Hitoshi Okubo IEEE Region: 10 (Asia and Pacific) Email Biography Hitoshi Okubo (M'81) was born on 29 October 1948. He received the Ph.D. degree in 1984 in electrical engineering from Nagoya University, Japan. He joined Toshiba Corporation, Japan in 1973 and was a manager of the Toshiba high voltage laboratory. From 1976 to 1978 he was at the RWTH Aachen, Germany and the TU Munich, Germany. In 1989, he became an Associate Professor of Nagoya University in the Department of Electrical Engineering, and in 1991 a Professor of Nagoya University in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In 2013 he became a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Aichi Institute of Technology (AIT), Toyota, Japan. In 2011 he was a president of IEE of Japan (IEEJ). He is a member of IEEE, VDE, CIGRE and IEEJ. Position(s) & Affiliation(s) Aichi Institute of Technology Japan
