Officers

Director’s Message

It is my great honor to serve as the new director of IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) Asia Pacific Board (APB) for the term of 2022-2023. I would like to first take this opportunity to thank all the past APB directors, particularly Dr. Sumei Sun, and the many APB officers and volunteers. With their outstanding services and contributions even during the tough time due to COVID-19, the Asia Pacific region, known as Region 10 in IEEE, has been playing an important role in IEEE ComSoc. APB provides a great platform for all AP members to share information, promote cooperation between academia and industry, and encourage professional activities in our region.
To continue this good tradition, and serve the needs of AP regional members and communications industries, we plan to further expand our activities to everyone, which include technical work, membership development, information services, meetings and conferences, and chapter coordination. In particular, we are targeting to promote the Women in Communication Engineering (WICE) and Young Professionals (YP) activities. We have set up a new team including new WICE and YP committees who are full of enthusiasm and energy to serve for the next two years. I am very excited to work with you all.

Director: Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)

Past Director: Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Vice Directors

  • MDC and CCC: Youngchul Sung (KAIST, Korea)
  • TAC: Lingyang Song (Peking University, China)
  • ISC and MCC: Yao-Win Peter Hong (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Secretary and Treasurer

  • Koji Kamakura (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan)
  • Nordin Ramli (MIMOS, Malaysia)

DLT/DSP Coordinator: Byonghyo Shim (Seoul National University, Korea)

CCC co-Chairs

  • Neelesh Mehta (Indian Institute of Science, India)
  • Hiroshi Shigeno (Keio University, Japan)

CCC Vice-Chairs

  • Chau Yuen (Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore)
  • Li Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

ISC co-Chairs

  • Takahiko Saba (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan)
  • Hsuan-Jung Su (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

ISC Vice-Chairs

  • Linglong Dai (Tsinghua University, China)
  • Takaya Miyazawa (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)

MCC co-Chairs

  • Hung-Yun Hsieh (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
  • Tony Quek (Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore)

MCC Vice-Chairs

  • Yuan Wu (University of Macau, China)
  • Noriaki Kamiyama (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)

MDC co-Chairs

  • Doohwan Lee (NTT Corporation, Japan)
  • Sudhan Majhi (IIT Patna, India)

MDC Vice-Chairs

  • Yong Zeng (Southeast University, China)
  • Hyunbum Kim (Incheon National University, Korea)

TAC co-Chairs

  • Mianxiong Dong (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan)
  • Chan-Byoung Chae (Yonsei University, Korea)

TAC Vice-Chairs

  • Kyunghan Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
  • Fang Chao (Beijing University of Technology, China)

YP co-Chairs

  • Nicholas Wong (GlobalFoundries Singapore, Singapore)
  • Yuichi Kawamoto (Tohoku University, Japan)

YP Vice-Chairs

  • Qingqing Wu (University of Macau, China)
  • Kentaroh Toyoda (A*Star, Singapore)

WICE co-Chairs

  • Kaoru Ohta (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan)
  • Jemin Lee (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea)

WICE Vice-Chairs

  • Shuowen Zhang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China)
  • Wenjuan Tang (Hunan University, China)

I’d like to ask everyone to become more actively involved in APB activities and to encourage your friends to do so as well. Furthermore, please give APB officers your feedback, support, and encouragement. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many challenges to our activities, including conferences, distinguished lectures, and face-to-face meetings. We have also been brought closer through many virtual platforms, webinars. Working closely together, we will continue to provide our members with strong support and opportunities to strengthen our friendships and to develop our professional careers. Let’s work together to make this happen and continue our tradition.

Tomoaki Ohtsuki

IEEE ComSoc Asia/Pacific Board Director

Keio University
Japan