Hideaki Kimura received the B.E. and M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, in 1987, 1989, and 1992, respectively. In 1992, he joined NTT LSI Laboratories, Kanagawa, Japan, where he engaged in research on package design for 100Gb/s level high-frequency wideband ICs and high-sensitivity receiver module design for optical subscriber systems. From 1996, he has been engaged in research on super-low-power transceiver module for optical subscriber system, system design and basic technologies such as 1V-operation-super-small-size ONU and no-power-supply voice communication service for black out situation due to disaster. From 2003 to 2005, he was engaged in personnel business at personnel department of NTT East Corporation. From 2006, he has been researched future optical access network systems based on WDM and DSP. From 2010 to 2012, he was an executive research engineer at research & development planning section. Now he is a general manager of 1st promotion project.
