Distinguished Researcher

	Akira Fujiwara was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1967. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in applied physics from The University of Tokyo, Japan in 1989, 1991, and 1994, respectively. In 1994, he joined NTT LSI Laboratories and moved to NTT Basic Research Laboratories in 1996. Since 1994, he has been engaged in research on silicon nanostructures and their application to single-electron devices. He is a senior manager of Physical Science Laboratory and a group leader of Nanodevices Research Group since April 2012. He was a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA during 2003-2004. He was a director of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics in 2010 and 2011 and a visiting professor of Hokkaido University in 2013. He received the SSDM Young Researcher Award in 1998, SSDM Paper Award in 1999, and Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (JJAP) Paper Awards in 2003 , 2006, and 2013. He was awarded the Young Scientist Award from the Minister of MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology) in 2006. He is a member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics and the IEEE.
	Yoshitaka Taniyasu was born in Toyama, Japan on June 10, 1973. He received his B.E., M.E., and Dr. Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Chiba University, Chiba, Japan in 1996, 1998, and 2001, respectively. He joined NTT Basic Research Laboratories in 2001. He has been engaged in research on wide-bandgap nitride semiconductors. He was a visiting researcher at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) during 2011-2012. He received the Young Scientist Award for the Presentation of the Excellent Paper at the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) in 2001, the Young Scientist Award at the 14th Semiconducting and Insulating Materials Conference in 2007, the Young Scientists’ Prize from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Young Scientist Award at the 38th International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors in 2011, and the Best Paper Award at the International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors in 2012. He is a member of the JSAP.
	Norio Kumada was born in Gifu, Japan in 1975. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Tohoku University, Japan, in 1998, 2000, and 2003, respectively. In 2003, he joined NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Kanagawa, Japan. Since then, he has been engaged in the study of highly correlated electronic states realized in semiconductor heterostructures. He received Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan in 2008, and the Young Scientists’ Prize from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2012. He is a member of the Physical Society of Japan.
	Katsuhiko Nishiguchi was born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1975. He received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1998, 2000, and 2002, respectively, from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. Since joining NTT Basic Research Laboratories in 2002, he has been engaged in the research on physics and technology of Si nanometer-scale devices for LSI applications with low power consumption and new functions. He was an invited researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France during September 2008 and also a guest researcher at Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands during 2012-2013. He received IUPAP Young Author Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Physics of Semiconductors 2000, Graduate Student Award Silver at the Materials Research Society 2000 Fall Meeting, Young Scientist Award at the Japan Society of Applied Physics Spring Meeting in 2000, JSAP Outstanding Paper Award 2013, and The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (The Young Scientists' Prize) in 2013. He is a member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics.
	Shiro Saito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1972. He received his B.S., M.S., and Dr. Eng. degrees in applied physics from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1995, 1997, and 2000, respectively. In 2000, he joined NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan. Since then, he has been engaged in quantum information processing using superconducting circuits. He was a guest researcher at Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands during 2005-2006. He received Young Scientist Award at the Japan Society of Applied Physics Spring Meeting in 2004. He is a guest associate professor in Tokyo University of Science from 2012. He is a member of the Physical Society of Japan and the Japan Society of Applied Physics.
	Hiroki Takesue was born in Wakayama, Japan, on May 10, 1971. He received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in engineering science from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1994, 1996, and 2002, respectively. In 1996, he joined NTT Access Network Systems Laboratories, Ibaraki, Japan, where he engaged in research on optical access networks using wavelength division multiplexing. In 2003, he moved to NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Atsugi, Japan. Since then, he has been engaged in experimental quantum optics and quantum communications. He is the recipient of several awards, including the ITU-T Kaleidoscope Conference 2nd Best Paper Award in 2008 and The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (The Young Scientists' Prize) in 2010. From 2004 to 2005, he was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, Stanford, CA. He is a member of IEEE and the Japan Society of Applied Physics.
	Imran Mahboob was born in Sheffield, England on 20 April, 1978. He received a combined B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Theoretical Physics from The University of Sheffield in 2001 and Ph.D. degree in Physics studying the electronic properties of nitride semiconductors from The University of Warwick in 2004. He joined NTT Basic Research Laboratories in 2005 as a Research Associate, from 2008 as a Research Specialist, and from 2012 as a Senior Research Scientist. His current interests are developing electromechanical resonators for digital signal processing applications and to study their non-linear dynamics. He received the Clarke Prize in Physics from the University of Sheffield in 2001 and the Young Scientist Award at the 2003 Physics of Semiconductors and Interfaces conference.