Takaya Miyazawa, Ph.D.

Research Manager,
Network Architecture Laboratory
Network Research Institute
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

E-mail: takaya-at-nict.go.jp@@i-at- = @j

Japanese page

Research
[2001.4-2007.3]
- Optical Code Division Multiple Access Technologies for Optical Fiber/Atmospheric Communication Systems
[2007.4-2009.3]
- Optical Access Network Technologies
[2009.4-2016.3]
- Optical Packet and Circuit Integrated Network Technologies
[2016.4-]
- Autonomous control of networks/servers

*Keywords: Network Control and Management, Mobile System Power Control, Optical/Quantum Network Control, Time-series Data Analytics

Educational Background
- Bachelor degree of Information & Computer Science from Keio University, Japan, in March 2002.
- Master degree of Open & Environmental Systems from Keio University, Japan, in March 2004.
- Ph.D. degree of Open & Environmental Systems from Keio University, Japan, in March 2006.
- Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Davis, USA, from April 2006 to March 2007 (Prof. S. J. Ben Yoo group).

Work Experience
- Expert(Fixed-term) Researcher at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) from April 2007 to March 2009.
- Researcher at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) from April 2009 to September 2012.
- Senior Researcher at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) from October 2012.
- Deputy Director at Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) from April 2019 to July 2020.
- Senior Researcher at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) from August 2020 to March 2021.
- Research Manager at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) from April 2021.


Honors
- The Certificate for Distinguished Activity for Research Assistant at Keio Information, Electronics and Electrical Engineering Field COE (March-2006).
- The 2007 Hiroshi Ando Memorial Young Engineering Award(June-2007)
- The 2010 Funai Young Researcher Award(April-2010)
- Year 2015 Award of IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network (Takahiro Hirayama, Takaya Miyazawa, Hideaki Furukawa, Hiroaki Harai)
- English Session Award of IEICE Technical Committee on Network Systems (Oct. 2018) (Abu Hena Al Muktadir, Takaya Miyazawa, Pedro Martinez-Julia, Ved P. Kafle, Hiroaki Harai)
- Best Paper Award (The 1st prize) at ITU Kaleidoscope 2018 (Ved P. Kafle, Yusuke Fukushima, Pedro Martinez-Julia, Takaya Miyazawa)
- IEICE Communication Society: Distinguished Contributions Award 2020
- IEICE Communication Society: Distinguished Contributions Award 2021


Patent
- US Patent No.10404616 "Virtual resource automatic selection system and method".
Takaya Miyazawa and Hiroaki Harai
September 3, 2019
(-> Japan Patent P6664812, Takaya Miyazawa and Hiroaki Harai, February 21, 2020.)


Membership
1. Member of IEEE, IEEE Communications Society(ComSoc)
2. Member of IEICE, Japan


Activities
[Ongoing]
- IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board, Information Services Committee, Co-Chair (2024-2025)
- IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Networks (PN), Committee Member (June 2014-)
- Technical Committee (and/or Exhibition Committee) Member for many international conferences
[Past]
- IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board, Information Services Committee, Secretary (2010-2011)
- IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board, Chapters Coordination Committee, Vice Chair (2012-2013)
- IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board, Information Services Committee, Vice Chair (2014-2015)
- IEICE Technical Committee on Network Virtualization (NV), Assistant Secretary (April 2011 - March 2013)
- IEICE Technical Committee on Network Virtualization (NV), Committee Member (April 2013 - March 2015)
- IEICE Technical Committee on Communication Systems (CS), Committee Member (May 2011 - April 2017)
- IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board, Secretary (2016-2017)
- IEICE Technical Committee on Network Virtualization (NV), Secretary (April 2016 - March 2019)
- IEICE Transactions on Communications, Editer (May 2016 - May 2021)
- IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board, Information Services Committee, Vice Chair (2022-2023)