Noriko Kawakami
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Noriko Kawakami (Japanese: 川上 紀子) is a Japanese electrical engineer whose work involves high-voltage direct current storage, transmission, and conversion, including power conversion for wind turbines. She works in the Power Electronics Systems Division of TMEIC, a joint venture of Toshiba and Mitsubishi Electric,[1] as a senior fellow.[2]
Kawakami studied physics at Sophia University, graduating in 1982, and in the same year joined Toshiba. She moved to TMEIC in 2003, and earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 2008 through the Tokyo Institute of Technology.[1] She became president of the Industry Applications Society of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ) from 2018 to 2020.[2][3]