Shigeo Mikoshiba 

Shigeo Mikoshiba received B. Sc. and M. Sc. Degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan in 1965 and 1967. Then he moved to Canada and earned Ph.D. Degree from University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta. in 1971. After the graduation, he joined the Department of Physics , University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC as a Post Doctoral Fellow. In 1973 he returned to Japan to work for Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, and in 1991 he started his career as a professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo. He published two books, 50 refereed papers, and gave seven SID Seminar Talks. He also has about 150 patent applications.

Since he became a member of SID in 1975, he has been involved in various SID activities. Among them are SID Japan Chapter Chair (1997-1998), Japan Chapter Director (1999), IDRC '95 Program Chair, IDW '97 Steering Chair, IDW '99 Organizing Chair, and IDW '00 Conference Chair. He also served or is serving as Associate Editors of Journal of SID and Information Display Magazine.

He received the following awards:

• Eduard Rhein Preise from Eduard Rhein Stiftung, West Germany, by his work on "Gas Discharge Flat Panel Display Developed under Application of the Townsend Effect" (1988)
• SID Special Recognition Award, with the citation, "For his outstanding contributions to the advancement of plasma display technology" (1991)
• SID Fellow Award, with the citation, "For his outstanding contributions to research on plasma displays and for his many years of leadership in the display community (1995)
• Niwa-Takayanagi Prize from Inst. Image Information and Television Engineeers, with the citation, "Establishment of Fundamental Technologies for Thin, High-Resolution, and Large Area Color PDPs" (1997)
• SID President's Citation Award, with the citation, "For his outstanding contributions as Organizing Chair to the success of the 1999 International Display Workshops" (2000)
  Email: mikoshiba@ee.uec.ac.jp