Julian Webber received a PhD from Bristol University in 2004. Following postdoctoral research on wireless communications at Hokkaido University from 2007, he joined the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Kyoto, in 2012. He was a visiting researcher and research assistant professor at Osaka University from 2018. His research interests include communications engineering, machine learning and signal and image processing, with emphasis on real-time implementation. He is a senior member of the IEEE and member of the IEICE.