Ippei Akita received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electronic and information engineering from Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan, in 2003, 2005, and 2008, respectively.In 2008, he joined Toshiba Corporation, where he was engaged in the development of AD/DA converters and OEICs for wireless and wireline communication systems. In 2011, he returned to Toyohashi University of Technology as an Assistant Professor, where he worked on low-power neural interface circuits and flexible thin-film packaging technologies for brain–computer interface (BCI) systems. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he developed power management units (PMUs) and signal processing algorithms for implantable neural devices. Since 2018, he has been with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), where he is currently a Chief Senior Researcher. He has also been affiliated with Aichi Steel Corporation since 2023 and with Institute of Science Tokyo as a Visiting Professor since 2026. His current research interests include sensor and analog/mixed-signal LSI design for several applications. Dr. Akita was a Technical Program Committee member of the International Conference on Solid-State Devices and Materials (SSDM) from 2014 to 2018, serving as the Area 5 Vice Chair in 2016 and Chair in 2017. He is currently a member of the International Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). |
| Degree's thesis |
| Low-voltage wide-dynamic range CMOS log domain filter using companding technique, Ph.D. in Eng. at Toyohashi University of Technology, March 2008. |
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| Keywords |
| Magnetometers, Biosensors, Pressure sensors, Accelerometers, Neural interfaces, Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), Cyclic voltammetry (CV), Switched-capacitor DC-DC converters, Low-dropout (LDO) regulators, Li-ion battery chargers, Compressed sensing, Thin-film flexible devices, Instrumentation amplifiers (IAs), Digital-to-analog converters (DACs), Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), optical transceivers, transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs), Analog filters, Operational amplifiers, etc. |