Hiroki Iimori, Ph.D.

Hiroki Iimori (Member, IEEE) is a Senior Researcher at Ericsson Research. He earned his Ph.D. with special distinction (summa cum laude) from Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, in 2022, during which he worked as a Research Associate on a collaborative project with Continental AG (2019–2022). He was also a Guest Researcher at the University of Electro-Communications, Japan, and a Visiting Student at the University of Toronto, Canada, in 2020. He holds B.Eng. and M.Eng. (Hons.) degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, awarded in 2017 and 2019. His research interests include optimization theory, wireless communications, and signal processing. His honors include the Ericsson Key Contributor Award (2025), two Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Student Awards for co-authored papers (2023, 2024), the IEICE Young Researcher of the Year Award (2020), and the Yoshida Scholarship Foundation Doctoral Fellowship (2019–2022), among others.