Teacher Profiles
KATO, Kazuo Professor (Bioelectronics)

| degree | Ph.D. (Engineering) |
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| Specialty | Bioelectronic measurement, etc. |
| Affiliated academic societies | Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Japan Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, Magnetics Society of Japan, Japan Society for Biomagnetism |
| others | Hobbies: Volleyball, table tennis, skiing (a little bit of each) |
| Subjects Taught | Electrical and Electronic Engineering Experiments I & II, Electrical Circuit Theory Exercises II, Basic Electrical and Electronic Measurement, Biomedical Engineering, Electronic Engineering Seminar, Graduation Research I & II, etc. |
■Research Themes
Research on electronic measurement and biosignal processing targeting living organisms
■Career
| March 1989 (Heisei 1) | Graduated from Akita Prefectural Akita High School |
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| March 1993 (Heisei 5) | Graduated from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Mining Engineering, Akita University. |
| March 1998 (Heisei 10) | Hokkaido Graduate Schools Graduate School of Engineering Doctoral Program Completed a degree in Systems and Information Engineering. Doctor of Engineering, Hokkaido University |
| April 1998 (Heisei 10) | Joined Takenaka Corporation |
| April 2006 (Heisei 18) | Lecturer, Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Tohoku Gakuin University |
| April 2009 (Heisei 21) | Associate Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Tohoku Gakuin University |
| April 2014 (Heisei 26) | Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Tohoku Gakuin University |
■Accomplishments
Academic paper
- S. Yabukami, K. Kato, T. Ozawa, N. Kobayashi and KI Arai: “Coplanar Line Thin Film Sensor and Measurement of MCG without Magnetic Shielding”, J. Magn. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 38, pp.25-28 (2014)
- Tomoshi Yasukawa, Kazuo Kato, Kazunori Suzuki, and Atsuo Ishikawa: "Event-related potentials during cognitive task performance in a fluctuating background sound environment," Transactions of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Vol. 134, No. 2, pp. 277-285 (2014)
- Shin Yabugami, Kazuo Kato, Tetsuya Ozawa, Nobuyoshi Kobayashi, Kenichi Arai: "Multipoint Measurement of Cardiac Magnetic Fields Using Transmission Line Type Thin Film Sensors", Transactions of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Vol.133, No.6, pp.372-375 (2013)
- K. Kato, O. Miura, A. Shikoda, T. Kuroki, A. Ishikawa, T. Kobayashi: “Event-related potentials affected by spatial frequencies of background visual pattern during a cognitive task”, IEEJ Trans, Vol.8, pp.483-488 (2013)
- Kazuo Kato, Arimitsu Shikoda, Megumi Nishida, Tomohiro Kuroki, Atsuo Ishikawa, Tetsuo Kobayashi: "Study on the structural characteristics of images that induce gaze behavior", Transactions of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Vol.31, No.1, pp.175-181 (2011)