Professor Toru Uno received his Ph.D. from Tohoku University in 1985. After working as a research assistant and assistant professor at Tohoku University, he became a professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in 1998. He was also a visiting scholar at Pennsylvania State University in the United States from 1998 to 1999.

Professor Toru Uno specializes in electromagnetics, electromagnetic wave engineering, and antenna engineering. In particular, based on his knowledge of electromagnetics, he has developed practical numerical methods for applications for electromagnetic wave and antenna problems.the Technical Committee on Antennas and Propagation, one in 1996 and the other in 2011, and has answered many educational needs.

He published "FDTD Methods for Numerical Electromagnetic Field Analysis - Fundamentals and Practice" in 2016 and has made significant achievements in educating people on electromagnetic theory.

This book has been cited in many papers and has become a "bible" referred to by almost all researchers working with electromagnetic waves in Japan. It has made an extremely significant contribution to the education of the theory of electromagnetics.This book is intended to analyze a wide range of electromagnetic phenomena such as light, terahertz, radio wave propagation, circuit analysis, etc. The educational effect on researchers/engineers in various fields is immeasurable, and many researchers/engineers trained through these activities are widely active in academia and industry.

Furthermore, Professor Toru Uno has contributed to the development of research on metamaterials, structures that exhibit electrical properties that do not exist in nature, and he has achieved many results based on his knowledge of electromagnetics.

A comprehensive book, "Fundamentals of Metamaterial Antennas" was published in 2021, which has achieved the result of enlightening the application of metamaterials to the field of antennas.It is expected that new products and technologies will be widely developed by referring to this textbook in the future.

In addition, he has been active in promoting electromagnetics education by writing many invited papers in Japanese and English journals and publishing books on the subject. For these reasons, Professor Toru Uno's contributions to the promotion of electromagnetics theory and its applications are worthy of the Society's Educational Excellence Award, and we are pleased to nominate him for this award.