Akira Ishimaru (Japanese: アキラ 石丸; born March 16, 1928) is a Japanese-American electrical engineer and professor emeritus at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Washington.
In 1958, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Washington, where he was also an adjunct professor of applied mathematics.
[3] In 1996, Ishimaru was elected as a member of National Academy of Engineering "for his contributions to the theory and application of wave propagation and scattering in random media.
[5] Ishimaru's research has mainly focused on wave propagation and scattering in random and turbulent media; his research has contributed to advances in microwave remote sensing, ultrasound imaging, laser surgery, radar systems and astronomy, as well as wireless and optical communications.
[6] His other research interests object detection and imaging in cluttered environments, inverse problems, wave propagation and scattering in the atmosphere and the terrain, acoustic scattering in the ocean and optical diffusion in tissues.