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HIRAI Akiko

Title, Position

Group Leader

Responsibility, Research Topics

Gauge blocks, Low coherence interferometry, e-trace, Refractive index

Research Field

Optical Metrology

E-mail Address

a-hirai (Add "@aist.go.jp" after it.)

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Brief Career

1996 Ph.D. (Engineering), Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
1997 Research Scientist, National Research Laboratory of Metrology, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Ministry of International Trade and Industry
2001 Senior Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
2003 Visiting Researcher, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA (~2004)
2004 Senior Researcher, AIST
2006 Planning Officer, Planning Headquarters, AIST (~2007)
2014 Chief Senior Researcher, AIST
2015 Group Leader of Nanoscale Standards Group
2020 Group Leader of Length Standards Group

Award

2021 The Fiscal 2021 Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau Director-General's Award [Contributor's Award for Metrology System Management, etc.]
2018 Distinguished Service Award from The Society of Historical Metrology
2003 Best Paper Presentation Award, Fundamentals and Materials Society, The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
2002 Iizuka Prize 2002, Asia Pacific Metrology Programme
1996 Encouragement Awards, The Optical Society of Japan
1993 Best Poster Presentation Award, Conference on Image Science and Engineering

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Committee for Conferences

  • Program Committee, Information Optics 2008
  • Program Committee, Annual Meeting, The Japan Society of Applied Physics (FY2013~FY2015)
  • Steering Committee, Optics Japan 2000
  • Program Committee, Optics & Photonics Japan 2012
  • Program Committee, Optics & Photonics Japan 2013

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Committee

  • Ad hoc Member, Japanese Industrial Standards Committee
  • Chair, JIS Drafting Committee (JIS B 7071-1、 7071-2、B 7072-1、B 7072-2) (FY2016年度~)
  • Chair, Length Subcommittee, Technical Committee Concerning Japan Calibration Service System
  • Member, Refractive Index Subcommittee, Technical Committee Concerning Japan Calibration Service System
  • Assessor, Concerning Japan Calibration Service System
  • Technical Adviser, Concerning Japan Calibration Service System
  • Optical Review Topical Editor (FY2022~)
  • Member of the selection committee for The Best Paper Awards, The Optical Society of Japan(FY2022, FY2023)
  • Steering Committee, The Japan Society of Applied Physics (FY2007~FY2010)
  • Associate Editor, OYO BUTURI, Membership Journal, The Japan Society of Applied Physics (FY2012~FY2014)
  • Associate Editor, KOGAKU, Japanese Journal of Optics, The Optical Society of Japan(FY2008~FY2010)
  • Committee, Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration, The Optical Society of Japan(FY2003~FY2009)
  • Executive Board, The Optical Society of Japan(FY2002~2003)
  • Member of the selection committee for Encouragement Awards, The Optical Society of Japan
  • Research Committee, The Society of Historical Metrology(FY2014~FY2017)

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