Future Perspective of the Radiative Wireless Power Transfer and Collaboration between Japan and Philippines
Presenter: Prof. Naoki Shinohara, Ph.D.
Naoki Shinohara received the B.E. degree in electronic engineering, the M.E. and Ph.D (Eng.) degrees in electrical engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1991, 1993 and 1996, respectively. He was a research associate in Kyoto University from 1996. From 2010, he has been a professor in Kyoto University. He has been engaged in research on Solar Power Station/Satellite and Microwave Power Transmission system. He is a Fellow of IEEE and URSI, IEEE MTT-S elected AdCom voting member (2022-2027), IEEE MTT-S Technical Committee 25 (Wireless Power Transfer and Conversion) former chair and member, IEEE MTT-S Standard Committee chair, IEEE MTT-S Broaden Participation Committee (BPC) member, IEEE MTT-S MGA (Member Geographic Activities) Region 10 regional coordinator, IEEE WPT Initiative member, IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference & Expo founder and Steering committee member, URSI commission D (Electronics and Photonics) former chair, the first chair and technical committee member on IEICE Wireless Power Transfer in Japan, Japan Society of Electromagnetic Wave Energy Applications former president and adviser, Space Solar Power Systems Society president, and was IEEE MTT-S Distinguish Microwave Lecturer (2016-18). He was the recipient of the 2025 IEEE Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award, the 2023 IEEE Journal of Microwaves Best Paper Award, the 2022 Award of Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan, and the 2023 IEICE Achievement Award in Japan, etc. His supervised students were the recipient of 100 awards from 2011 to 2025. He has been author of over 150 reviewed journal papers, over 130 keynotes and invited speakers in international conferences, and over 120 the other invited speakers including 55 DMLs. He has collaborated with totally over 150 companies for the WPT and microwave applications in 30 years. He is the co-inventor of 35 patents and 20 submitting patents. He has worked to harmonize academia and industry of the WPT. He organizes Wireless Power Transfer Consortium for Practical Applications (WiPoT), and Wireless Power Management Consortium (WPMc) in Japan as a chair from 2013 with over 40 companies to establish the WPT market and to encourage the WPT business. His books are “Wireless Power Transfer via Radiowaves” (ISTE Ltd. and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014), “Recent Wireless Power Transfer Technologies Via Radio Waves (ed.)”, (River Publishers, 2018), “Far-Field Wireless Power Transfer and Energy Harvesting”, (Artech House, 2022), “Theory and Technology of Wireless Power Transfer: Inductive, Radio, Optical, and Supersonic Power Transfer” (CRC Press, 2024), and “Wireless Power Transfer: Theory, Technology, and Applications (2nd Edition) (ed.)” (IET, 2018 and 2014), and some English, Japanese, and Chinese translated text books of WPT.
Toward Battery-Less Intelligence: Advancing RF Wireless Power Transfer and Energy Harvesting for Sustainable IoT Systems
Presenter: Prof. Jefferson A. Hora, Ph.D.
Jefferson A. Hora received the B.S. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Mindanao State University–Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT), Philippines in 2002, the M.S. degree with a specialization in Microelectronics IC Design from National Taipei University, Taiwan in 2009, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia in 2022. He currently serves as the Dean of the College of Engineering at MSU-IIT, a position he has held since July 2025. His previous academic leadership roles include serving as Department Chair from 2014 to 2017 and working as a Visiting Scholar at UTS from 2023 to 2024. Throughout his career, he has founded MSU-IIT’s Microelectronics Laboratory and the Center for Integrated Circuit Design (CICD) which hosted seven major research projects funded by several national and international organizations, namely, DOST, CHED, USAID, and UTS. He is currently leading a flagship DOST-funded project under the Center for Integrated Circuits and Devices Research (CIDR) focused on multi-source energy-harvesting architectures for battery-less IoT devices. His research interests include energy-harvesting power management integrated circuits (PMICs), power electronics, DC-DC converters, FPGA-based systems, wireless sensor networks, and embedded systems.
Interactive Chalkboard Lesson on Resonance and Group Theory
Presenter: Prof. Emeritus Takashi Ohira, Ph.D.
Takashi Ohira received his PhD degree from Osaka University in 1983. He developed GaAs MMICs for multi-beam satellite transponders at NTT Yokosuka Laboratory. He created electronically steerable parasitic array radiator (ESPAR) antennas at ATR Wave Engineering Laboratories. He founded two regional chapters for IEEE MTT Society (Kansai Chapter in 2006 and Nagoya Chapter in 2010). He served as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer from 2013 to 2015. He inaugurated the IEICE wireless power transfer annual competition championship series in 2016. He presided over IEICE Tokai Section in 2016. He is currently a professor emeritus at Toyohashi University of Technology. He has been publishing monthly enigmas in IEEE Microwave Magazine since 2016. He is an IEICE Fellow, URSI Fellow, and IEEE Life Fellow.