His research interests include high-performance, low-power, and reliable digital circuit and smart image sensor design. He is a program committee co-chair of the Cool Chips conference series, and a program committee member of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, VLSI Circuits Symposium, Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, and International Conference on Field Programmable Technology. Ikeda has a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo.