Takahiro Yamada – Deputy Area Director, SEA

Takahiro Yamada is Deputy Area Director of the Systems Engineering Area (SEA). Dr. Yamada is the supervisor of the Data Handling Group at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). He has been in charge of development of both onboard and ground data systems for several science missions of ISAS, including the Space Flyer Unit (a retrievable space platform) and Hayabusa (an asteroid sample return mission). He also has been actively involved in the standardization activities of CCSDS and edited more than a dozen Recommendations and Reports published by CCSDS, including the Recommendations and Reports on the restructured space link protocols. He was the chairman of the Systems Architecture Working Group of CCSDS from May 2003 until July 2005. He won the Technical Merit Award from CCSDS in 2002. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo, all in electrical engineering.