Shoogo Ueno received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. (Dr. Eng.) degrees in electronic engineering from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1966, 1968, and 1972, respectively. Dr. Ueno was an associate professor with the Department of Electronics, Kyushu University, from 1976 to 1986. From 1979 to 1981, he spent his sabbatical with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden, as a guest scientist. He subsequently served as a professor in the Department of Electronics, Kyushu University (1986-1994) and in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo (1994-2006). In 2006 he retired from the University of Tokyo as professor emeritus. Since 2006 he has been a professor with the Department of Applied Quantum Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, and is also dean of the Faculty of Medical Technology, Teikyo University, Fukuoka.

Dr. Ueno is a Fellow of the IEEE (2001) and of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2001). He is a Fellow and Member-at-Large of the Governing Council of the International Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering (2006). He was an elected member of the IEEE Magnetics Society Administrative Committee (2004-2009). He was President of the Bioelectromagnetics Society (2003-2004), Chairman of the International Union of Radio Science’s Commission K on Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine (2000-2003), President of the Japan Biomagnetism and Bioelectromagnetics Society (1999-2001), President of the Magnetics Society of Japan (2001-2003), and President of the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering (2002-2004). He received the Doctor Honoris Causa from Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden (1998). He was a 150th Anniversary Jubilee Visiting Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (2006), and a visiting professor at Simon Frasier University, Burnaby, Canada (1994) and Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia (2008)

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