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Takamichi Nakamoto received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his
Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
He worked for Hitachi in the area of VLSI design automation from 1984 to 1987. In 1987, he joined the
Tokyo Institute of Technology as a Research Associate. In 1993, he became an Associate Professor with
the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 1996 to
1997, he was a Visiting Scientist at Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Richland, WA, USA. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Physical Electronics, Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research interests cover chemical sensing systems, acoustic wave sensors, neural networks,
virtual reality, and ASIC design.
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Oluwakemi Ademoye received a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science, in 1996, from the University
of Benin, Nigeria. She then received a M.Sc. degree in Distributed Information Systems, and a Ph.D.
degree in Information Systems and Computing from Brunel University, United Kingdom, in 2002 and
2008, respectively. Her field of research interest is focused on olfactory enhanced media and its use in
virtual and augmented reality environments.
James Covington is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick. He received his BEng in 1996 in Electronic Engineering and his PhD in 2000. His PhD was on
the development of CMOS and SOI CMOS gas sensors for room temperature and high temperature
operation. He worked as a research fellow for both Warwick University and Cambridge University on
the development of gas and chemical sensors, and was appointed as a Lecturer in 2002, being promoted
to Associate Professor in 2006. His current research interests focus on the development of silicon devices with novel materials using CMOS and SOI ASIC technology (nose-on-a-chip), and biologically
inspired neuromorphic devices with applications based on environmental and biomedical engineering.
Jean-Jacques Delaunay was born on April 18, 1967. He received the Engineer degree from Strasbourg
National School of Engineering and his Ph.D. degree from the University Louis Pasteur. He worked
for NTT laboratories on various projects associated with the applications of new materials. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo. His research interests include the fabrication
of sensors involving self-assembly (nanowires on film for water splitting, bridging nanowires for UV,
cobalt-filled graphitic cages for storage) and the use of surface plasmons on subwavelength metallic
structures for volatile molecule detection.
About the Contributors
Matteo Falasconi received his degree in Physics (summa cum laude) in 2000 from the University
of Pavia. In 2005, he obtained a PhD degree in Materials Engineering from the University of Brescia.
At present, he is a member of the research staff of the SENSOR Lab at the University of Brescia. His
research interests include chemical sensor devices and statistical data analysis for electronic noses. He
is the author of 20 journal papers in the field of artificial olfaction and many contributions in topical
conferences.
Jordi Fonollosa obtained the degrees in Physics (2002) and in Electronic Engineering (2007) and
received his PhD in Engineering and Electronics Technologies (2009) from the University of Barcelona.
His main areas of expertise include electronic instrumentation, sensors, and data processing for smart
sensing.
Tadashi Fukawa graduated Bachelor of Engineering in 1995 from Osaka University and Master
of Materials Science in 1997 from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He has been
a Researcher at Shinshu University since 2007, where he is working on the research and development
of organic photovoltaic cell and organic nanomaterials for VOC sensor. He is also a Researcher at the
Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Julian Gardner has received degrees from Birmingham University (BSc, First Class), Cambridge
University (PhD in Electronics), and Warwick University (DSc in Engineering), UK. He is Professor of
Electronic Engineering in the School of Engineering at Warwick University, UK. He is a Fellow of both
the Institute of Engineering and Technology and the Royal Academy of Engineering, and has worked
with more than 25 companies in the past 20 years developing CMOS gas sensors and electronic noses.
He is an author of over 450 publications and more than 10 books. His is founder and head of the Warwick
Microsensors and Bioelectronics Group within the School of Engineering. His research interests include
the fields of smart sensors, biomimetic MEMS devices, and artificial olfaction. From 2009-2011, he was
President of the International Society for Olfaction and Chemical Sensors.
Gheorghita Ghinea received the B.Sc. and B.Sc. (Hons) degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics in 1993 and 1994, respectively, and the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 1996, from the
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; he then received the Ph.D. degree in
Computer Science from the University of Reading, United Kingdom, in 2000. He is a Reader in the
School of Information Systems, Computing, and Mathematics at Brunel University, United Kingdom. Dr.
