fellow, then a Postdoctoral Scientist until March 1987 in Polytechnic University. Since April 1987, he has been with Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, where he is currently a Vice President, the Director of International Center and a Professor. He has been serving as a committee member of various technical societies and international meetings. He is now an Editorial Advisory member of IEICE Fundamentals Review. He received the R.W.P. King Best Paper Award from the Antennas and Propagation Society of the IEEE in 1987, IEICE Electronics Society Award in 2019, and IEICE Best Paper Award in 2020. His current research interests include wave propagation and diffraction in time harmonic and transient domains. Dr. Shirai is a Fellow of the IEICE and The Electromagnetic Academy, Senior member of the IEEE, and a member of Sigma Xi, the IEE of Japan.