Akira Hirose received the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1991. In 1987, he joined the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), the University of Tokyo, as a Research Associate. In 1991, he was appointed as an Instructor with RCAST. From 1993 to 1995, on leave from the University of Tokyo, he joined the Institute for Neuroinformatics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, the University of Tokyo. He authored or coauthored several books, such as Complex-Valued Neural Networks (2nd ed. New York, NY, USA: Springer, 2012). His research interests include wireless electronics and neural networks.
Since 2009, he has been a Member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Neural Networks Technical Committee (NNTC), and 2010 he has been the Founding Chair of the NNTC Complex-Valued Neural Network Task Force. Since 2006, he has been a Governing Board Member of the Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNS). In 2016, he was the President of the APNNS. From 2013 to 2015, he was the President of the Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS). From 2013 to 2015, he was the Vice-President of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Electronics Society. He was the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society’s All Japan Chapter Chair from 2013 to 2015, and the IEEE CIS All Japan Chapter Chair from 2017 to 2018. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks from 2009 to 2011, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Newsletter from 2009 to 2012, and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems from 2020 to 2022. He served as General Chair of 2013 Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR), 2016 International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), and 2019 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). Currently he serves as the General Co-Chair of 2024 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI).