Kentaro Nakamura received D.Eng. degree from Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan, in 1992. He has been a professor of Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Inst. of Tech. since 2010. His field of research is fiber optic distributed sensors and opto-acoustic measurements. He is interested in sensor application of polymer fiber, acoustic measurements based on optical method and optical/ultrasonic sensing devices. He is currently a chairman of Lightwave Sensing Technology Group in The Japan Society of Applied Physics.