Keynote speakers

Koichi Ito received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Chiba University, Chiba, Japan and the D.E. degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering and Director of Research Center for Frontier Medical Engineering, Chiba University. His main research interests include analysis and design of printed antennas and small antennas for mobile communications, research on evaluation of the interaction between electromagnetic fields and the human body by use of numerical and experimental phantoms, microwave antennas for medical applications such as cancer treatment, and antenna systems for human-body communications. He has co-authored over 120 journal papers with review and nine books including Handbook of Microstrip Antennas (IEE, 1989) and Antennas and Propaga-tion for Body-Centric Wireless Communications (Artech House, 2006).