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Kenichi Okada

Professor

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
School of Engineering
Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology)

okadaee.e.titech.ac.jp

Biography

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Kenichi Okada received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in communications and computer engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1998, 2000, and 2003, respectively. From 2000 to 2003, he was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in Kyoto University. In 2003, he joined Tokyo Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor, where he is currently a Professor of electrical and electronic engineering in Institute of Science Tokyo. He has authored or co-authored more than 500 journal and conference papers. His current research interests include millimeter-wave and terahertz CMOS wireless transceivers for 20/28/39/60/77/79/100/300GHz for 5G, WiGig, satellite and future wireless systems, digital PLL, synthesizable PLL, atomic clock, and ultra-low-power wireless transceivers for Bluetooth Low-Energy, and sub-GHz applications.

Prof. Okada is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), and the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP). He was a recipient or co-recipient of the Ericsson Young Scientist Award in 2004, the A-SSCC Outstanding Design Award in 2006 and 2011, the ASP-DAC Special Feature Award in 2011 and Best Design Award in 2014 and 2015, the MEXT Young Scientists’ Prize in 2011, the JSPS Prize in 2014, the Suematsu Yasuharu Award in 2015, the MEXT Prizes for Science and Technology in 2017, the RFIT Best Paper Award in 2017, the IEICE Best Paper Award in 2018, the RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper Award in 2019, the IEICE Achievement Award in 2019, the DOCOMO Mobile Science Award in 2019, the IEEE/ACM ASP-DAC Prolific Author Award in 2020, the Kenjiro Takayanagi Achievement Award in 2020, the KDDI Foundation Award in 2020, the IEEE CICC, Best Paper Award in 2020, the IEEE ISSCC Author-Recognition Award in 2023, and more than 50 other international and domestic awards. He is a Fellow of IEEE. He is/was a member of the technical program committees of IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), VLSI Circuits Symposium, European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), and he is/was also Guest Editors and an Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (T-MTT), a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS).

short bio Prof. Kenichi Okada received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1998, 2000, and 2003, respectively. He joined Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2003, and he is now Professor in Institute of Science Tokyo. His research interests include millimeter-wave and terahertz wireless transceiver, and digital PLL. He is a Fellow of IEEE, and he has worked for ISSCC, JSSC, VLSI Circuits, ESSCIRC, A-SSCC and RFIC Symposium.

Education

  • B.E. in School of Electronic Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan. (March 1998)
  • M.E. in Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, Graduate school of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan. (March 2000)
  • Ph.D. in Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, Graduate school of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan. (March 2003)

Academic Degree

Doctor of Informatics (Kyoto Univ.) March 24, 2003

“A Study on Modeling and Analysis for Performance Fluctuation of CMOS Integrated Circuits”


Work Experience


Research Projects

  • Phased-array transceiver for 5G, 6G, 7G
  • Terahertz Wireless Communication, Terahertz Imaging
  • 1Tb/s Millimeter-wave Wireless Communication
  • Satellite Communication
  • All-Digital PLL, Synthesizable PLL, Injection-Locked PLL
  • Millimeter-wave Antenna, High-frequency PCB design
  • Quantum computing/sensing, Cryo-CMOS, Atomic Clock
  • IoT battery-less transceiver
  • Reconfigurable analog RF circuits
  • Modeling and Optimization of On-chip Spiral Inductor

Keywords

CMOS, RF, Oscillator, VCO, PLL, LNA, PA, Mixer, AD-PLL, Sub-sampling PLL, Injection-Locked PLL, Synthesizable PLL, Device characterization, De-embedding, Millimeter-wave, Wireless transceiver, Radar, Imager, Wi-Fi, WiGig, 60GHz, 5G, Beyond 5G, 6G, 7G, Phased array, 28GHz, 39GHz, Cellular, Smart phone, Antenna, Phased-array antenna, 5G antenna, High-frequency PCB design, Satellite communication, Satellite constellation, LEO, GEO, GPS, Terahertz, 300GHz, Quantum computer, Quantum computing, Quantum sensing, Quantum communication, Cryogenic CMOS, Cryo-CMOS, Atomic clock, ULPAC, CSAC, IoT, IoE, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, BLE, Battery-less sensor node


Recruitment

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Academic Society

IEEE(Fellow), IEICE(Senior Member), IPSJ, JSAP


Professional Activities and Service


Selected Publications


Honors and Awards

  • Young Investigator Award, IEICE (2002)
  • Yasujiro Niwa Outstanding Paper Award (2004)
  • Yamashita Memorial Award, Information Processing Society of Japan (2004)
  • Ericsson Young Scientist Award (2004)
  • IEEE A-SSCC Outstanding Design Award (2006)
  • ADMETA Technical Achievement Award 2006 (2007)
  • IEEE/ACM ASP-DAC, Special Feature Award (2011)
  • MEXT Young Scientists’ Prize (2011)
  • IEEE A-SSCC Best Design Award (2011)
  • IEEE SSCS Japan Chapter Academic Research Award (2012)
  • IEEE SSCS Japan Chapter Academic Research Award (2013)
  • IEEE/ACM ASP-DAC, Best Design Award (2014)
  • JSPS Prize (2014)
  • IEEE/ACM ASP-DAC, Best Design Award (2015)
  • Suematsu Yasuharu Award (2015)
  • IEEE/ACM ASP-DAC, Best Design Award (2017)
  • MEXT Prizes for Science and Technology (2017)
  • IEEE RFIT, Best Paper Award (2017)
  • IEEE SSCS Kansai Chapter Academic Research Award (2018)
  • IEICE Best Paper Award (2018)
  • IEEE SSCS Japan Chapter Academic Research Award (2019)
  • IEEE RFIC Symposium, Best Student Paper Award (2019)
  • IEICE Achievement Award (2019)
  • DOCOMO Mobile Science Award (2019)
  • IEEE/ACM ASP-DAC, Prolific Author Award (2020)
  • Kenjiro Takayanagi Achievement Award (2020)
  • KDDI Foundation Award (2020)
  • IEEE CICC Best Paper Award (2020)
  • IEEE ICTA Best Paper Award (2020)
  • IEEE/ACM ASP-DAC, Best Design Award (2021)
  • IEEE ISSCC Outstanding Evening Session Award (2021)
  • IEICE Best Paper Award (2022)
  • IEEE Fellow (2023)
  • IEEE ISSCC Author-Recognition Award (2023)
  • IEICE Best Paper Award (2024)

(more than 50 international and domestic awards)

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