Ghinea has over 100 refereed publications and currently leads a team of 8 research students in his fields
of interest, which span perceptual multimedia, semantic media management, human computer interaction, and network security. He has co-edited four books including two on digital multimedia perception
and design and multiple sensorial media advances and applications: new developments in mulsemedia.
Scott Gluck received a B.S. degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a M.S.
degree from the University of Southern California, in 1985 and 1994, respectively, both in Computer
Science. He has worked on numerous missions and received a number of NASA achievement awards
while working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, since joining in 1990. The projects he has
contributed on include the ground data systems for the Electronic Nose, Tropospheric Emission Spec-
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trometer (TES), Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR), and the All Source Analysis System
(ASAS) support processing. He is currently the system software engineer for the TES ground data system.
Fauzan Che Harun received his B.Eng degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 2003. He then continued his studies in the area of Biomedical
Electronic Engineering at University of Warwick, UK, where he was awarded an MSc in Advanced
Electronic Engineering in 2005 and a PhD in Engineering in 2010. His research interests are mainly, but
not restricted to, biomedical electronics, biologically-inspired micro-systems, biosensors, and MEMS/
NEMS. Currently, he is Head of Department at the Therapy and Rehabilitation Department, Faculty of
Health Science and Biomedical Engineering, UTM, and Researcher at the BioMedical and Instrumentation Electronics (bMIE), Infocomm Research Alliance, UTM.
Yuchiro Hashimoto was born in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, in 1972. He received the B.S., M.S.,
and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from the University of Tokyo. He has been a Chief Scientist of Mass
Spectrometry Research Group in the Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., since 2009. His research
fields are mass spectrometry and its application researches such as forensic and medical applications.
Kenshi Hayashi was born in Fukuoka, Japan, and has received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees
in Electrical Engineering from Kyushu University, in 1984, 1986, and 1990, respectively. He is now a
Professor at the Department of Electronics, School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering,
Kyushu University. He belongs to graduate school of systems life sciences. His research interests are
taste and odor sensors, odor imaging, nanomaterials, biometrics, electrochemical analysis, and surface
science. Bio-inspired technologies are the basis of his research. Multichannel taste sensor, odor code
sensor, odor clustering sensing, and odor image sensor depending on original transducer technologies
have been invented through the research.
Michitaka Hirose is a Professor of Human Interface at the Graduate School of Information Science
and Technology and Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), the University
of Tokyo. His research interests include enhanced human interface, interactive computer graphics, wearable computer, and virtual reality. He received his B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering and M.E. and
Ph.D. degrees in Mechano-Informatics from the University of Tokyo.
Margie L. Homer is a Senior Technologist and currently the PI for the Rapid Analysis, Self-Calibrating Array Project at JPL. She was the co-investigator for the JPL ENose flight demonstration on
the International Space Station. Her work on the ENose has included sensing film development, sensor
design and testing, and data analysis. Work on sensing film development included optimization and testing of polymer-carbon composite films. She obtained a B.A. in Chemistry from Swarthmore College,
Pennsylvania in 1985 and then a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of California at Los
Angeles in 1993.
Junichi Ide is the Principal Research Chemist with Technical Research Institute R&D Center of
T. Hasegawa Co., Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan. He received the Master’s degree from Department of Food
Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, in 1977. His research interests are
fusion of olfactory and visual information, sensory evaluation, and pattern analysis.
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Tsuyoshi Ikehara received his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Tohoku University, Japan,
in 1988 and 1993, respectively. From 1993 to 1999, he worked at the Micromachining Laboratory of
Yokogawa Electric Corp., where he designed silicon pressure sensors and other microdevices. In 1999,
he joined the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), where his current interests include the material property characterization of silicon and resonant type microsensors.
Dr. Ikehara is a member of IEEE, the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, and the Japan Society
of Mechanical Engineers.
