Pham Tien Dat received the B.Eng. (Hons.) degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering from Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Vietnam, in 2003, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in science of global information and telecommunication studies from Waseda University, Japan, in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He worked as a Researcher at Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications, Vietnam from 2003 to 2006. In 2011, he joined the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, where he is now a Senior Research . His research interests are in the field of microwave/millimeter-wave photonics, radio over fiber and optical wireless systems. Dr. Pham is a member the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).