Shouhei Kidera

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Curriculum Vitae (2023/04)

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1-5-1, Chofugaoka, Chofu,Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan
TEL: +81-42-443-5186
FAX: +81-42-443-5186
Email：kidera(at)uec.ac.jp (Please convert (at) to @)
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Research Topics
• Microwave imaging
• Advanced radar signal or image processing
• Electromagnetic inverse scattering analysis
• Ultra-wideband or millimeter wave short range radar and remote sensing
• Super-resolution 3-D imaging theory and algorithm
• Shadow region imaging using multiple scattering waves
• Super-resolution Doppler velocity estimation
• Target recognition with machine learning approach
• Polarimetric and interferometric radar
• Moving target tracking and imaging, and automobile radar application
• Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and remote sensing issue
• Bio-medical microwave imaging for breast tumor detection and ablation treatment
• Microwave non-destructive testing application
• Terahertz imaging with radar and tomography approach

Academic Profile

• Apr, 1st, 1998 Entrance to School of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Kyoto University
• Mar, 24th, 2003 Graduation from School of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Kyoto University
• Apr, 1st, 2003 Entrance to Master Course in Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
• Mar, 25th, 2005 Graduation from Master Course in Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
• Apr, 1st, 2005 Entrance to Doctor Course in Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
• Sep, 25th, 2007 Graduation from Doctor Course in Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University (Ph.D in Informatics)


Doctor Thesis


"High-Performance 3-D Imaging Algorithms for UWB Pulse Radars",


Research Profile

• Apr, 2005 COE Research Assistant in Graduate School of Informatics in Kyoto University, 21st Century COE Program (Grant No. 14213210)
• Apr, 2007 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow (Doctor Course)
in Graduate School of Informatics Kyoto University
• Oct, 2007 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow (Post Doctoral) in Graduate School of Informatics Kyoto University
• Apr, 2009, Assistant Professor in Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Electro-Communications, University of Electro-Communications
• Sep., 2014, Associate Professor in Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Electro-Communications, University of Electro-Communications
• Apr., 2016 - Sep., 2016, Visiting Researcher, Univerisity of Wisconsin Madison (with Lab by Prof. S.C. Hagness)
• Oct., 2017 - Mar., 2021, JST PRESTO Researcher (Additional post)
• Apr., 2023 - present, Full Professor (tenure) in Graduate School of Electro-Communications, University of Electro-Communications
Selected Refereed Journal Articles (Publication Lists)


1. Masafumi Setsu, Takumi Hayashi, Jianghaomiao He, and Shouhei Kidera
   "Super-resolution Doppler Velocity Estimation by Kernel Based Range-τ Point Conversions for UWB Short Range Radars", ,
   IEEE Trans. Geoscience & Remote Sensing, (in press), 2019.

2. Ayumi Yamaryo, Tatsuo Takatori, Shouhei Kidera, and Tetsuo Kirimoto,
   "Range Points Migration Based Image Expansion Method Exploiting Fully Polarimetric Data for UWB Short Range Radar", ,
   IEEE Trans. Geoscience & Remote Sensing, Vol. 56, No.4, pp.2170-2182, Dec., 2017.

3. Shouhei Kidera, Luz Maria Neira, Barry D. Van Veen and Susan C. Hagness,
   "TDOA-Based Microwave Imaging Algorithm for Real-Time Microwave Ablation Monitoring ", ,
   International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, Cambridge University Press., Nov. 2017.

4. Yuta Sasaki, Fang Shang, Shouhei Kidera, Tetsuo Kirimoto, Kenshi Saho and Toru Sato,
   "Three-dimensional Imaging Method Incorporating Range Points Migration and Doppler Velocity Estimation for UWB Millimeter-wave Radar", ,
   IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 122-126, Jan, 2017.

5. Shouhei Kidera and Tetsuo Kirimoto,
   " Fast and Shadow Region 3-dimensional Imaging Algorithm with Range Derivative of Doubly Scattered Signals for UWB Radars", ,
   IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol.60, No. 2, pp. 984--996, Feb, 2012.

