Shoogo Ueno is professor emeritus, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, professor at Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, and is also dean of the Faculty of Medical Technology, Teikyo University, Fukuoka, Omuta, Japan.
He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. (Dr. Eng.) degrees in electronic engineering from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1966, 1968, and 1972, respectively. Dr. Ueno was an associate professor with the Department of Electronics, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, from 1976 to 1986. From 1979 to 1981, he spent his sabbatical with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden, as a guest scientist. He subsequently served as a professor in the Department of Electronics, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University from 1986 to 1994, and a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo from 1994 to 2006. In 2006 he retired from the University of Tokyo as professor emeritus. Since 2006 he has been a professor with the Department of Applied Quantum Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, and is also dean of the Faculty of Medical Technology, Teikyo University, Fukuoka, Omuta, Japan.
He has been devoting himself for studies on biomedical engineering, biomagnetics, bioelectromagnetics, and bioimaging for more than 40 years, in particular, on magnetic nerve stimulation and localized transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with figure-eight coils, the electroencephalographic (EEG) and magnetoenchephalographic (MEG) mapping and modeling, imaging of electrical impedance and current in the living body, based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), called impedance MRI and current MRI, magnetic control of biological cell orientation and cell growth by strong magnetic fields, and cancer therapy and other medical treatments using strong pulsed magnetic fields. He is also interested in studies on effects of radio frequency magnetic fields and control of iron ion release and uptake from and into ferritins, iron cage proteins.
Dr. Ueno is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2001) and of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) (2001). He is a Fellow and Member-at-Large of the Governing Council of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) (2006). He was an elected member of the IEEE Magnetics Society Administrative Committee (2004-2009). He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE (2011). He was President of the Bioelectromagnetics Society (2003-2004), Chairman of the International Union of Radio Science’s Commission K on Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine (2000-2003), President of the Japan Biomagnetism and Bioelectromagnetics Society (1999-2001), President of the Magnetics Society of Japan (2001-2003), and President of the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering (2002-2004). He is a member of the International Advisory Board of International Conferences on Biomagnetism since 1987. He received the Doctor Honoris Causa from Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden (1998). He was a 150th Anniversary Jubilee Visiting Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (2006), and a visiting professor at Simon Frasier University, Burnaby, Canada (1994) and Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia (2008). He was awarded the d’Arsonval Award, the highest award of the Bioelectromagnetics Society in 2010. Dr. Ueno gave 47 seminars on biomagnetics in the world as a mission of the IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer during 2010.