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.

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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)

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