Kiichi Niitsu was born in Japan, in 1983. He received his B.S. degree summa cum laude, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2006, 2008, and 2010, respectively. From 2010, he was an Assistant Professor at Gunma University, Kiryu, Japan. Since 2012, he has been a Lecturer at Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. Since 2015, he has also served concurrently as a researcher at Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), at the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). His current research interest lies in the low-power and high-speed technologies of analog and digital VLSI circuits for biomedical applications.He has engaged in the development of low-voltage and low-power CMOS circuit design. He developed the world's-lowest-power chip-to-chip proximity communication based on inductive-coupling link. Based on this, he developed the world's first wirelessly-connected 3D processor featuring 1V 90nm CMOS MPU and 1.2V 65nm CMOS SRAM. He also developed the self-referenced on-chip jitter measurement technique which contributes to the progress of time-domain circuit technology. By using these low-power and low-voltage CMOS design techniques, he has pioneered energy-autonomous biosensors associated with bio fuel cells. Furthermore, by combining electroless plating, CMOS-based cancer detection techniques have also been developed.
As described above, he is fully deserving of the SUEMATSU-Yasuharu Award for his outstanding achievements and contributions in this field. He is also expected to continue contributing to scientific and technological progress.
