Sasase Iwao

Iwao Sasase was born in Osaka, Japan in 1956. He received the B.E., M.E., and D. Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1979, 1981 and 1984, respectively. From 1984 to 1986, he was a Post Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer of Electrical Engineering at University of Ottawa, ON, Canada. He is currently a Professor of Information and Computer Science at Keio University, Yokohama, Japan. His research interests include modulation and coding, broadband mobile and wireless communications, optical communications, communication networks, information theory and network security. He has authored more than 300 journal papers and 455 international conference papers. He granted 47 Ph.D. degrees to his students in the above field. Dr. Sasase received the 1984 IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Student Paper Award (Region 10), 1986 Inoue Memorial Young Engineer Award, 1988 Hiroshi Ando Memorial Young Engineer Award, 1988 Shinohara Memorial Young Engineer Award, 1996 Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan Switching System Technical Group Best Paper Award, WPMC2008 Best Paper Award、2015 The Telecommunication Advancement Foundation Telecom Technical Award, and 2018 IEICE Communications Society Magazine Award. He was IEEE Tokyo Section Chair(2017-2018), Board of Governors Member-at-Large (2010-2012), Japan Chapter Chair (2011-2012), Director of the Asia Pacific Region (2004-2005), Chair of the Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee (2000-2002) of IEEE ComSoc., President (2020-2021), President in Elect (2019-2020), Vice President of IEICE (2014-2015), President (2013-2014), President in Elect (2012-2013) and Vice President of the IEICE Communications Society (2004-2006), Chair of the Network System Technical Committee (2004-2006), Chair of the Communication System Technical Committee (2002-2004) of IEICE Communications Society, Director of the Society of Information Theory and Its Applications in Japan (2001-2002). He is Fellow of IEICE, Senior Member of IEEE, Member of Information Processing Society of Japan, respectively.