Ryuji KOHNO
was born in Kyoto, Japan March 1956. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1984.Dr. Kohno is a Professor of the Division of Physics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Engin eering, Yokohama National University (YNU) since 1998. During 2002-2007, he has been a president of COE for Creation of Future Social Infrastructure Based on Information Telecommunications Technology in YNU. Since 2006 he is a director of Center of Medical Information and Communication Technology, so-called Medical ICT Center.
He was a director of Advanced Telecommunications Laboratory of SONY CSL during 1998-2002 and currently a director of UWB Technology institute of National Insti tute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) during 2002-2005, and s ince 2005 he is a director of Medical ICT Institute of NICT.
Moreover, he is awarded a Finnish Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro) since 2007 and a guest professor in Faculty of Medicine of Yokohama City University since 2007.
In his academic activities, he was elected as a member of the Board of Governors of
IEEE Information Theory (IT) Society in 2000 and 2003. He had played a role of an edi
tor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory during 1995-1998. Currently he is
an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications since 1994, and IEEE T
ransactions on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) since 1999. During 2006-2008, he i
s a Editor-in-chief of the IEICE transactions on fundamentals.
He was the Chairman of the IEICE Professional Group on Spread Spectrum Technology duri
ng 1995-1998 and that of Intelligent Transport System (ITS) during 1998-2000, that on
Software Defined Radio (SDR) during 2000-2005, and currently that of Medical ICT.
Prof. Kohno has contributed for organizing many international conferences, such as an chair-in honor of 2002 & 2003 International Conference of Software Defined Radio (S DR'02 & SDRf03), a TPC co-chair of 2003 International Workshop on UWB Systems (IWUWBS f03), and a general co-chair of 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theo ry (ISIT'03) and a general chair of 2004 International Workshop on UWB Systems Joint wi th Conference on UWB Systems and Technologies (Joint UWBST & IWUWBSf04) and 2005 Inte rnational Workshop on UWB Technologies (IWUWBTf05) , 2006 and 2007 International Symp osium on Medical information and Communications Technology (ISMICT2006 & 2007) and so on.