2018 New Fellows

No.	Section	Name	Professional Affiliation	Citation
1	Tokyo	Kohtaro ASAI	Mitsubishi Electric Corporation	for contributions to video coding development and standardization
2	Tokyo	Hajime ASAMA	University of Tokyo	for contributions to distributed autonomous robotic systems
3	Tokyo	Akira FUJIWARA	NTT	for contributions to silicon single-electron devices
4	Tokyo	Yoshihito HIRANO	Mitsubishi Electric Corporation	for leadership in the development of 1.5-micron wind sensing lidar
5	Tokyo	Noriko KAWAKAMI	Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corp.	for contributions to large-capacity power converters and applications
6	Tokyo	Hideki MOTOYAMA	Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry Corporation	for contributions to lightning protection and insulation coordination of electric power systems
7	Kansai	Shugen MA	Ritsumeikan University	for contributions to the design and control of environment-adaptive robots
8	Kansai	Hidetoshi ONODERA	Kyoto University	for contributions to variation-aware design and analysis of integrated circuits
9	Kansai	Hiroshi SAWADA	NTT	for contributions to blind source separation of speech and audio signals
10	Sendai	Hideo OHNO	Tohoku University	for contributions to materials and device design for spintronics
11	Sendai	Seiji SAMUKAWA	Tohoku University	for contributions to damage-free plasma processing for nano-device manufacturing
12	Sendai	Shuji TANAKA	Tohoku University	for contributions to micro-electromechanical systems for acoustic wave devices, physical sensors, and power generation