Fumio Koyama received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physical electronics from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1980, 1982 and 1985, respectively.He served as the dean, Institute of Innovative Research between 2018-2020. Since 2023, he has been Professor Emeritus, Head of the Surface Emitting Laser Photonics Research Unit at the same institute (presently Institute of Science Tokyo). His research interest includes high-speed VCSEL photonics, photonic integrated devices, 3D optical sensing and LiDAR. He has authored or co-authored more than 1,000 journal and conference papers, including more than 100 invited talks. He was one of ISI’s highly cited researchers. His work has received over 17,000 citations and his h-index is 61. For more than 40 years, Fumio Koyama has been one of leading researchers whose work contributed to VCSEL photonics and single-mode lasers for broadband optical communications. He received various awards, including the IEE Electronics Letters Premium in 1985 and in 1988, the 1988 Marubun Scientific Award, the 2004 Ichimura Award, the 2007 MEXT Prize for Science and Technology, the 2008 IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, the 2012 Izuo Hayashi Award from JSAP, the 2015 Tokyo Metropolitan Government Award, the 2017 Kenjiro Sakurai Memorial Award, the 2018 Okawa Prize, 2019 Optica Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award, the 2024 Hirose Prize, 2024 IEEE Nick Holonyak, Jr. Medal for Semiconductor Optoelectronic Technologies (co-recipient) and 2024 IEICE Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award. He is Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow, Honorary Memberof IEICE, Fellow of Optica and Japan Society of Applied Physics. He was elected an international member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2025. He was a deputy editor for IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (2011-2016) and a topical editor for OSA Optics Letters (2009-2013), and was the Guest Editor of IEEE JSTQE (2002 and 2007). He has served as the IEEE David Sarnoff Award Committee Member (2009-2012) and the IEEE Fink and Baker Awards Committee Member (2013-2014). He also has served as various committee members, including General Chair (2010), Program Chair (2008) and Sub-committee Chair (2006) of IEEE International Semiconductor Laser Conferences, Sub-committee Co-Chair of ACP 2009-2010, Steering Committee Chair of CLEO Pacific-Rim (2012-), CLEO/QELS TPC member (2006-2008), LEOS Annual Meeting TPC member (1998-2003), General Co-chair (2007) and Program Co-chair (2005) OECC. He was the chair of IEEE Photonics Society Japan Chapter and Board Member of IEEE Tokyo Section. He also served as President of Electronics Society, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) (2011-2012) and the member of IEEE Photonics Society Board of Governors (2012-2014).