Ichiro Fujieda is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. He attained his BS from Waseda University in 1981 and his MS and PhD degrees from University of California, Berkely in 1984 and 1990, respectively. He is a member of Optica (formerly OSA) and SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.