is a

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Tohoku University , or is a Japanese national university located in Sendai, Miyagi in the Tōhoku Region, Japan. It is informally referred to as . Established in 1907, it was the third Imperial University in Japan and among the first three Designated National ...

in Sendai, Japan. He was named a

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

(IEEE) in 2013 for his contributions to satellite systems and network intrusion

detection {{Unreferenced, date=March 2018 In general, detection is the action of accessing information without specific cooperation from with the sender. In the history of radio communications, the term " detector" was first used for a device that detected ...

. Since that year, he is also a fellow of the Vehicular Technology Society. He is also an

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of the Engineering Academy of Japan.

Education and career

Kato obtained M.D. and Ph.D. degrees in

information engineering Information engineering is the engineering discipline that deals with the generation, distribution, analysis, and use of information, data, and knowledge in systems. The field first became identifiable in the early 21st century. The component ...

from

in 1988 and 1991 respectively. From 1991 to 1996 he served as research associate at the Computer Center of the Tohoku University and then became associate professor at the Graduate School of Information Sciences. From 2003 to 2013, Kato was a professor at Tohoku University and after it became special assistant to the university's president. In 2015, Kato became a director of the Research Organization of Electrical Communication and in 2018 became deputy dean of the Graduate School of Information Sciences. From 2010 to 2012, he served as the chair of Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee and from 2014 to 2015 held the same position with the Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks Technical Committee of the

IEEE Communications Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

. He also served as the

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of ''IEEE Network Magazine'' from 2015 to 2017 and was a Member-at-Large on the board of governors of the IEEE Communications Society from 2014 to 2016. Following it, he spent one year as a vice chair on the Fellow Committee of the IEEE Computer Society and until 2017 was a member of IEEE Communications Society Award Committee. Since 2017, Kato serves as chair of the IEEE Communications Society Sendai Chapter and editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Between 2018 and 2021, Kato will serve as vice-president of the IEEE Communications Society. On November 16, 2019, Kato visited

Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (; abbreviation: CQUPT) is a public university in China's fourth largest municipality: Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), ...

, where he read academic report entitled "Deep Learning in Network Traffic Control--How Far We Have Come and Future Challenges".

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* 20th-century births Living people Japanese engineers Tohoku University alumni Tohoku University faculty Fellow Members of the IEEE Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{Japan-engineer-stub