Professor Kido is an internationally recognized expert in acoustics and engineering. Currently a professor at the Chiba Institute of Technology, Prof. Kido previously served as the Chairman of ONTEK R&D Co. Ltd. and earlier as the Director of the Research Center for Applied Information Sciences at Tohoku University. Prof. Kido was elected as a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 1978. He has published eight books in Japanese over a span of forty years.