Hiroshi Ishida was born in Morgantown, WV, in 1970. He received the Master of Engineering and
Doctor of Engineering degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. From 1997 to 2004, he has been a Research
Associate with the Department of Physical Electronics, Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 1998 to
2000, he was with Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of
Chemistry and Biochemistry. In 2004, he joined the Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, as an Associate Professor, and currently holds the
same position in Department of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering. In 2007, he was a Visiting
Researcher in the Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems, Örebro University, Sweden. His
research interests are in biomimetic mechatronics with emphasis on chemical sensing systems and their
applications in robotics.
Dong Wook Kim received the B.I.S. degree in Cultural Information Resources from Surugadai University, Saitama, Japan, in 2004, and the M.I.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Knowledge Science from Japan
Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Ishikawa, Japan, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. From 2004 to 2009, he majored in olfactory display, focusing on the controlled release of aroma
molecules. Since 2009, he has been an Expert Researcher with the National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology (NICT), Kyoto, Japan. His current research interests include temporal and
spatial control of aroma molecules for olfactory display, cross-modal perception, emotion and sensibility
information processing, and multi-sensory interaction systems integrating four senses.
Mutsumi Kimura graduated Bachelor of Agriculture in 1990 and Master of Environmental Science
in 1992, both from Tsukuba University. He completed his Doctor of Engineering in 1995 from Shinshu
University. He became a Research Associate of Shinshu University in 1995 and has been an Associate
Professor at Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University, since 2003. From 2002 to
2005, he was a PRESTO Researcher of JST. His research interests cover organic and inorganic nanomaterials, functional polymer chemistry, self-organized soft materials, and smart textiles.
Adam K. Kisor received a B.A. in Cognitive Science and Visual Arts from the University of California,
San Diego. Since coming to JPL in 1992, he has worked on advanced power conversion technologies
and chemical sensor development. He is currently working on design, fabrication, and testing of fuel
cell and electrolyzer devices.
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Mitsuo Konno was born in Iwate, Japan, on October 15, 1943. He worked in the field of microwave
research and developments at the Toshiba Corporation from 1970 to 2005. Since 2005, he is a Visiting
Researcher at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He worked in
analysis and development of disk-type MEMS resonator for sensor application form 2005 to 2011. He
received a Ph. D degree in Electrical Communication Engineering form Tohoku University in 1998.
Liana M. Lara received a BS in Fisheries from the University of Washington in 2000. On the JPL
ENose project, she worked on fabricating and testing sensors, building and maintaining the gas delivery
systems, collecting data, and troubleshooting instrumentation software. At JPL, she also worked with the
Alkali Metal Thermal to Electric Converter (AMTEC) group, building and testing AMTECs. In 2010,
she received a Masters in Business Administration from the California State University Los Angeles
and is currently supporting the JPL Thermoelectrics group.
Graeme Lowe earned his PhD in Biophysics in 1987 at the California Institute of Technology, analyzing the mechanism of flagellar motility in the chemotactic behavior of bacterial cells. He engaged
in postdoctoral studies at Yale University and the Monell Chemical Senses Center, focusing on the
physiology of chemo-electrical transduction and the role of cyclic AMP in olfactory sensory neurons
of amphibians and mammals. In 1998, he joined the faculty at Monell and established a laboratory to
investigate signaling properties of dendrites and synapses of neurons in the mammalian olfactory bulb.
His current research program is aimed at understanding basic mechanisms of a range of olfactory system
functions, including neural synchronization, neuromodulation, plasticity, and odor mixture interactions,
in the olfactory bulb.
Ryutaro Maeda, Doctor of Engineering, joined to Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Agency of
Advanced Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba in 1980, after finishing Master course in Graduate
School of Tokyo University. He is currently Director of UMEMSME (Research Centre of Ubiquitous
MEMS and Micro Engineering) in AIST. He also works as Visiting Professor at Shanghai Jiaoton University since 2011. He has published more than 200 papers on MEMS and Nanoimprint, especially thin
film actuators and 3D micro manufacturing, and his current research interest is application of wireless
networked sensing for energy and safety management.
