Akitoshi Okino received the Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering degrees in applied physics from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1989 and 1991, respectively, and the Doctor of Engineering degree in nuclear engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan, in 1994. He was a Visiting Professor with the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, from 2006 to 2007. He established Plasma Concept Tokyo, Inc., Tokyo, Japan, in 2008. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Energy Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has worked at Shizuoka University since 2019, and he has been a Visiting Associate Professor at the Tohoku University since August 2022. His current research interests include the applications of thermal and nonthermal atmospheric plasmas for analytical chemistry and medical fields.