**About the Special Issue Editor**

**Yoko Hoshi** graduated from the Akita University School of Medicine (MD) in 1981 and completed her PhD at Hokkaido University in 1990. She is a pediatrician (child neurologist), and she has also been participating in the development of NIRS and researching cognitive neuroscience. She has been a professor of the Department of Biomedical Optics at the Hamamatsu University School of Medicine since April 2015. Her recent research interest is the development of diffuse optical tomography.
