Tadashi Nakano (male), First Time FET Participant, is an Associate Professor of the Institute of Academic Initiatives, Osaka University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. degree in Information Systems Engineering from Osaka University in 2002. He later worked in the Department of Computer Science, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, where he was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar from 2002 to 2007 and an Assistant Adjunct Professor from 2007 to 2009. From 2009 to 2013, he was an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. Since 2013, he has been an Associate Adjunct Professor of the Institute of Academic Initiatives, Osaka University, and a Visiting Associate Professor of the Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Osaka University.
He is currently serving as the Chair of the Emerging Technologies Initiative for Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications. He is also serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-scale Communications (T-MBMC), an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience (TNB), and an Editor of Elsevier Nano Communication Networks. He has been engaged in research at the intersection of computer science and biology, including design, implementation, and evaluation of molecular communication systems, synthetic biological systems, and biologically inspired systems. Leader of IEEE Communications Society – Emerging Technologies Initiative for Biological and Multiscale Communications (ComSoc).