Akira Iwasaki received the M. Sc. degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1987. He joined Electrotechnical Laboratory in 1987 where he engaged in research on space technology and remote sensing system. He received Doctoral degree of Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1996. He is currently the professor in the University of Tokyo. He is also the project leader of the Japanese hyperspectral sensor, Hyperspectral Imager SUIte (HISUI) that will be on the International Space Station. In 2014, he won the 2015 best reviewers award of the IEEE Transactions of Geoscience and Remote Sensing. He was a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS). He was the General Chair of the 7th IEEE GRSS Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing Evolution in Remote Sensing (WHISPERS) in 2015.

Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Professor of the University of Tokyo.

Professor of Fukushima University

Kagawa University

Ibaraki Univesity