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SEISHIRO KOJIMA (Graduate Student Member,

IEEE) received B.E. degree in electrical and electronic engineering and the M.E. degree in electric

engineering from the University of Kyoto in 2015

and 2017, respectively, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electric engineering. His

current research interests include antenna design,

microwave circuits and beamforming technique for

microwave power transmission. He is a student

member of the Institute of Electronics, Information

and Communication Engineers.

TOMOHIKO MITANI (Member, IEEE) received the

B.E. degree in electrical and electronic engineering, the M.E. degree in informatics, and the

Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Kyoto

University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1999, 2001, and 2006,

respectively, where he was an Assistant Professor

with the Radio Science Center for Space and

Atmosphere in 2003. Since 2012, he has been

an Associate Professor with the Research Institute

for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University.

His current research interests include microwave

heating systems, magentrons, and wireless power transfer systems via

microwaves. He has been the treasurer of IEEE MTT-S Kansai Chapter

since 2014. He is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and

Communication Engineers and the Japan Society of Electromagnetic Wave

Energy Applications (JEMEA). He has been a Board Member of JEMEA

since 2015.

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NAOKI SHINOHARA (Senior

Member, IEEE)

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 with Kyoto University in

1996, where he has been a Professor since 2010.

He has been engaged in research on solar power

station/satellite and microwave power transmission systems. He was a Lecturer of IEEE MTT-S

Distinguish Microwave from 2016 to 2018. His

books include Wireless Power Transfer via Radiowaves (ISTE Ltd. and

Wiley), Recent Wireless Power Transfer Technologies via Radio Waves (ed.,

River Publishers), and Wireless Power Transfer: Theory, Technology, and

Applications (ed., IET), and some Japanese text books on WPT. He is a

Former Chair of the IEEE MTT-S Technical Committee 25 (Wireless Power

Transfer and Conversion), a TPC Member of the IEEE MTT-S Kansai

Chapter, a Founder and an Advisory Committee Member of the IEEE

Wireless Power Transfer Conference, a Vice Chair of URSI Commission

D, an Executive Editor of International Journal of Wireless Power Transfer

(Cambridge Press), the First Chair and a Technical Committee Member

on IEICE Wireless Power Transfer, an adviser to the Japan Society on

Electromagnetic Wave Energy Applications, the Vice Chair of the Space

Solar Power Systems Society, and the Chair of the Wireless Power Transfer

Consortium for Practical Applications (WiPoT) and the Wireless Power

Management Consortium.

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