Yasutaka Amagai (Member, IEEE) was born in Ibaraki, Japan, in 1980. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan, in 2003 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from the same university in 2014.
He joined the National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan, in 2009. From 2018 to 2019, he was a Guest Researcher with the Quantum Measurement Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA. He is currently a Team Leader at the Global Research and Development Center for Business by Quantum-AI Technology (G-QuAT), AIST, and also serves as an Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Science.
Since 2009, his research has focused on ac–dc difference measurements, including the development of novel thermal voltage and current sensors, quantum ac voltage standards, current sensors based on nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond, and their applications to thermophysical property measurement methods.
Dr. Amagai serves as an Expert and Project Leader in ISO/IEC JTC 3 on quantities and units. He was selected as one of the Top 70 most published authors in the past seven years of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement in 2020. He is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