Kenneth S. Manatt received a B.S. degree in Earth Sciences from the University of California, Santa
Cruz. Since coming to JPL in 1983, Ken has been involved in a number of flight projects as well as
independent instrument development efforts. These missions include Voyager-Neptune, Cassini, PhoenixMECA, Delta-183, and the Russian Mars 96 MOx instrument. He was the Lead Electronics Engineer
on the JPL ENose team responsible for electronic design and fabrication. He has proved an asset to the
project since the beginning, when he made significant contributions to the electronic design of the first
and second generation instruments. He is currently helping to develop the PanFTS Mechanism thermal
test system and develops custom electronic solutions for PanFTS’s unique challenges.
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Santiago Marco is Titular Professor at the Electronics Department in the University of Barcelona
(UB) since 1995. He obtained his degree in and his PhD in Physics from the UB in 1988 and 1993,
respectively. In 1994, he was a post-doc at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” working on Data Processing for Artificial Olfaction. In 2004, he was in a sabbatical leave at the EADS-Corporate Research
in Munich working in Ion Mobility Spectrometry.
Haruka Matsukura was born in Tochigi, Japan, in 1987. She received the Bachelor of Engineering
and Master of Engineering degrees in Mechanical Systems Engineering from the Tokyo University of
Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2009 and 2010, respectively. She is currently pursuing
the Doctor of Engineering degree in the same institution. Her research interests are in olfactory displays
and olfactory sensing systems for virtual reality applications.
Takashi Mihara received his MS degrees in Physics from Tokyo University of Science, Japan, in
1981. He worked on high-speed bipolar devices and ultra-high-speed ECL memories for super computer
at Hitachi LSI system Corp. Since 1988, he worked on versatile BiCMOS with V-PNP, fatigue-free ferroelectric memories, and chemical sensor system using MEMS microcantilever in Olympus Corp. Now, he
is a Director General of MEMS Industry Forum, PR and Promotion Dept., and MNOIC Strategy Planning
Dept. Micromachine Center in Japan. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1996.
Yuta Munakata received the Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Sophia University in 2010. He is currently a Master course student in Department of Information Science, Sophia
University.
Sunao Murakami was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1978. He received the Ph. D. degree in Chemical
Engineering from Kyushu University, Japan, in 2007. Since April 2008, he has been a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute (AMRI) and the Research Center for Ubiquitous
MEMS and Micro Engineering (UMEMSME) of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan, in the research field of Microelectromechanical System (MEMS).
His current main research interests are the areas of the MEMS including silicon microresonators and
glass microchemical reactor systems.
Hisashi Nagano was born in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, in 1967. He graduated from Kumamoto
Technical High School. He is a Senior Researcher of the Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd. His
research fields are mass spectrometry and environmental monitoring. He managed the field test at train
station.
Akio Nakamura is the Senior Food Technologist with Technical Research Institute R&D Center of
T. Hasegawa Co., Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan. He received the Ph.D degree in Agricultural and Life Science
at the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2010. His research interests include physiological responses to
flavors and aromas, chemosensory perception.
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Noritaka Nakaso received BS degree in Materials Science from Hiroshima University, Hiroshima,
Japan, in 1985, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in
1995. From 1985, he has been employed at Technical Research Institute of Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.,
Saitama, Japan, where he is currently a team leader. His current interests include study of ball SAW
device from 2000. Dr. Nakaso received the 1989 Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Transaction on
Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control on a study of ultrasonic micro spectrometer, and he
received the 2000 Best Paper Award of the Japanese Society for Non-Destructive Inspection.
Kenichi Okada received B.S., M.E., and Ph.D degrees in Instrumentation Engineering from Keio
University, in 1973, 1975, and 1982, respectively. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Information and Computer Science at Keio University. His research interests include CSCW, group ware,
human-computer interaction, and mobile computing. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, and IPSJ. He
was a chairman of SIGGW, a chief editor of the IPSJ Journal, and an editor of IEICE Transactions. Dr.
Okada received the IPSJ Best Paper Award in 1995, 2001, 2008, as well as the IPSJ 40th Anniversary
Paper Award in 2000.
Sigeru Omatu, Professor, Department of Electronics, Information and Communication, Faculty of
Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Osaka Prefecture University and joined the faculty at University of Tokushima in 1969.
