Associate Professor of RCAST of the University of Tokyo
Associate Professor of RCAST of the University of Tokyo Yasuaki Monnai is an associate professor of Information and Somatics at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) of the University of Tokyo, Japan. He received the B.E. degree in mathematical engineering and information physics and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in information physics and computing from the University of Tokyo in 2008, 2010, and 2013, respectively. From 2010 to 2011, he was a Visiting Scholar with the University of Kassel, Germany, and with the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany, in 2012. From 2015 to 2021, he was an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor with the Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics, Keio University, Japan. In 2021, he joined RCAST where he was selected as the University’s Excellent Young Researcher that year. He received the Young Scientists' Award from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in 2023 and the Best Teaching Award of the Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, for Academic Year 2024. His research interest includes exploring wireless systems for interfacing humans and machines using terahertz waves and ultrasound.