Plenary Talks

“High Performance POF toward Next Generation AI Society”

Yasuhiro Koike
Director, Keio Photonics Research Institute (KPRI)
Project Professor and Professor Emeritus, Keio University, Japan

Yasuhiro Koike is highly regarded internationally as the inventor of Graded-Index Plastic Optical fiber (GI POF). He also invented Zero Birefringent Polymer and Super Birefringent Polymer which have been used in major LCD TVs. He was a Core Researcher of the research project of Face-to-Face Communication system based on the above-mentioned technologies on the FIRST Program which was initiated by the Cabinet Office of Japan in 2014. He was a Visiting Researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratory during 1989-1990. He has been serving as General Chair of International POF Conference since 1992. He was conferred as an Honorary Doctorate of Eindhoven University of Technology in 2007. He served as Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington during 2009-2018. He is a recipient of International Engineering and Technology Award of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), and Medal with Purple Ribbon awarded by Emperor of Japan, SID Special Recognition Award, etc.