The Speaker：Prof. Motoyuki Sato 佐藤源之 Tohoku University
Time: 8:30am, Nov 11 2016
Location: 物理机电航空大楼438会议室
Biography: Dr. Motoyuki Sato received the B.E., M.E., and Dr. Eng. degrees in information engineering from the Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1980, 1982, and 1985, respectively. Since 1997, he has been a Professor of Tohoku University, and a Distinguished Professor of Tohoku University since 2007, and he was the Director of Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University during 2009–2013. From 1988 to 1989, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Federal German Institute for Geoscience and Natural Resources (BGR), Hannover, Germany. He is a Visiting Professor at Jilin University, Changchun, China, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, and Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. His research interests include transient electromagnetics and antennas, radar polarimetry, ground penetrating radar (GPR), borehole radar, electromagnetic induction sensing, interferometric and polarimetric SAR.
Dr. Sato was a member of the IEEE GRSS AdCom (2006–2014). He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS, and a Guest Editor of the special issue of GPR2006 and GPR2010 in Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, and IGARSS2011, GPR2012, and GPR2014 in IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED ERATH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING. He was the Chair of the IEEE GRSS Japan Chapter (2006–2007). He served as the General Chair of IGARSS2011. He was the recipient of the 2014 Frank Frischknecht Leadership Award from SEG for his contribution to his sustained and important contributions to near-surface geophysics in the field of ground-penetrating radar.
