Mutsuo Hidaka

Mutsuo Hidaka was born at Miyazaki in Japan. He received the M.E. degree in applied physics from Kyushu University in 1982. He also received the Ph.D. degree in 1998 in electronics engineering from the University of Tokyo. He joined NEC Corporation in 1982, where he worked on various research projects on superconducting digital electronics. He was at Arizona State University as a visiting scientist, from 1990 to 1991. In 2002, he temporarily transferred to ISTEC, where he has been working on the research and development of Nb-based single flux quantum (SFQ) circuits. Dr. Hidaka is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers, and the Japan Society of Applied Physics.