He was Professor of University of Tokushima in 1988 and Professor of Osaka Prefecture University in
1995. He has been Professor of Osaka Institute of Technology since 2010. His honors and awards include the Best Paper Awards, IEE of Japan, 1991, SICE, Japan, 1995. Furthermore, he received Ichimura
Distinguished Award for Intelligent Classification, New Technology Development Foundation, 1996,
SICE Fellow and IEEJ Outstanding Achievement Award, 2005. He used to be the President of ISCIA
(Institute of Systems, Control, and Information Association, Japan) in 2007 and President of Electronics,
Information, and Systems Society, IEEJ, 2004-2006, Regional Editor of EAAI (IFAC Journal) for 19982001, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks for 1993-2003, and IMA Journal of
Mathematical Control and Information (Oxford University Press) since 1991. His research area covers
intelligent signal processing, pattern recognition, intelligent control, and adaptive control.
Marta Padilla received a degree in Physics from the University of La Laguna in 1999 and a degree
in Electronic Engineering from University of Barcelona (UB) in 2003. Later, she joined the ISPlab (UB)
and obtained her PhD in Engineering and Electronics Technologies in 2010.
Matteo Pardo received a degree in Physics (summa cum laude) in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Computer
Engineering in 2000. Since 2002, he is a Researcher of the National Research Council (CNR). He was
at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin with a Von Humboldt Fellowship and was
the Technical Chair of the International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose 2009. His research
interest is data analysis and in particular the applications of pattern recognition techniques to artificial
olfaction and genomics. Since 2011, he is the Scientific Attaché at the Italian Embassy in Berlin.
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Margaret Amy Ryan holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst. Her work has included basic and applied research in the areas of electrochemical and photoelectrochemical energy conversion, thermal-to-electric energy conversion, and chemical sensing. At
JPL, she was the Principal Investigator on the NASA Electronic Nose Technology Development and
ISS Demonstration. She is retired from JPL.
Minoru Sakairi received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Tokyo in 1979,
1981, and 1989, respectively. During 1989-1990, he was a Guest Researcher at the National Institutes of
Health (U.S.). He is Research Director of Life Science Research Laboratory, Central Research Laboratory,
Hitachi, Ltd. He was awarded the Nikkei Global Environmental Technology Award (2000), the Okochi
Memorial Technology Award (2000), the Ichimura Industrial Award (2007), and the Commendation
for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology,
Development Category (2008).
Giorgio Sberveglieri received his degree in Physics cum laude from the University of Parma (Italy),
where in 1971 he started his research activities on the preparation of semiconductor thin film solar cells.
In 1994, he was appointed Full Professor in Physics. He is Director of SENSOR Lab since its establishment in 1987 at the Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Brescia. His work has had a
significant impact at the international level in the field of metal oxide semiconductors, mainly for gas
sensing and artificial olfaction applications. He is author of more than 380 publications (h-index: 39)
cited more than 6,000 times, 9 patents, one book, and four book chapters.
Michiko Seyama received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Applied Chemistry from Waseda University
in 1995 and 1997, respectively. She entered NTT in 1997 and worked on sensor systems for environmental monitoring, odor sensing based on plasma-deposited organic films, and SPR sensors related
with bio-molecules including G-protein coupled receptors and olfactory receptors. She also studies the
microfluidic device combined with the SPR sensor for on-site biosensing. She received Ph.D degree
from Waseda University in 2004. She is a member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) and
the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Vivek Shetty is a Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Assistant Vice Chancellor for
Research at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). A clinician-scientist by training, his
translational research program is defined by the significant burden of traumatic stress-related psychiatric
sequelae in vulnerable population. His transdisciplinary collaborations focus on the synergistic application of emerging technologies to the development of decision support systems for screening, early
detection, and management of mental health disorders. Professor Shetty’s research has been supported
by the National Institutes of Health for the past 18 years, and he serves as a scientific reviewer for
several research agencies and specialty journals. Dr. Shetty graduated from the University of Bombay,
completed his specialty training and research doctorate at the University of Regensburg, Germany, and
his fellowship training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and UCLA, respectively.
