Program

Photonics for next generation radio access network (RAN)

Masataka Nakazawa

After receiving his Ph.D. from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr. Nakazawa joined NTT Laboratories in 1980. He was a visiting scientist at MIT in 1984. In 2001, he was appointed professor at Tohoku University, where he became the director of the Research Institute of Electrical Communication. He has been a distinguished professor since 2008. He was the president of the Electronics Society of the IEICE, a director at large of the OSA, and a board member of the IEEE Photonics Society. He was the president of the IEICE in 2019. He engaged in research on optical solitons, ultrahigh-speed transmission, and ultrashort pulse lasers that led on from his invention of the compact erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). His recent research has focused on various approaches to digital coherent transmission, mode-locked lasers, and mobile fronthaul transmission in 5G and 6G. He has published 520 papers and given 400 international conference presentations. He has received many awards including Medal with the Purple Ribbon, the Japan Academic Prize, the IEEE Quantum Electronics Award, the OSA Charles Hard Townes Award, and the Japan Prize. Dr. Nakazawa is a Fellow of the OSA, IEICE (honorary member), JSAP, and a Life Fellow of the IEEE.

The History of Radio Astronomy: celebrating 90 years of innovation and discovery.

Ronald Ekers

Professor Ronald Ekers has had an internationally distinguished career involving research in radio astronomy and radio astronomical techniques. He is a CSIRO fellow, an adjunct Professor at Curtin University in Perth. He has a PhD in astronomy from the Australian National University.
He was appointed Foundation Director of CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility and returned to Australia in 1988 after a career in Europe and the US. Previously he was director of the VLA, the largest radio telescope in the USA.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Royal Dutch Academy of Science and the US National Academy of Science. He is also a Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society.
His research interests in astronomy are broad; including extragalactic astronomy and cosmology, galactic nuclei (the centres of galaxies), ultra high energy particle physics and innovative applications of radio astronomical techniques. He has been heavily involved in all aspects of the International proposal to build a Square Kilometer Array (SKA) since its inception.
Ron is a former President of the International Astronomical Union. In 2003, he received Australia’s prestigious Centenary Medal, and two years later was awarded the Flinders Medal from the Australian Academy of Science. In 2014, he received the Grote Reber Medal for innovative contributions to radio astronomy. He is recognised as an Officer in the Order of Australia.

Space weather disturbances in electrical power networks
preparing for an extreme event

Craig Rodger

Education

• PhD　
  University of Otago　August 1997
• BSc(Hons) First Class　University of Otago　December 1993

Professional Experience

• Professor　
  Physics Dept. University of Otago　2014-present
• Head of Department　
  Physics Dept. University of Otago　2016-2020
• Associate Professor　
  Physics Dept. University of Otago　2011-2014
• Senior Lecturer (above the bar)　
  Physics Dept. University of Otago　2008-2011
• Senior Lecturer　
  Physics Dept. University of Otago　2004-2008
• Lecturer 　
  Physics Dept. University of Otago　2001-2004
• Associate Investigator　
  Low Frequency Electromagnetic Research　2000-2001
• Casual Lecturer　
  Physics Dept. University of Otago　2000-2001
• Research Fellow　
  British Antarctic Survey, UK　1997-1999
• Lecturer　
  Physics Dept. University of Otago　1997

Awards

• Appointed President of the New Zealand national URSI committee, late 2021
• Elected as Vice-Chair of URSI Commission H, 31 August 2021
• Appointed to the University of Otago's Beverly Chair in Physics in March 2019
• Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award, 2015
• American Geophysical Union 2014 Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing
• University of Otago Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011
• University of Otago Early Career Award for Distinction in Research, 2004
• Elected co-chair of the IAGA/URSI VERSIM working group, 2003-2013
• International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award, 2002
• International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award, 1999
• American Geophysical Union 1998 Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing
• New Zealand Science and Technology Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1997-1999
• Inaugural Hatherton Award of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 1997

Dr. Craig J. Rodger holds the Beverly Chair in Physics at the University of Otago in New Zealand. His primary research area is in Space Physics, with a particular focus on energetic electrons trapped in the Earth's magnetic field, termed the Van Allen radiation Belts. Craig's expertise is primarily around the loss of these energetic electrons into the Earth's atmosphere and lower ionosphere through the process of energetic electron precipitation. He has studied this using a mix of space-based and ground-based instruments, including the Antarctic-Arctic Radiation-belt (Dynamic) Deposition – VLF Atmospheric Research Konsortium (AARDDVARK) network, of which he is Co-PI. He helped develop the energetic electron precipitation forcing representation used in the CMIP6 climate modelling improvement effort. The other side of his Space Physics research is in the area of Space Weather, which examines the energy flows from the Sun and how it impacts technological systems on and around the Earth. This has includes ionospheric and atmospheric impacts of solar flares and solar proton events. Most recently he has begun working with the energy industry in New Zealand, investigating the likely impact of extreme space weather on electrical transmission and pipeline networks. This is supported by a large five-year international research project, the Solar Tsunami Endeavour Program: space weather prediction and risk mitigation for New Zealand's energy infrastructure.

Harmonization of Scientific, Commercial, and Other Radio Uses
with Regulatory Science for SDGs

Ryuji Kohno

Ryuji Kohno received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1984. He was a Professor and the Director of Centre on Medical Information and Communication Technology, in Yokohama National University in Japan for 1998-2021 and then Professor Emeritus. In his currier he played a part-time role of a director of Advanced Telecommunications Laboratory of SONY CSL during 1998-2002, directors of UWB Technology and medical ICT institutes of the National Institute of Information and Communication Technologies(NICT) during 2002-2012. For 2012-2020 he was CEO of University of Oulu Research Institute Japan – CWC-Nippon Co. and since 2020 Vice-President of YRP International Alliance Institute. The meanwhile for 2007-2020 a distinguished professor in University of Oulu in Finland and since 2006 an associate member of the Science Council of Japan(SCJ). In IEEE he was a member of the Board of Governors of Information Theory Society in 2000-2009, and editors of Transactions on Communications, Information Theory, ITS, IEEE802.15 standardization TG6ma Chair and IEEE Life Fellow. In IEICE he was Vice-president of Engineering Sciences Society of IEICE during 2004-2005, Editor-in chief of the IEICE Trans. Fundamentals during 2003-2005 and IEICE Fellow. He is a founder and a chair of steering committees of international symposia of medical information and communication technologies (ISMICT) since 2006, general and TPC chairs in many international conferences such as PIMRC99, SDR02, ISIT03, UWBST04, ISMICT06&15 etc.