Profile

Takao Kihara received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 2005, 2006, and 2009, respectively. He was with the Renesas Electronics Corp., Japan, from 2009 to 2014, where he was developing LTE/WCDMA CMOS transmitters and Bluetooth low energy CMOS receivers. Since 2014, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan. His current research interests include direct-RF sampling receivers.