Dr. Fumio Koyama graduated from the Department of Physical Electronics in the School of Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1980 and completed his doctorate in the Graduate School of Science and Engineering at the same institute in 1985, receiving the degree of Doctor of Engineering. In the same year, he worked as a research associate at the Precision and Intelligence Laboratory at Tokyo Institute of Technology, becoming an associate professor in 1988, a professor in 2000, the first director of the Laboratory for Future Interdisciplinary Research of Science and Technology in the Institute of Innovative Research at the same institute in 2016 and the director-general of the Institute of Innovative Research at the same institute in 2018, where he took on the responsibility of strengthening the institute's research capabilities. Since 2023, he has been Professor Emeritus at the same institute, Head of the Surface Emitting Laser Photonics Research Unit at the Institute of Innovative Research, and a specially appointed professor.

He pioneered the room-temperature continuous operation of surface-emitting lasers, which are now widely used in data center networks and face recognition systems for mobile devices and laid the foundation for their significant development. He also proposed a platform of integrating a surface-emitting laser and an optical functional device laterally and realized various new optical devices, such as wavelength-tunable surface-emitting lasers, ultrafast surface-emitting lasers, and non-mechanical high-resolution beam scanners, contributing significantly to the advancement of optoelectronics. Some of his research has been applied to practical use by joint research companies, and he has contributed to the industrial application of surface-emitting lasers in Japan, including the world's first practical use of a high-definition color printer equipped with a surface-emitting laser array. These achievements have opened up new possibilities for the use of surface-emitting lasers in next-generation ultrahigh-speed, large-capacity optical interconnects and information communications.

He has also mentored over 100 graduate students in human resource development, including more than 40 doctoral students, for more than 35 years. Since 2007, he has been the project leader of the MEXT Global COE Program "Photonics Integrated Core," contributing to the development of advanced doctoral human resources. In addition, as a project leader of the Beyond 5G functional realization program of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, in which ten organizations from industry and academia participate, he has led the research and development of the next-generation edge cloud computing infrastructure.

For these research achievements, he received the following awards from the IEICE: the Shinohara Memorial Young Investigators Award in 1990, the Best Paper Award in 1990, 1994, 2002, and 2007, the Electronics Society Award, the Fellow Award in 2009, and the Achievement Award in 2019. Furthermore, he has received numerous other awards such as the 1998 Marubun Science Award, the Japan Society of Applied Physics Journal Award, the 2004 Ichimura Prize in Science for Excellent Achievement, the 2007 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the 2008 IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, IEEE Fellow, Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics, the 2011 Microoptics Award, the 2012 Optical and Electronic Integration Technology Achievement Award of Japan Society of Applied Physics, the 2015 Tokyo Metropolitan Government Technology Promotion Award, the 2016 Ichimura Prize in Industrial Achievement, the 2017 Kenjiro Sakurai Memorial Prize of Optoelectronics Industry and Technology Development Association, the 2018 Okawa Prize, the 2019 Optica Nick Holonyak, Jr., Award, the 2020 Optica Fellow, the 2024 Hirose Prize, and the 2024 IEEE Nick Holonyak, Jr. Medal.

In academic activities, he has held important positions such as President of the Electronics Society of the IEICE, Editor of the Journal of the IEICE, Chair of the Technical Committee on Optoelectronics, Board Member of the IEEE Tokyo Section, and the IEEE Photonics Society Board of Governors.

As mentioned above, his activities in the IEICE and related academic societies in Japan and abroad, as well as his contributions to the development of electronic information and communication technology, are extremely remarkable. We are confident that he is worthy of the Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award of the IEICE.