Bio:

Hajime Shoji received the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo, and joined Fujitsu Laboratories in 1990. He moved to Eudyna Devices, a joint venture of Fujitsu and Sumitomo Electric in 2004, then after the change in organization, moved to Sumitomo Electric Industries, LTD. in 2009. He has been consistently leading the development of compound semiconductor materials and devices for photonic and microwave communications. Currently, he is serving as a general manager of the Transmission Devices Laboratories, and also as an executive officer of Sumitomo Electric.

Dr. Shoji is a senior member of the IEEE/Photonics Society, and a member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE). He has been also engaged in the management of many domestic and international conferences as a chair and a member of program/organization committees.