6. Shouhei Kidera, Takuya Sakamoto and Toru Sato,
   "Super-Resolution UWB Radar Imaging Algorithm Based on Extended Capon with Reference Signal Optimization",
   IEEE Trans. Antennas & Propagation, vol.59, no. 5, pp.~1606--1615, May, 2011.
7. Shouhei Kidera, Takuya Sakamoto and Toru Sato,
   "Accurate UWB Radar 3-D Imaging Algorithm for Complex Boundary without Range Points Connections",
   IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol.48, no. 4, pp.~1993--2004, Apr., 2010.
8. Shouhei Kidera, Takuya Sakamoto and Toru Sato,
   "High-Resolution 3-D Imaging Algorithm with an Envelope of Modified Spheres for UWB Through-the-Wall Radars",
   IEEE Trans. Antennas & Propagation, vol.57, no.11, pp. 3520--3529, Nov., 2009.
9. Shouhei Kidera, Takuya Sakamoto and Toru Sato,
   "High-resolution and Real-Time 3-D Imaging Algorithm with Envelope of Spheres for UWB Radars" ,
   IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol.46, no.11, pp.3503--3513, Nov, 2008.
10. Shouhei Kidera, Takuya Sakamoto and Toru Sato,
    "A robust and fast imaging algorithm with an envelope of circles for UWB pulse radars",
    IEICE Trans. Commun., vol.E90-B, no.7, pp.1801--1809, Jul, 2007.
11. Shouhei Kidera, Takuya Sakamoto, Toru Sato and Satoshi Sugino,
    "An accurate imaging algorithm with scattered waveform estimation for UWB pulse radars",
    IEICE Trans. Commun., vol. E89-B, no. 9, pp. 2588-2595, Sep, 2006

Professional Awards and Honors

• Feb. 2023 RIEC Award, Tohoku University, Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC)
• Sep. 2022 KDDI Foundation Award, Contribution Award, KDDI Foundation
• Sep. 2021 Distinguished Service Award, Awardee : S. Kidera Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Communications Society
• Mar. 2021 TELECOM System Technology Award, The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation
• Mar. 2021 Distinguished Service Award, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Electronics Society
• Sep. 2016 Distinguished Service Award, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Communications Society
• Apr 19th, 2014 Funai Achievement Award， Funai Foundation for Information Technology
  
• Apr 8th, 2013 The Young Scientist's Prize, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology ，
  
• March 19th, 2013 28th TELECOM System Techonology Award， The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation
  
• March 19th, 2013 2012 IEEE AES Japan Chapter Best Paper Award， IEEE AES Japan Chapter
  
• Jule 30 th, 2012 Ando Incentive Prize for the Study of Electronics, The Foundation of Ando Laboratory
  
• Oct, 27th, 2011 Young Scientist Award, The 2011 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP2011)
  
• Aug, 19th, 2011 Young Scientist Award, The XXX General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) 2011
  
• Aug, 18th, 2010 Young Scientist Award, URSI Commission B, 20th International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory (EMTS) 2010
  
• Mar, 17th, 2010 IEICE Young Researcher's Award
• Aug, 21th, 2008 IEEJ Excellent Presentation Award
• Sep, 25th, 2007 Best Student Paper Award , IEEE International Conference on Ultra Wide-Band 2007

• May, 22th, 2015 "Super-resolution and accurate 3-dimensional Imaging Method by Combining EM Computational Analysis in Short Range UWB Radar"
  1st URSI Atrantic Radio Science Conference (AT-RASC 2015)2015, Gran Canaria, Canary Island, Spain, May, 2015. (Invited talk)

• Nov., 11th, 2014 “Short range UWB radar imaging method,” The 57th Automatic Control Conference, Ikaho, Gunma, Japan. Nov. 2014

• Nov., 28th, 2011 “Near Field Imaging Method for UWB Radar System,” The 4th Trans-disciplinary Federation of Science and Technology Conference, Kanazawa, Japan. Nov. 2011

• Sep., 17th 2010, “Emerging Trend of Imaging Radar Techniques," Technical Lecture on Mitsubishi Advanced Technology R&D Center, Hyogo, Japan. Sep, 2010.

• Nov., 29th, 2008 "Extended Imaging Algorithms for Super-Resolution Radar Techniques,"
  Taiwan-Japan Joint Workshop on Inverse Problem, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, 台北

• 2007年 2月 2日 "Inverse problem in pulse radar imaging techniques,"
  Taiwan-Japan Joint Workshop on Inverse Problem, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, 台北

Major Scientific Grant (selected)

• Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2021. Committee on Advanced Road Technology (CART), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), "Research of Quantitative Complex Permittivity Imaging using microwave radar and tomographic approarch for air crack or steel corrosion recognition", S. Kidera (PI 100 %)

• Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2023. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Scientific Research (B), "Research for Multi-functional Electromagnetic Imaging Analysis by incorporating radar and tomographic approarch", S. Kidera (PI 100 %)

• Apr. 2019 - Mar. 2021. The Canon Foundation, Creation of Industrial Infrastructure, S. Kidera (PI 100 %)

• Oct. 2017 - Mar. 2021. JST PRESTO, “Innovative microwave imaging method by incorporating super-accurate imaging and polarimetric based permittiviy estimation”, S. Kidera (PI 100 %)

• OCt. 2017 - Sep. 2018. JST Regional Industry-Academia Value Program, S. Kidera (PI 100 %)

• Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2019. The Asahi Glass Foundation S. Kidera (PI 100 %)

• Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2020. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Scientific Research (B), "“Research for Super-resolution Non-invasive Biomedical Imaging with UWB Radar", S. Kidera (PI 100 %)

• Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2018. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Scientific Research (B), "Development of Super-resolution Imaging Method for Microwave mammography and ablation treatment", S. Kidera (PI 100 %)

• Jan. 2017 - Mar 2020. Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme(SCOPE) Phase II, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, "Development of Super-resolution Imaging Method for Microwave mammography and ablation treatment", S. Kidera (PI 100 %)

• Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2018. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Scientific Research (B), “Research for Image Expansion Method using Polarimetric and Multiple Scattering Signals for UWB Short Range Radar”, S. Kidera (Co-PI 30%) and T. Kirimoto (PI 70 %)

• Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2017. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in- Aid for Young Scientists (A), “Research for Super-resolution Internal Imaging for UWB sensor”, S. Kidera (PI 100%),

• Sep. 2014 - Mar. 2017. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, “Development for 140 GHz Short Range Radar” S. Kidera (Affiliation PI 100%),

• Sep. 2013 - Mar. 2014. Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme(SCOPE) Phase I, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, “Development of Super-resolution Imaging Method for Non-invasive and Nondestruction UWB Radar" S. Kidera (PI 100%),

• July. 2013 - June. 2014., The Murata Science Foundation, “Development of Super-resolution and Shadow Region Imaging for UWB Radar” Grant amount: 1.9 Million JPY (About $ 19,000), S. Kidera (PI 100%),

• Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2014. The Support Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology Research, Foundation (SCAT), “Development of Far Field and Shadow Region Imaging for UWB Radar” Grant amount: 2.5 Million JPY (About $ 25,000), S. Kidera (PI 100%)

• Apr. 2013 - Mar.2014. Ozawa Yoshikawa Memorial Foundation for Electronics, “Development of Super-resolution Noninvasive Human Body Imaging Method for UWB Radar”, Grant amount: 3.0 Million JPY (About $ 30,000), S. Kidera (PI 100%),

• Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2015. The KDDI Foundation, “Research for Super-resolution Non-invasive Imaging Method Beyond Wavelength for UWB Radar”, Grant amount: 2.8 Million JPY (About $ 28,000), S. Kidera (PI 100%),

• Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2013. Tateishi Science And Technology Foundation “Research for Super-resolution UWB Sensor for Dielectric Medium Using Multiple Scattering Signals”, Grant amount: 2.1 Million JPY (About $ 21,000), S. Kidera (PI 100%),

• Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2013. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grantin- Aid for Young Scientists (B), “Research for Quasi-Near Field and Super-resolution Radar Sensor for Autonomous Robot”, Grant amount: 4.5 Million JPY (About $ 45,000), S. Kidera (PI 100%),

• Apr. 2011 - Mar. 2014. TEPCO Memorial Foundation, Research Grant (Basic Research) “Research for Super-resolution Internal Imaging Method for Dielectric Object for UWB Radar”, Grant amount: 10.0 Million JPY (About $ 100,000), S. Kidera (PI 100%),

• Apr. 2011 - Mar. 2012. The Nakajima Foundation, “Research for Super-resolution Internal Radar Sensor Using Frequency Domain Interferometry of UWB Signal”, Grant amount: 3.0 Million JPY (About $ 30,000), S. Kidera (PI 100%),

• Apr. 2010 - Mar. 2013. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Scientific Research (B), “Research for Super-resolution Radar Technique Using Multiple Scattering Environment for Collision Avoidance Robot”, Grant amount: 14.4 Million JPY (About $ 144,000), S. Kidera (Co-PI 30%) and T. Kirimoto (PI 70 %)

• Apr. 2009 - Mar. 2011. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Research Activity Start-up, “Pioneering Research for Super-resolution UWB Radar Technique”, Grant amount: 2.7 Million JPY (About $ 27,000), S. Kidera (PI 100%),

• Apr. 2007 - Mar. 2009. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grants-in-Aid for JSPS Fellow, “Research for Fast and High-resolution Target Shape Estimation Method for UWB Pulse Radar”, Grant amount: 1.8 Million JPY (About $ 18,000), S. Kidera (PI 100%),

• 2003 - Member of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
• 2005 - Member of Institute of Electrical Engineers in Japan (IEEJ)
• 2005 - Member fo Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• 2013 - 2016, Secretary of Technical Commitee for IEICE SANE (Space Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics).
• 2011 - Present. Secretary of Steering Committee for APSAR (Asia-Pasific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar) 2013,
• 2015 - Present. Chair of Sponsorship Committee for IEEE IGARSS (International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium) 2019,
• 2009 - Present, Expert Member of Technical Commitee for IEICE EMT (Electromagnetic Theory),.

• Shouhei Kidera, Takuya Sakamoto, Toru Sato， (Domestic patent, Patent number.4143728 )
• Shouhei Kidera, Takuya Sakamoto, Toru Sato， (Domestic patent no.2007-185809)