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Narihiro Nakamoto【Career】
Majored in electrical engineering at Kyoto University. After graduation, he joined Mitsubishi
Electric Corporation, where he worked in the Antenna Engineering Department of theInformation Technology Research Laboratory. He is engaged in research and development ofantennas for radar and communications.
【The current research】
He is engaged in the research and development of antennas used in various types ofradar and satellite communications, especially a method called “Phased array”. Thesedays, phased arrays have been applied to many applications such as 5G base stations, heis researching and developing technologies to achieve both low cost and highperformance.

What brought you to IEEE?

I work as a researcher in a company; the company is active inacademic societies, and we are encouraged to participate in IEEE,the world’ s largest academic societies of telecommunications.
Especially, the field related to antenna, which is my subject, isactively involved with IEEE and many researchers are themembers. They introduced IEEE to me right after I joined thecompany. I used to take advantage of IEEE for my input right aftermy participation, like searching papers or purchase of books. Theturning point was when my paper won a young researchers award
sponsored by a domestic IEEE organization unit. Then it helped me
to make myself heard and it became easier for me to do work at
the academic society. Various professors kindly gave me advice
and the relationship with IEEE got well established, leading to an
opportunity to help an organization hold an academic conference.

What advantage can we take of IEEE?

It’ s advantageous that we can communicate closely withprofessors in universities. In particular, by active participation inIEEE activities you can experience something otherwise
inaccessible in ordinary days. IEEE holds special lectures andinternational conferences by inviting domestic or international
specialists; when I was an official of a domestic chapter where
researchers of a feather get together, I was involved in organizing
international conferences, where I got to know many professors.
The activities of IEEE and relationships with professors will be
helpful for me to gain my doctorate, I believe.

company is one of public relations activities to widely promote
the company’ s advanced technology. Our company is actively
working for academic societies domestically and internationally,
so involved with IEEE. Publishing a paper in IEEE or giving apresentation in an international conference will be a good
opportunity to make our development understood by manypeople. Also, university students participate in such a
conference, so companies can share their activities andresearches with them as part of recruiting process.

【Message】– IEEE lets you access otherwise unavailable
information domesticallyIEEE is one of the largest societies in the field of telecommunication,
so you will have opportunities to access otherwise unavailable
information if you are actively involved. Especially, in lectures
about world-leading technologies held by inviting foreign
professors in Japan you can talk with well-known researchers,
which is exclusively precious. I expect that more local
conferences in overseas will be held online and many people
can attend them virtually. I think there are a lot to gain as a
researcher, so if you are not yet an IEEE member, let’ s checkthe site to know what service is available. If you are already amember, please participate in activities of IEEE, which will bebeneficial for researchers and duties in a company.

What is great about IEEE?

『Excellent tool to search papers』

One of the most appreciated privileges for IEEE members is IEEE
Xplore Digital Library, which is a tool to search papers. Just
entering keywords related to what you need will extract therelevant articles from the papers of researchers all over the world.
In a domestic academic society, we often read papers in Japanese
only; thus, the capability of directly looking up papers from allover the world is greatly helpful for daily researches. I myself often
owe a lot to it.

『Cross-disciplinary magazine』
IEEE Spectrum, which is a free magazine for members, is also oneof the privileges; it’ s not only about telecommunication but also
various world-leading technologies, and so informative. It’ shelpful to catch up with the trends in the world or understanddemands, so I often read one when I commute to gather
information to plan research and development in my company.

Relationship between a company and IEEE

Giving a presentation in an academic society on behalf of a

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