Life Member of APSIPA; served as President (2019–2020)
Recipient of 12 Best Paper Awards
IEEE SPS Regional Director-at-Large for Region 10 (2016–2017)
Chair of IEEE SPS Japan Chapter (2013)
President of IEICE Engineering Sciences Society (2011) and Editor-in-Chief of its publications (2012)
Served on IEEE Fourier Award Committee (2021) and IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal Committee (2020)
Editorial Board Member of eight journals including IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, and IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security
Organized major international conferences: TPC Chair of IEEE ICASSP 2012, General Co-Chair of IEEE ISCAS 2019 and IEEE VCIP 2020
Research Experience
Joined Tokyo Metropolitan University as Assistant Professor in 1982; promoted to Full Professor in 2000
Visiting Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia (1995–1996)
Currently Senior Leading Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University
Visiting Professor at National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Visiting Professor at Monash University Malaysia
Former Adjunct Professor at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Thailand
Background
Professor Emeritus and Senior Leading Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University
Visiting Professor at National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan
Visiting Professor at Monash University Malaysia
Former Professor, Chair of the Department of Computer Science, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of System Design at Tokyo Metropolitan University
Research interests include signal processing, computer vision, image and video coding and communications, multimedia forensics and security, and deep learning