Biography
Hiroshi Hamada received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2009 and 2011, respectively. He joined NTT Photonics Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Atsugi, Japan, in 2011, where he started the research and development of the millimeter-wave/terahertz (THz) monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) for wireless communications. He was engaged in researches of InP-transistor-based THz MMICs and modules such as 300-GHz power amplifiers, mixers, transceivers, and 500-GHz amplifiers in NTT Photonics Labs and Device Technology Labs from 2011–2021. In 2021, he was transferred to NTT DOCOMO, INC., and he is currently working in 6G-IOWN Promotion Department as a Manager. Mr. Hamada is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE). He has been serving as a member for the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) Technical Committee on Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Solid State Devices (TC-9). 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, and the IEEJ Excellent Presentation Award in 2022.