Tetsuya Kawanishi received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electronics
from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1992, 1994, and 1997, respectively.
From 1994 to 1995, he was with the Production Engineering Laboratory of
Panasonic. During 1997, he was with the Venture Business Laboratory, Kyoto
University, where he was engaged in research on electromagnetic scattering
and on near-field optics. In 1998, he joined the Communications Research
Laboratory, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (now the National
Institute of Information and Communications Technology, NICT), Tokyo, Japan,
where he was the Director of Lightwave Devices Laboratory of NICT. During
2004, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of California at San Diego. From 2015, he is a
professor of Faculty of Science and Technology, Waseda University, Tokyo,
Japan. His current research interests include high-speed optical modulators
and RF photonics.
He served on Photonics Technology Letter as an associate editor from 2008
to 2011, and on the Microwave Photonics sub-committee of the Photonics
Society as a committiee member. He also served as members or chairs of
committees of the Optical Fiber CommunicaƟon Conference (OFC), the Conference
on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), OptoElectronics Communications Conference
(OECC), the IEEE International Symposium on the Microwave Photonics (MWP),
Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonics Conference (APMP), and Asia Communications
and Photonics Conference (ACP). He was the general chair of MWP/ APMP 2014
in Sapporo, Japan, and a TPC co-chair of ACP 2014. He also served for international
standardization in IEEE 802 and also in non-IEEE standardization bodies,
such as International Telecommunication Union (ITU), International Electrotechnical
Commission (IEC) and Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT). Now, he is the chair
of Task Group on Fixed Wireless Systems (TG-FWS) in APT Wireless Group
(AWG). From 2017, he is a member of Board of Governors of IEEE Photonics
Society.