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electronics engineer

Yasuhiro Ando, Japanese electronics engineer. Recipient Presidential award, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, 1988, numerous paper awards in field. Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institute Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers.

Background

Ando, Yasuhiro was born on June 4, 1951 in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. Son of Tome-ichi and Yasuko (Azuma) Ando.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, 1974. Master of Science, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, 2001.

Career

From engineer to assistant to executive manager musashino electrical communications laboratories Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Tokyo, 1976—1987, senior research engineer opto-electronics laboratories Tokai, Japan, 1987—1988, from senior manager to senior research engineer opto-electronics laboratories Japan, 1988—1993, head licensing group intellectual property department Tokyo, 1993—1995. Research group leader, senior research engineer Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Opto-electronics Laboratories, 1995-2000. General manager optical device division Fujikura Ltd., 2000—2003.

Director, chief technical officer Sigma-Links Inc., 2003—2005. Senior manager fiber optics components and system division Fujikura Ltd., 2005—2006, general manager optoelectronic circuits and system Research and Development center, since 2006, associate executive officer, since 2008. Chairman Technology Group on Electromech.

Devices of Institute Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers, Tokyo, 1998—2000. Executive director Japan Institute Electronics Packaging, 2005—2007.

Achievements

  • Yasuhiro Ando has been listed as a noteworthy electronics engineer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institute Electronics, Information and Comm. Engineers, The Licensing Executives Society Japan.

Interests

  • Avocations: reading, visiting museum, golf, drinking.

Connections

Married Noriyo Yamashita, October 9, 1976. Children: Yuhsuke, Kensaku, Shunpei.

Father:
Tome-ichi Ando

Mother:
Yasuko (Azuma) Ando

Spouse:
Noriyo Yamashita

child:
Kensaku Ando

child:
Shunpei Ando

child:
Yuhsuke Ando