YASUHIKO ARAKAWA

Current Position

Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo
Specially Appointed Professor, Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics, The University of Tokyo

4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153 Japan
Phone: +81-3-5452-6245
E-mail:arakawa@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Date of Birth and Nationality
November 26, 1952, Aichi, Japan

Education

The University of Tokyo, Japan B.S. 1975 Electronics Eng.
The University of Tokyo, Japan M.Eng 1977 Electrical Eng.
The University of Tokyo, Japan Ph.D. 1980 Electrical Eng.

Professional Carriers

1980 Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo
1981 Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo
1993 Full Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo ((until March 2018)
2002 Director, Nanoelectronics Collaborative Research Center, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
2006 Director, Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics, The University of Tokyo (until March 2018)
2008 Member, Science Council of Japan (2008-2014)
2011 Visiting Professor, Technical University of Munich (2011-2013)
2013 Director, Center for Photonics and Electronics Convergence, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo (until Marrch 2018)
2018 Professor Emeritus, Specially Appointed Professor, Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics, The University of Tokyo

Main Honors and Awards

1991 IBM Science Award, Japan
1991 Distinguished Achievement Award, IEICE, Japan
1999 Electronics Society Award, IEICE, Japan,
2002 ISCS Quantum Device Award
2004 Leo Esaki Award
2004 IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Award
2006 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards 2006 Running Up Award
2007 Fujiwara Award
2007 Prime Minister Award
2009 Medal with Purple Ribbon
2009 IEEE David Sarnoff Award
2010 C&C Prize
2011 Heinrich Welker Award
2011 OSA Nick Holonyak Jr. Award
2012 JSAP Isamu-Akasaki Award
2013 JSAP Distinguished Achievement Award
2017 Japan Academy Prize
2017 Foreign Member, US National Academy of Engineering

Technical Society Members, grades

Life Fellow, IEEE
Fellow, OSA
Fellow, Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP)
Fellow, Institute of Electronics Information, Communication Engineering (IEICE)

Main Activities in International Scientific Society

2014 President, International Commission for Optics (ICO) (2014-2017)
2014 Chair, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) AC1(2014-2017)
2014 Member, IUPAP C8 (2014-2020)
2009 Vice President, ICO (2009-2014)
2008 Board of Governor, IEEE Photonics Society (2008-2011)
1999 Regional Editor in Chief, IOP New Journal of Physics (NJP) (1999-2011)
1993 Editor in Chief, Solid State Electronics (1993-1998)

General Chairs of International Conferences

2017 General Chair, The 24th General Congress, International Commission for Optics, Tokyo, Japan
2016 General Chair, The 18th International Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy, Nagoya, Japan
2015 General Chair, The 17th Physics of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures, Nara, Japan
2010 General Chair, International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials, Tokyo, Japan
2007 General Chair, International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors, Kyoto, Japan
2006 General Chair, The 18th International Conference on Quantum Electronics, Tokyo, Japan
2003 General Chair, The 11th International Conference on Modulated Semiconductors, Fukuoka, Japan
2003 General Chair, Photonics Asia, Shanghai, China, 2003
2002 General Chair, The 2nd International Conference on Quantum Dots 2002, Tokyo, Japan
1998 General Chair, 18th IEEE Semiconductor Laser Conference, Nara, Japan

The number of publicaions and presentaions

The number of publications in International Scientific Journals 675
Invited talks at International Conferences (Plenary or Keynote talks) 450 (74)