is a Japanese electrical engineer and professor at

Tokyo Institute of Technology is a national research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Tokyo Tech is the largest institution for higher education in Japan dedicated to science and technology, one of first five Designated National University and selected as ...

(since January 2000),

IEEE Fellow As of 2019, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has 5,082 members designated Fellow, each of whom is associated with one of the 41 societies under the IEEE. The Fellow grade of membership is the highest level of membershi ...

.Hirofumi Akagi
IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award
/ref> He received his B.S. degree from

Nagoya Institute of Technology The , abbreviated to Nitech (or in Japanese to 名工大, ''Meikōdai''), is a public highest-level educational institution of science and technology located in Nagoya, Japan. Nitech was founded in 1905 as ''Nagoya Higher Technical School'', then ...

in 1974, and his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1976 and 1979, in all electrical engineering.

Recognition

*2018: IEEE Power Medal Award *2008:

IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award The IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE that was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1986. This award is presented for outstanding contributions in industrial systems engineering. The award may b ...

*Four IEEE Transactions Prize Paper Awards *2004: IEEE Industry Applications Society Outstanding Achievement AwardIAS Outstanding Achievement Award
/ref> *2001: IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award *1996:

ship

References

1952 births Living people Tokyo Institute of Technology alumni Academic staff of Tokyo Institute of Technology Japanese electrical engineers IEEE award recipients Fellow Members of the IEEE {{Japan-engineer-stub