Dr. Hiroshi Harada - Member at Large

Hiroshi Harada received the Ph.D. degree from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1995. From 1995, he joined Communications Research Laboratory (CRL), Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT), Japan (currently National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)). From 1996 to 1997, he was a postdoctoral fellow of Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is currently a research manager of ubiquitous mobile communications group of NICT. He has researched software defined radio and cognitive radio for more than ten years. He was the chair of Technical Committee of Software Radio, IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Communication Society, Japan, from May 2005 to May 2007 and he is currently a visiting professor of University of Electro-Communications, and a board of directors of Software Defined Radio (SDR) forum, U.S.A.. He received the Young Scientist Award from the Minister of Education, Culture Sports Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan and the achievement award of IEICE in 2006 on the topic of software defined radio. He is co-author of "Simulation and Software Radio for Mobile Communications" (Artech House, 2002).