Hideki Tode received his BE, ME, and PhD degrees in Communications Engineering from Osaka University in 1988, 1990, and 1997, respectively. From 1991 to 2008, he was an assistant professor, and later an associate professor at Osaka University. From 2008 to 2022, he was a professor at Osaka Prefecture University. Since 2022, he has been a professor at the Department of Core Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Osaka Metropolitan University. His current research interests include architectures and controls for optical networks, wireless multihop networks, future Internet, and content distribution networks. Dr. Tode is a member of the IEEE and fellow of IEICE, Japan.