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Principal Investigator

 Kuniharu Takei, Ph. D (CV)

    Email: takei@ist.hokudai.ac.jp

About PI

Kuniharu Takei obtained his B.S. M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan in 2003, 2006 and 2009 under the supervision of Professor Makoto Ishida, respectively. As part of his Ph.D., he proposed and demonstrated a new type of MEMS/CMOS/Crystal-growth neural devices, which enable us to do in-vivo neural signal recording, local drug delivery, and local optical stimulation as well as on-chip signal processing. he has also shown the first proof-of-concept of neural signal recording and drug delivery using rats. In recognition of proposals and demonstrations, I became a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC2) during Ph.D. students. Right after obtaining his Ph.D. degree, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley (Electrical Engineering Department) as a postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Professor Ali Javey with a joint-appointment in the Material Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In the Prof. Javey group, he began by working on nanowire synthesis and its application of macroscale flexible electronics with low-voltage operation, resulting in becoming an artificial electronic skin (e-skin). This shows one of the promising approaches of nanomaterial integration on macroscle flexible substrates to the community of nanomaterial and devices. He also worked on freestanding ultrathin III-V semiconductor transistors by using an epitaxial layer transfer technique for high performance devices to replace current Si-based integrated circuits.  After postdoctoral fellow, he moved to Osaka Metropolitan University (Department of Physics and Electronics) (Previously Osaka Prefecture University) as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2013 April, associated professor, and a full professor.

    He joined Hokkaido University (Graduate School of Information and Technology, where he is a full professor since 2023. 

   He serves as a reviewer for Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Electronics, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Materials, Science Advances, Matter, NPG Asia Materials, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, small, etc. and a grant/proposal reviewer for the research foundations/programs in the US, Canada, Europe, Singapore,Switzerland, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, and Italy as professional contributions to the fields.

Awards

• IEEE Senior Member, February 23rd, 2023.

• Royal Society of Chemistry, Highly Cited Author (top 5%), October 1st, 2021.

• Marubun prize, March, 2021.

• Funai Foundation, FFIT prize, June, 2020.

• Clarivate Analytics, Highly Cited Researchers 2018, Nov. 27th, 2018.

• Young Scientist's Prize by MEXT Japan, April 10th, 2018.

• EMS Award (Electronic Material Symposium), July 8th, 2016.

• NISTEP Researcher (MEXT, Japan), Dec. 10th, 2015.

• ATI Research Award. July 31st, 2015.

• Special award at the symposium of Nature Industry Award organized by Osaka Science and Technology Center. Nov. 2013.

• MIT Technology Review 35 Top Young Innovators under 35 (TR35) Aug. 2013

• Discover "Top 100 Stories of 2010 #85: Robot Skin Can Feel Your Touch" 2011

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Journal Editorial Boards:

• Editorial Board -  Nanoscale Research Letters (Springer)

• International Editorial Advisory Board - Advanced Materials Technology (Wiley)

• Editorial Board -  Scientific Reports (NPG)

• Advisory Editorial Board - Applied Surface Science Advances (Elsevier)

• Editorial Board - Journal of Semiconductors (IoP)

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Services for conferences:

• ICPST, Program Committee, since 2018.

• MNC, Program Committee (Nanodevices), since 2016.

• SSDM, Program Committee, since 2017.

• ECS Meeting Symposium co-organizer (Fall meeting, Low-Dimensional Nanoscale Electronic and Photonic Devices) since 2015.

• IEEE Sensors 2018, Technical Program Committee, 2018.

• IMID 2018, Technical Program Committee, 2018.

• IUMRS-ICEM 2018, Symposium co-organizer (Flexible Transistors Technologies for Large-Area Electronics), 2018.

• IUMRS-ICA 2017, Symposium co-organizer, 2017.

• MNC 2016, Steering Committee, 2016.

• IUMRS-ICA 2016, Program Committee (Nanomaterials and Energy Devices), 2016.

• IMID 2015, Session chair, 2015.

• 228th ECS Meeting, Session chair, 2015.

• 226th ECS Meeting, Session chair, 2014.

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Academic Positions  

2022-Present  Professor

                         Graduate school of Information and Technology

                         Hokkaido University

2022-2023  Professor

                         Department of Physics and Electronics

                         Osaka Metropolitan University

2019-2022   Professor

                         Department of Physics and Electronics

                         Osaka Prefecture University

2017-Present  Technical Adviser

                        Heaven Japan Inc.

2017-2021  PRESTO Researcher (Co-appointment)

                        Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

2016-2021 Technical Adviser

                        Techsor Inc.

2017-2019   Associate professor

                         Department of Physics and Electronics

                         Osaka Prefecture University

2013-2017    Tenure-track assistant professor

                         Department of Physics and Electronics

                         Osaka Prefecture University

2013-2015     Visiting scientist

                         Department of Chemistry

                         University of Tokyo

2009-2013     Postdoctoral Fellow (Prof. Ali Javey)

                        Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,

                        University of California, Berkeley (CA, USA)

2009-2013     Joint appointment :Postdoctoral Researcher (Prof. Ali Javey)

                        Material Science division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (CA, USA)

Education 

2009     Ph.D. (Department of Electronics and Information)

                Toyohashi University of Technology (JAPAN) (Prof. Makoto Ishida)

2007     Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC2)

2006     M.S.  (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) 

                Toyohashi University of Technology (JAPAN) (Prof. Makoto Ishida)

2003       B. S.  (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

                Toyohashi University of Technology (JAPAN)

Alumni (Students/postdocs)

Shingo Harada (2013/4-2016/3),       Wataru Honda (2013/4-2016/3)

Yosuke Fujii (2015/8-2015/12),         Yutaro Goto (2016/11-2017/2)

Kenichiro Kanao (2014/4-2017/3),   Yuki Yamamoto (2014/4-2017/3)

Tomoyuki Miyata (2017/9-2017/12), Shogo Nakata (2015/4-2018/3)

Yuya Hasuike (2015/4-2018/3),         Daisuke Yamamoto (2016/4-2019/3)

Mao Shiomi (2017/4-2020/3),            Takafumi Yamaguchi (2017/4-2020/3)

Toshiki Nakajima (2019/4-2020/3)    Yuyao Lu (2018/11-2020/10)

Kaichen Xu (2018/11-2020/10, PI Zhejiang University)

Shiho Ohtani (2018/4-2021/3)           Yusuke Fujita (2018/4-2021/3)

Shota Hozumi (2018/4-2021/3)         Seiji Wakabayashi (2019/4-2022/3)

      Shih-Hsin Yang (2019/4-2022/3)       Fumika Muraoka (2020/4-2022/3)

Staff (OG):

Satoko Honda, Miharu Nakagawa, Yu Todo