Hiroyuki Shinoda is a professor at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo. After a year as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999, he was an associate professor at the University of Tokyo from 2000 to 2012 and has been in his current position since 2013. His research focuses on haptics and mid-air haptics, as well as information physics, two-dimensional communication, and their applications. He served as General Chair for Asia Haptics 2016, General Co-Chair for IEEE World Haptics Conference 2019, and Steering Committee Chair for IEEE World Haptics Conference 2021.