Jianting Cao received the M. Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University, Japan, in 1993 and 1996, respectively. From 1983 to 1988, he worked as a Researcher at the Institute of Technology and Equipment in the Ministry of Geological and Mineral in China. From 1996 to 1998, he worked as a Researcher at the Brain Science Institute, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research) in Japan. From 1998 to 2002, he worked as an Assistant, and a Lecture at the Sophia University in Japan. From 2002 to 2007, he worked as an Associate Professor at the Saitama Institute of Technology in Japan. He is currently working as a Professor at the Department of Information Systems, Saitama Institute of Technology, and a Visiting Research Scientist at the Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), RIKEN in Japan. He received the Best Paper Award from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (Japan) in 1996, from the IEEE Circuits and System Society in 2005, from the Signal Processing Institute (Japan) in 2007, from International Neural Network Society in 2010, and from IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2010. In the same year he received the Outstanding Research Achievement AWARD from Asia Pacific Society for Computer and Information Technology Society. His research interests include signal processing, biomedical signal processing, neural networks and learning algorithms. Dr. Cao is a member of IEEE, and IEICE (Japan).
