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Masakazu SENGOKU received PhD from Hokkaido University in 1972. In 1972, he joined as a Research Associate, Hokkaido University. In 1978, he was an Associate Professor, Niigata University and he was promoted to a Professor at Niigata University in 1989. He was Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University during 2003–2007. He was an Executive Vice President of Niigata University during 2008–2014. Since 2014, he has been President of Graduate Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies.

His research interests include network theory, graph theory, transmission of information and mobile communications. He received Best Paper Awards from IEICE (IEICE: The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) four times and IEEE conference Best Paper Award. He received the Achievement Award of IEICE in 2005 and Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award of IEICE in 2009. He was a member of Editorial Board, ACM, URSI, Wireless Networks, Kluwer Academic Pub., an editor of the Journal of Communications and Networks and a regional editor of Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, World Scientific. He was the President of Engineering Science Society, IEICE in 2003–2004. He is a Life Fellow member of IEEE, a Fellow member and a Honorary member of IEICE, a Fellow member of JSST.