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Abhijit V. Shevade received his B.Chem.Eng. and M.Chem.Eng. degrees in Chemical Engineering
from the University Department of Chemical Technology, University of Bombay, India, in 1993 and
1996, respectively. He received a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Kansas State University, USA,
in 2001. He was a Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar Resident at JPL from 2001-2003. On the JPL ENose
project, he worked on the sensing materials selection and sensor response modeling aspects. His research
interests include development and application of molecular/multiphysics modeling and simulation tools
in combination with experimental approaches for design and characterization of materials, including:
organic (e.g., polymers/polymer composites), inorganic (e.g., heterogeneous catalysts), biomimetic (e.g.,
self-assembly molecules, molecular imprinted materials). Applications include micro/nano chemical/
biological sensors and energy generation and storage devices.
Iwao Sugimoto received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Synthetic Chemistry and Ph. D. degree in Molecular
Engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1983, 1985, and 1991, respectively. In 1985, he
joined NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation), where he was engaged in artificial olfaction in connection with sensor networks. He moved to Tokyo University of Technology in 2002. He is
a Professor of School of Computer Science. His research activity focuses on the formation and properties of organic sensing layers for environmental monitoring. A range of vacuum and plasma techniques
have been used to prepare sensing layers with interactive structures. His main interest is revealing the
sorption-desorption behaviors of smell molecules based on quantitative structure property relationships.
Sayumi Sugimoto received her B.S. degree from the Department of Information and Computer Science at Keio University, Japan, in 2009. She is currently working toward an M.S. degree in Open and
Environment Systems at Keio University. Her current research interests include olfactory information
and its use in multimedia.
Masuyuki Sugiyama was born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, in 1978. He received the B.S., M.S.,
and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from Tohoku University. He is a Researcher of the Central Research
Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd. His research fields are mass spectrometry and its application. His current work
is instrumentation development of the ion trap mass spectrometer.
Yasuaki Takada was born in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, in 1965. He received the B.S. and M.S. degree in Physics from Shizuoka University and Kyushu University, respectively. He received the Ph.D.
degree in Applied Chemistry from The University of Tokyo. He is a Senior Researcher of the Central
Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd. His research fields are mass spectrometry and environmental monitoring. His current research is quick detection of explosives, illicit drugs, and chemical warfare agents
by mass spectrometry. He was a research representative of the R&D program for the development of
the walkthrough detection portal system operated by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science, and Technology, Japan) in 2007-2009.
Tomohiro Tanikawa received his B.E. degree from the Department of Engineering Synthesis, the
University of Tokyo in 1997, and M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Mechano-Informatics,
the University of Tokyo in 1999 and 2002, respectively. From 2002 to 2004, he worked as a Project
Researcher for NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology). He has been
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affiliated with the University of Tokyo since 2005, and he now is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate
School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo. His research focuses on developing a high-level user interface using technologies of virtual reality, mixed reality, human-computer
interaction, multimodal interface, and image-based rendering.
Akira Tomono received the B.E. and the M.E. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Yamanashi
University, Japan, in 1974 and 1976, respectively, and the Dr. Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering
from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1994. In 1976, he joined the Electrical Communication
Laboratories of NTT, Japan. From 1987 to 1991, he was at Advanced Telecommunication Research
Institute International (ATR), Kyoto, Japan. He has been a Professor at the Department of Information Media Technology, Tokai University, since 2000. His research interests include human interface,
ergonomics, and virtual reality. Dr. Tomono is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information,
and Communication Engineers of Japan. He received the 1994 Best Paper Award from the Institute of
Television Engineers and the 2003 Japan Society for Engineering Education Award.
