Biographies

Shinichi Imai   (M’1997) was born in Osaka, Japan, on January 11, 1964. He joined Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. after he earned his Master degree from the Osaka University in 1989. His current position is manager of benchmarking group in Power Network Division in TEPCO after 12 year experience of power system operation & protection.

His special fields of interest include power system protection and stability and Special Protection System. He is a member of IEEE and IEEJ. He has been involved in IEEE PSDP and PSRC since 2004. He is a vice chair of working group on UVLS with IEEE PSRC. He is a registered professional engineer of the State of California.

Tadaaki Yasuda    was born in Gunma in Japan, on June 18, 1972. He joined Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. after he earned his Master degree from the Tokyo University in 1997. His current position is Engineer in Power system operation department. His special fields of interest include power system protection, power system stability and special protection system. He is member of IEEJ (The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan).