Hiroshi Iwai

Short Bio:

Hiroshi Iwai received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo and worked in the development of integrated circuit devices for 26 years in Toshiba. After retirement of Toshiba, he joined Tokyo Institute of Technology and engaged in the research of semiconductor device technology for 20 years. He is now an emeritus professor Tokyo Institute of Technology, a vice dean and Distinguished Chair Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He served many positions in foreign top level universities such as D.J. Gandhi Distinguished Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India, and Honorary Professor, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China. He has authored and coauthored more than 1000 international journal and conference papers and 500 domestic (or Japanese) ones. He has served on many committees of conferences and editors of journals, as well as a chair or member of many committees of public organizations. Just for example, he served the President of the IEEE Electron Devices Society, IEEE Division 1 Director, a member of IEEE Board, chair of IEEE EDS Fellow Committee, general chair of IEEE BCTM, general chair of IEEE IWJT, etc. He has contributed to the development of NMOS/CMOS, RF-CMOS, Bipolar, Bi-CMOS, and Power device technologies so many years. Because of his great contribution, we received many prizes and awards. Just for example, he received Grand Prize of Nikkei BP Technology Awards, IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport Award, IEEE EDS J.J.Ebers Award, Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize, Prizes for Science and Technology by Minster of Education, IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award, ECS Thomas Callinan award, Nagoya Mayor Award. Dr. Iwai is, a life fellow of IEEE, a fellow of Institute of Electrical Engineers Japan, a fellow of the Japan Society Applied Physics, and a fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan.