Takuro SATO received the B.E. and Ph. D. degrees in electronics engineering from Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, in 1973 and 1993, respectively. He joined the Research and Development Laboratories, OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, in 1973, where he was a Senior Research Manager and Research Director with Communication Systems Laboratory. He joined the Niigata Institute of Technology from 1995 as a Professor where his researches focused on CDMA, OFDM, personal communication systems and other related areas. In 2004, he joined GITS, Waseda University, Tokyo, as a professor and currently serving as the Dean.
He has engaged in the research on PCM transmission equipment, mobile communications, data transmission technology, and digital signal processing technology. He has developed wideband CDMA system for personal communication system and joined the PCS standardization committee in the USA and Japan. His contributes are mainly in high speed cellular modem standardization for ITU, 2.4GHz PCS for ITA and wireless LAN technology for IEEE 802.11, etc. He has authored 11 Books and more than 200 papers. His current research interests include Next generation mobile communications, wireless communications, ICN technology, ICT in Smart Grid and their global standardization. He is a fellow of IEEE and IEICE.
