Hiroyuki Shinoda is a Professor at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo. After receiving a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Tokyo, he was an Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology from 1995 to 1999. He was a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley in 1999 and was an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo from 2000 to 2012. His research interests include information physics, haptics, mid-air haptics, two-dimensional communication, and their application systems. He is a member of SICE, IEEJ, RSJ, JSME, VRSJ, IEEE and ACM.