Ryuji Yokokawa's Biography

Ryuji Yokokawa, Associate Professor, Department of Micro Engineering, Kyoto University

Ryuji Yokokawa is an Associate Professor at Department of Micro Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, and a Visiting Researcher at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Japan. He received his Ph.D. degree in Department of Electrical Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 2005. He was a visiting student in Prof. C.J. Kim's group, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (2000–2001) and a visiting scholar with Prof. S. Takayama, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan (2011–2012).

He has authored or co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed journal and 120 conference papers, 1 book chapter, and has 5 patents issued or pending. He has served as a technical or organizing committee member in international conferences including Transducers, MicroTAS, IEEE NEMS, MEMS, Sensors and NANOMED.