Summary
Yuji Tanabe is a founder and CTO with 11+ years of engineering and leadership experience, combining a Waseda PhD with nearly a decade at Stanford focused on wireless biomedical implants. He founded Aeterlink to commercialize long-distance wireless power transfer across factory automation, building management, and medical devices, bringing deep expertise in antennas and RF systems. His background spans hands-on RF design from MHz to THz, academic research translating into industrial products, and successful technical sales and productization of microwave simulation and measurement systems. Notably, he has led projects enabling fully internal, wirelessly powered implants and beam-focused transmitters for deep-tissue devices, reflecting a rare blend of biomedical insight and practical RF engineering. Based in Tokyo, he pairs startup-scale execution with a track record of interdisciplinary collaboration between academia, industry, and medical partners.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Engineering, Ph.D., Engineering at Waseda University
Stanford University
Japanese, English