
at Planning Division, CRL	at MPT	at Emergency Communications Section, CRL

Osamu TAKIZAWA, Ph.D.

Nihongo wa (Japanese version is) koko (here) desu.

Osamu Takizawa was born in Kyoto on January 23, 1962. He received B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Kyoto University in 1985 and 1987, respectively, and Ph.D. in engineering from Osaka University in 1997. In 1987 he joined the Radio Research Laboratory (formerly called Communications Research Laboratory (CRL), now called National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)) of Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) (reorganized as Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications (MPHPT) in Jan.2001), Japan. he has been a senior research scientist of the Intelligent Processing Section at the Kansai Advanced Research Center (a branch of CRL), a senior research official of the Planning Division of CRL, and a deputy director of Technology Development Division, Communications Policy Bureau, MPT. Now he is the director of Public Relations Planning Office of NICT. He is also visiting professor of Tokyo Gakugei University. He received the Shinohara Young Engineer Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan in 1991. He is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan.