Biography

Hiroshi Kawaguchi (IEEE M'98, ACM M'99) received B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in electronic engineering from Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and earned a Ph.D. degree in Engineering from The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2006.
He joined Konami Corporation, Kobe, Japan, in 1993, where he developed arcade entertainment systems. He moved to The Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, as a Technical Associate in 1996, and was appointed as a Research Associate in 2003. In 2005, he moved to Kobe University, Kobe, Japan. Since 2007, he has been an Associate Professor with The Department of Information Science at that university. He is also a Collaborative Researcher with The Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo. His current research interests include low-voltage SRAM, RF circuits, and ubiquitous sensor networks.
Dr. Kawaguchi was a recipient of the IEEE ISSCC 2004 Takuo Sugano Outstanding Paper Award and the IEEE Kansai Section 2006 Gold Award. He has served as a Program Committee Member for IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) and IEEE Symposium on Low-Power and High-Speed Chips (COOL Chips), and as a Guest Associate Editor of IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences and IPSJ Transactions on System LSI Design Methodology (TSLDM).
He is a member of the IEEE, ACM, IEICE, and IPSJ.