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Place of Birth: Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
About Masayoshi Esashi
- Masayoshi Esashi (?? ??, Esashi Masayoshi, born January 30, 1949 Sendai, Miyagi) is an engineer.
- He is a global authority of Microelectromechanical systems and serves as the professor of the Tohoku University graduate school engineering graduate course.Born in Sendai, Japan, in 1949, Masayoshi Esashi received his B.E.
- degree in electronic engineering in 1971 and a Doctor of Engineering degree in 1976 at Tohoku University. Esashi served as a research associate from 1976 and an associate professor from 1981 at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tohoku University.
- Since 1990 he has been a professor.
- Currently, he is the director of micro/nanomachining research and education center in Tohoku University.
- He is an associate director of the Semiconductor Research Institute. He was a director of the Venture Business Laboratory in Tohoku University (1995–1998), and was a President of Sensor-Micromachine Society in Institute of Electrical Engineers in Japan (2002–2003).
- He has been a collaboration coordinator for Sendai city since 2004. He served as a general co-chairman of the 4th IEEE Micro Electro Mechanical Workshop in 1991 held in Nara, Japan, as a general chairman of the 10th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers 99) in 1999 held in Sendai, Japan and Technical Program Chairman of IEEE Sensors 2006 being held in Daegu, Korea.
- He has also been studying microsensors and micromachined integrated systems (MEMS).He was awarded the 2016 IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal.
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