Hiroshi Hamada

Hiroshi Hamada (Member, IEEE) received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from the Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2009 and 2011, respectively. In 2011, he joined Photonics Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Atsugi, Japan.

He was engaged in research and development projects of InP-based THz MMICs, modules, and subsystems such as 300-GHz power amplifiers, mixers, 500-GHz amplifiers, and high-speed transceivers in Photonics Labs, Device Technology Laboratories, NTT Inc. and 6G-IOWN Promotion Department of NTT DOCOMO from 2011 to 2025. His research interests include subsystems, MMIC, device modeling, and packaging technologies for THz applications, such as high-speed wireless communications and sensing/imaging. He is currently a Senior Manager at the Research and Development Planning Department, NTT, Inc., Chiyoda, Japan.

Mr. Hamada is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE). He has been serving as a member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) Technical Committee on Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Solid State Devices (TC-9) and an ITPC Member of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) RF Subcommittee.

He was a recipient of the IEEE IMS Best Industry Paper Award in 2016, the URSI AP-RASC Young Scientist Award in 2016, the APMC Prize in 2018, the IEICE Young Researcher’s Award in 2019, the IEEJ Excellent Presentation Award in 2022, the IEEE MTT-S Japan Young Engineer Award in 2022, the Michiyuki Uenohara Memorial Award in 2022, the IEEE BCICTS Best Paper Award in 2024, and the IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2026.