Rate My Professor Hiroki Wakatsuchi

Wakatsuchi leads the Electromagnetics Research Group at Nagoya Institute of Technology, focusing on artificially engineered electromagnetic materials such as metamaterials and metasurfaces. His research explores waveform-selective surfaces that respond differently to electromagnetic pulses based on characteristics like pulse width, enabling applications in wireless communications, microwave power transfer, radar identification, and radio wave environment improvement for devices like smartphones. Key publications include "Pulse-driven self-reconfigurable meta-antennas" in Nature Communications (2023), "Anisotropic impedance surfaces activated by incident waveform" in Nanophotonics (2022), and "Waveform Selective Surfaces" in Advanced Functional Materials (2019). His scholarship has accumulated over 1,500 citations. Wakatsuchi has received fellowships from the Japan Science and Technology Agency, including Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO, 2019-2022) and Fusion Oriented REsearch for disruptive Science and Technology (FOREST, 2023-present). Notable awards include the Ando Hiroshige Memorial Academic Encouragement Award (2016), Telecom Dissemination Foundation Award (2015), Funai Research Encouragement Award (2014), and multiple Nagoya Institute of Technology commendations and faculty evaluation excellence awards (2016, 2020, 2023, 2024).