Nobuaki Takahashi received the B. Sc. in Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, and M. Sc. and Ph. D. in Engineering from University of California, Irvine, USA. From 1981 to 1983, he was a researcher at Amada Engineering and Service, Inc., USA. In 1983, he joined the National Defense Academy, Japan, where he currently leads as a professor a research group involved in Laser Physics, Optoelectronics, and Optical Fiber Sensors. In 2001, he conducted as a steering chair the International Conference on Optical Engineering for Sensing and Nanotechnology sponsored by Optical Society of Japan and SPIE. From 2011 to 2013, he was a Dean of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.