My background: Version 26 Jan 2013 Name: George Nicholas Maeda Citizenship: USA and Japan Place of birth: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA Date of birth: 24 April 1959 Father: Kaichi Maeda Mother: Yohko Maeda Brother: Riki Maeda Family data: Wife: Maeda Junna (originally Miss Le Thi Phuong Thao) Child #1: Maeda Aina......Birth Place: Fukuoka, Japan. Child #2: Maeda Aimi......Birth Place: Fukuoka, Japan. Child #3: Maeda Ken-ichi..Birth Place: Fukuoka, Japan. Child #4: Maeda Ken-ji....Birth Place: Fukuoka, Japan. Home address: Palos River Court Hakata 1-2-406 Minoshima 4 chome Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, JAPAN Home fax: +81-92-481-6703 Home phone: +81-92-481-6703 Cell phone: 090 3609 0452 Specializations: - electrical engineering (hardware and software) - bilingual (English and Japanese) Current position: - Research Fellow at "International Center for Space Weather Science and Education" (ICSWSE) of Kyushu University, Hakozaki Campus, in Fukuoka, Japan. Director of ICSWSE is Prof. K. Yumoto. (ICSWSE is pronounced "iku-sei".) Twelve years at Panasonic - Panasonic Communications Company Fukuoka, Japan. Employed from 26 October 1992 to 30 September 2004. Quality control engineer. Three years of world travel - April 1989 to September 1992 - mainly Asia - lived in Vietnam for 14 months - lived in Peking for 5 months Eight years at AT&T - Bell Telephone Laboratories Holmdel, New Jersey, USA. 1981 to 1989. Hardware and software development of optical fiber systems (1.8 Gb/s) Graduate school - Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA master's degree (1981 to 1982) -- electrical engineering University - University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA bachelor's degree (1977 to 1981) -- electrical engineering High school - Parkdale Senior High School, Riverdale, Maryland, USA. Graduated valedictorian. ========================================================================== Publications by G. Maeda 1. Title: Progress Report on the Deployment of MAGDAS Authors: G. Maeda, K. Yumoto, The MAGDAS Group Publication: Earth Moon Planet (2009) Volume 104: pages 271-276; Cited 3 times. Conference Paper doi: 10.1007/s11038-008-9284-5 2. Title: Preliminary Results from the Magnetic Field Measurements Using MAGDAS at Ilorin, Nigeria Authors: A. B. Rabiu, I. A. Adimula, K. Yumoto, J.O. Adeniyi, G. Maeda, MAGDAS/CPMN Project group Publication: Earth Moon Planet (2009) Volume 104: pages 173-179 3. Title: Deployment of MAGDAS in Africa Authors: G. Maeda, K. Yumoto, Y. Kakinami, T. Tokunaga, A. Fujimoto, A. Ikeda, Y. Yamazaki, S. Abe, M. Sakai, N. Eto, H.Terada, M.Shinohara, Y.Fujita, K.Matsuyama. Publication: Sun and Geosphere (2011) Volume 6, Number 2, pages 55-59. 4. Title: United Nations Basic Space Science Initiative: 2010 Status Report on the International Space Weather Initiative Authors: S. Gadimova, H.J. Haubold, D. Danov, K. Georgieva, G. Maeda, K. Yumoto, J.M. Davila, N. Gopalswamy. Publication: Sun and Geosphere (2011) Volume 6, Number 1, pages 3-12. 5. Title: Magdas Group Results of MAGDAS activities at "UN/Nigeria Workshop on ISWI" (Abuja) and of "MAGDAS School" (Lagos) (2011) Authors: Maeda, G., Yumoto, K., Rabiu, A., Ikeda, A., Abe, S. Publication: American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract #ED11A-0750 (ADS) 6. Title: Magdas Project Team Current Status of MAGDAS Deployment in Africa (2010) Authors: Maeda, G., Yumoto, K., Kakinami, Y., Tokunaga, T., Fujimoto, A., Ikeda, A., Yamazaki, Y., Abe, S., Sakai, M., Eto, N., Shinohara, M., Publication: American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #SA51D-1650 (ADS) 7. Title: The World's Largest Real Time Magnetometer Array: MAGDAS (2009) Authors: Maeda, G., Yumoto, K., Abe, S., Uozumi, T. Publication: American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SM11B-1583 (ADS) eof.