**Meet the editor**

Kenichi Takahata received the B.S. degree in physics from Sophia University, Japan, in 1990 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2004 and 2005, respectively. He held industrial research positions with Panasonic in Japan and 3M in USA, conducting R&D of micro devices and fabrication technologies for over ten

years. Presently, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada, as well as a Canada Research Chair. Prof. Takahata has published many papers and holds several issued patents in MEMS and micro/nanofabrication. He has served on committees for international conferences such as the IEEE MEMS and the IEEE Transducers. He also served as the editor of an InTech book Micro Electronic and Mechanical Systems. His research interests are in the areas of MEMS, nanotechnology, and micro/nanomanufacturing, including wireless microdevices, bioMEMS, nanomaterials and microstructures integration, and microplasma control and application.