Mitsuo Tonoike of Japan was born in Manchu in China in 1944. He graduated from Department
of Physics, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, in Japan, in 1967. He acquired Doctor Degree of
Engineering (Ph.D) from Osaka University in 1985. He has tried to apply the engineering techniques,
physics, and artificial sensors to measure and analyze human sensing objectively in Electro-Technical
Laboratory (ETL), in Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in Japan since about 1980. He
started to study the bio-science fields, especially the research of human olfaction by using the techniques
of a few non-invasive measurements (EEG, MEG, f-MRI, and so on) and an artificial odorant sensor
system. Now, he belongs to Department of Medical Engineering, Faculty of Nursing and Rehabilitation, in Aino University, since in 2011 as a Professor, through a Professor of Faculty of Engineering and
CFME Center in Chiba University from 2003 to 2010.
Bartosz Wyszynski received his ME and PhD degrees from Department of Chemical Technology
and Engineering, Technical University of Szczecin, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. In 2001, he was
a Research Assistant in Technical University of Szczecin. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Postdoctoral
Researcher at Tokyo Institute of Technology under fellowship from Japan Society for the Promotion
of Science. Currently, he is a Researcher in Tokyo Institute of Technology. His main research interests
are psychophysiology of olfaction, artificial olfaction and chemical sensing, environmental impact of
odors, and odor control policies.
Masuyoshi Yamada was born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, in 1968. He received the B.Eng., M.Eng.,
and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tokyo. He is a Senior Researcher
of the Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd. His research fields are mass spectrometry and its application for forensic science and environmental monitoring.
Masaki Yamaguchi was born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1963. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in
Engineering from Shinshu University, Japan, in 1985 and 1987. He joined the Research Laboratory of
Brother Industries, Ltd., Japan, in 1987. He received the Doctoral degree in Engineering from Shinshu
University in 1994. He started as an Assistant Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology,
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Japan, in 1995. Since 1999, he has been an Associate Professor in Faculty of Engineering at University
of Toyama, Japan. He is currently working as a Professor in Graduate School of Engineering at Iwate
University, Japan, since 2008. He coauthored 16 books, 93 refereed scientific and technical papers, and
11 US patents concerning electromagnetic actuators, medical sensors, robotics, and their applications.
His primary research interests focus on the development of noninvasive medical sensors and robotics.
Takao Yamanaka received the Bachelor of Engineering, the Master of Engineering, and the Ph.D.
in Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1996, 1998, and 2004, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia
University, Japan. His research interests include sensory information processing, intelligent sensing
systems, and pattern recognition.
Yasuyuki Yanagida is a Professor in the Department of Information Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan. He received B.E., M.E., and Dr. Eng. degrees
in Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics from the University of Tokyo in 1988, 1990, and
2000, respectively. Yanagida was a Research Associate at the University of Tokyo from 1990 to 2001
and a Senior Researcher at Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto,
Japan from 2001 to 2005. His research interests include virtual reality, telexistence, and interactive
interfaces that make use of various sensory modalities.
Shiao-Ping S. Yen received a B.S. in Chemistry from National Taiwan Normal University (1954)
and a M.S. in Polymer Chemistry from the University of Akron (1958). She was a Ph.D. candidate at
the Case Institute of Technology (1958-1959) and a Fellow in the Fundamental Research Division at
the Carnegie Mellon University (1959-1968). She received an Honorary D.Sc in Polymer Sciences
from Pepperdine University, Malibu, California in 1985. Since 1969, she has been at JPL. For the JPL
ENose project, she was responsible for synthesizing and formulating polymer based composite sensing
films. Her research interests include: polymer synthesis and material characterization, high temperature
polymers, anionic polymerization using organometallic initiator polyelectrolytes, electronic and ionic
conductors, immuno-reagents, lithium battery electrolyte and electrodes, dielectric materials for high
energy density capacitors, polymeric materials for microelectronics.
Hanying Zhou is a member of the JPL ENose team. She develops data analysis programs to deconvolute the patterns of the JPL ENose distributed response. She received her M. S. in Optical Engineering
from Zhejiang University, China, in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania
State University in 1995. Between 1988 and 1990, she was a Research Scientist at Shanghai Institute
of Fine Optics and Mechanics, Academia Sinica. Since 1998, she has been with JPL, where her main
research interests include optical pattern recognition and holographic memory.
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