Motoyuki Sato is a professor emeritus at Tohoku University, Japan, and CEO of ALISys Co., Ltd, Japan. He received his B.E., M.E., and Dr. Eng. in information engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1980, 1982, and 1985, respectively. From 2007 to 2011 he was a distinguished professor at Tohoku University and from 2009 to 2013 was the director of the Center for Northeast Asian Studies. He was a visiting researcher at the Federal German Institute for Geoscience and Natural Resources (BGR) in Hannover, Germany, in 1988-1989. His current interests include transient electromagnetics and antennas, radar polarimetry, ground-penetrating radar (GPR), borehole radar, electromagnetic induction sensing, and ground-based synthetic aperture radar (GB-SAR) and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar systems. He developed GPR sensors for humanitarian demining, and they are used in mine-affected countries, including Cambodia and Ukraine. He received the 2014 Frank Frischknecht Leadership
