宮永 喜一

   He received the B.S., M.S., and Dr. Eng. degrees from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, in 1979, 1981, and 1986, respectively. He was an assistant professor in Hokkaido University from 1983 to 1987. In 1987, he was a lecturer and after that, i.e., from April 1988 to March 1997, he was an associate professor, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University. He was Professor in Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University from April 1997 to March 2020. He was the dean of Graduate School of Information Science and Technology (2014-2018). He was also the director of Global Station for Big-Data and Cybersecurity (GSB), GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University (2018-2020). From 1984 to 1985, he was a visiting researcher at Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, USA. He is a professor emeritus of Hokkaido University.

   He is currently President and CEO, Chitose Institute of Science and Technology (CIST) since April 2021.  The CIST is new public university established from April 2019. He was assigned as vice-President, CIST, from April 2020 to March 2021.

   His research interests are in the areas of speech signal processing, wireless communication signal processing and low-power consumption VLSI system design. He has published 3 books, over 200 Transaction/Journal papers, and more than 300 International Conference/Symposium/Workshop papers.

   Dr. Miyanaga served as an associate editor of IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Science from 1996 to 1999, editors of IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals, Special Issues. He was an associate editor of IEEE CAS Society Transaction on Circuits and Systems II (2012-2014), an associate editor of Journal of Signal Processing, RISP Japan (2005-2014) and also the Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Signal Processing, RISP Japan (2015-2018).

   He was a delegate of IEICE, Engineering Sciences Society Steering Committee, i.e., IEICE ESS Officers from 2004 to 2006. He was a chair of Technical Group on Smart Info-Media System, IEICE (IEICE TG-SIS) during the same period and now a member of the advisory committee, IEICE TG-SIS. He was vice-President, IEICE Engineering Science (ES) Society (2010-2011), President-elect (2014) and President (2015). He was the Editor-in-Chief, IEICE ESS (2016-2018). He was an auditor of IEICE (2018-2020). He is Fellow member of IEICE.

   He was vice-President, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) from 2009 to 2011. The APSIPA was established in Hong Kong since 2008 and it promotes all aspects of research and education on signal processing, information technology, and communications.

   He served as a member in the board of directors, IEEE Japan Council as a chair of student activity committee from 2002 to 2004. He was a standing committee chair of student activity committee in IEEE Sapporo Section (1998-2006), member development (2007-2012), fellow committee (2013-2014) and vice-Chair, IEEE Sapporo Section (2015-2016). He was a Chair, IEEE Sapporo Section (2017-2019).

   He was a secretary of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Technical Committee on Digital Signal Processing (IEEE CASS DSP TC) (2004-2006) and was its chair (2006-2008). He was a distinguished lecture (DL) of IEEE CAS Society (2010-2011) and a Board of Governor (BoG) of IEEE CAS Society (2011-2013).

   He served as a chair of international steering committee, IEEE ISPACS (2005-2007), and IEEE ISCIT (2006-2011). He was also an international steering committee member of IEEE ICME, IEEE/EURASIP NSIP, IEICE SISA et. al. He was an honorary chair and general chair/co-chairs of international symposiums/workshops, i.e., ISCIT  2005,  NSIP  2005,  ISCIT  2006,  SISB  2007, ISPACS 2008, ISMAC 2009, ISMAC2010, APSIPA ASC 2009, IEICE ITC-CSCC 2011, APSIPA ASC 2011, ISMAC 2011, ISPACS2011, ISCIT 2012, ISMAC 2013, ISCIT 2013, ISMAC 2015, ISCIT 2015, ISMAC 2016, ISCIT 2016, ISMAC2017, ISCIT2017, ISCIT2018, ISCAS2019 and so on.