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ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, Volume 2 (2021), Issue 6

Masashi Iwabuchi received B.S. Tomoki Murakami received
and M.S. degrees from the Tokyo B.E., M.E., and Dr.Eng. degrees
Institute of Technology, Tokyo, from Waseda University, Japan
Japan, in 2008 and 2010, in 2006, 2008, and 2015. In
respectively. From 2010 to 2008, he joined Nippon
2016, he joined the NTT Access Telegraph and Telephone
Network Service Systems Corporation (NTT), Yokosuka,
Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph Japan. He is currently a
and Telephone Corporation research engineer in the
(NTT). From 2016 to 2019, he Wireless Access Systems
joined NTT DOCOMO, Inc. Since 2019, he has been Project. His current research interests are high
with NTT again. His current interests are in smart efficiency technologies for future wireless systems.
repeaters and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces He received the Young Engineer Award from the
technologies for 5G evolution and 6G. He received IEICE in 2010, the Active Research Award from
the Young Engineers Award from the Institute of IEICE AP (Antenna and Propagation) in 2010, the
Electronics, Information and Communication Best Tutorial Paper Award from IEICE
Engineers (IEICE) in 2015. He is a member of the Communications society in 2014, the Best Paper
IEICE. Award and the KIYASU-Zen’iti Award from the
IEICE in 2015, and the Best Paper Award from IEICE
on AP in 2016. He is a member of IEEE and IEICE.

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