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Hiraku Okada

received the B.S., M.S.

and Ph.D. degrees in Information Electronics

Engineering from Nagoya University, Japan in

1995, 1997 and 1999, respectively. From 1997

to 2000, he was a Research Fellow of the Japan

Society for the Promotion of Science. He was an

Assistant Professor at Nagoya University from

2000 to 2006, an Associate Professor at Niigata

University from 2006 to 2009, and an Associate

Professor at Saitama University from 2009 to

2011. Since 2011, he has been an Associate Professor at Nagoya University. His current research interests include wireless

communication systems, wireless networks, inter-vehicle communications,

and visible light communication systems. He received the Inose Science

Award in 1996, the IEICE Young Engineer Award in 1998, the IEICE Communications Society ComEX Best Letter Award in 2014, and the IEEE

CCNC Best Paper Award in 2020. Dr. Okada is a member of IEEE and

ACM.

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