Yasuhiko Arakawa

Fellow Yasuhiko Arakawa is a Specially-Appointed Professor and Director of Quantum Innovation Co-Creation Center in the Institute of Nano Quantum Information Electronics at The University of Tokyo. He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1980 and became a full Professor in 1993. He served as the President of International Commission for Optics (ICO) in the term from 2024 to 2017 and is a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) from 2017. He has authored more than 800 scientific journal papers and has given more than 500 invited presentations, including 95 plenary/keynote presentations, at international conferences. He received numerous awards, including Leo Esaki Award (2004), IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Award (2004), IEEE David Sarnoff Award, the Medal with Purple Ribbon (2009), C&C Prize (2010), Heinrich Welker Award, OSA Nick Holonyak Jr. Award (2011), the Japan Academy Prize (2017), IEEE Junichi Nishizawa Medal (2019), URSI Balthasar Van der Pol Gold Medal (2023), and honor of a Person of Cultural Merit (2023).