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Academic Profile
	Assoc Prof Hirotaka Sato Associate Professor School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering College of Engineering Email: HIROSATO@NTU.EDU.SG Phone: (+65)6790 5010 Office: N3.2-01-20
Education
PhD (Chemistry) Waseda University 2005 MS (Chemistry) Waseda University 2002 BS (Chemistry) Waseda University 2000
Biography
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES University of California at Berkeley, postdoc 2008 - 2011 University of Michigan, postdoc 2007 Waseda University, research assistant professor, 2005 - 2006 HONORS The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2009 (TR10), MIT Technology Review The 50 Best Inventions of 2009, TIME magazine The Most Viewed and Downloaded Article 2010, Frontiers in Neuroscience
Research Interests
MICRO SYSTEM micro air vehicle, MAV insect flight control insect physiology biofuel cell NANO FABRICATION electrochemical etching, deposition electroless deposition
Current Projects
An Insect-Machine Hybrid System: Development of Bio-Interface for Remote Radio Control of Insect Flight Development of Electrochemical Mechanical Polishing of Tungsten Carbide for Glass Lens Molding Development of electrochemical process for precision mechanical parts Development of wet treatments for efficient and low cost electroless plating process Drug Delivery System for Boosting Locomotive Performances in Biological Machine Extremely highly-active and low-cost catalyst for electroless plating High Throughput and Efficient Electroless Plating Processes Insect-Hybrid Legged Robot Integrated with Micro Sensors and Remote Navigation System Integration of Sugar Energy Harvester into Wireless Communication Device Remote Takeoff and Landing Control of Insect-Computer Hybrid Flapping Robot Vital Sign Monitoring in Insect-Machine Hybrid System
Selected Publications
Feng Cao, Chao Zhang, Hao Yu Choo, Hirotaka Sato. (2016). Insect–computer hybrid legged robot with user-adjustable speed, step length and walking gait. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 13(116), 20160060. T. T. V. Doan, J. Wang, Ka. C. Poon, D. C. L. Tan, B. Khezri, R. D. Webster, H. Su, H. Sato. (2016). Theoretical Modelling and Facile Synthesis of Highly Active B-doped Pd Catalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 55(24), DOI: 10.1002/anie.201682461. Kee Chun Poon, Bahareh Khezri, Yao Li, Richard D. Webster, Haibin Su, Hirotaka Sato. (2016). A highly active Pd–P nanoparticle electrocatalyst for enhanced formic acid oxidation synthesized via stepwise electroless deposition. Chemical Communications, 52, 3556-3559. Hirotaka Sato, Tat Thang Vo Doan, Svetoslav Kolev, Ngoc Anh Huynh, Chao Zhang, Travis L. Massey, Joshua van Kleef, Kazuo Ikeda, Pieter Abbeel, Michel M. Maharbiz. (2015). Deciphering the Role of a Coleopteran Steering Muscle via Free Flight Stimulation. Current Biology, 25(6), 798-803. Kee Chun Poon, Desmond C. L. Tan,Thang D.T. Vo, Bahareh Khezri, Haibin Su, Richard D. Webster and Hirotaka Sato. (2014). Newly Developed Stepwise Electroless Deposition Enables a Remarkably Facile Synthesis of Highly Active and Stable Amorphous Pd Nanoparticle Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 136(14), 5217.

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