Dr. Hiroaki Kikuchi received the BS, MS and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tohoku University in 1995, 1997 and 2002, respectively. He was engaged on development of a LED arrays head for high resolution printer at R&D, OKI Ltd. Co. during 1997-1999. He joined Non-Destructive Evaluation & Scientific Research Center, Faculty of Engineering, Iwate University as a lecturer in 2002 and is currently an associate professor at Faculty of Science and Engineering, Iwate University. 

Currently, he is a Director of the Magnetics Society of Japan (International Affairs), a Council Member of the Asian Union of Magnetics Societies (AUMS).  In addition, he is a member of Editorial Committee of the Magnetics Society of Japan, and of the Institute Electrical Engineers of Japan. 

Kikuchi’s areas of expertise are magnetism, electromagnetic nondestructive evaluation and sensing techniques using ferromagnetic materials include a higher sensitive magnetic field sensor composed of ferromagnetic thin film. He has contributed over 100 publications in archival journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Yukio Nozaki is a Professor of Physics at Keio University in Yokohama, Japan. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Science from Keio University in Japan in 1993 and 1995, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Keio University in 1998. After completing his Ph.D., he joined the Graduate School and Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering of Kyushu University as a Assistant Professor in 1998 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006. Then, he returned to Department of Physics of Keio University as an Associate Professor in 2010 and was promoted to Professor in 2016. Since 2023, Professor Nozaki is serving as a Director for International Affairs of the Magnetics Society of Japan (MSJ) which is a sister society of IEEE Magnetic Society, and as a council member of Asian Union of Magnetic Society (AUMS). His current research interests range from the fundamental physics of spintronics phenomena to the development of novel spintronics materials that can produce spin current efficiently for next-generation spintronics devices.