Shinya Sugiura

Shinya Sugiura (M’06-SM’12) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics and electrical engineering from the University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K., in 2010.
From 2004 to 2012, he was a Research Scientist with Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc., Nagakute, Aichi, Japan. From 2013 to 2018, he was an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan. Since 2018, he has been an Associate Professor with the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, where he heads the Wireless Communications Research Group. His research has covered a range of areas in wireless communications, networking, signal processing, and antenna technology. He authored or coauthored over 70 IEEE journal and magazine papers. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Dr. Sugiura has received a number of awards, including the Fifth Yasuharu Suematsu Award from IEICE in 2019, the RIEC Award from Tohoku University in 2016, the Young Scientists' Prize by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan in 2016, the 14th Funai Information Technology Award (First Prize) from the Funai Foundation in 2015, the 28th Telecom System Technology Award from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation in 2013, the sixth IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2011, the 13th Ericsson Young Scientist Award in 2011, and the 2008 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Japan Chapter Young Engineer Award. He was also certified as an Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Communications Letters in 2013 and 2014 and of IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2018. Currently, he is serving as the Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.