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 2020-2021. I would like to first take this opportunity to thank all the past APB directors, especially Professor Saewoong Bahk, and the many APB officers and volunteers. With their outstanding services and contributions, the Asia Pacific region, known as Region 10 in IEEE, has grown to the largest region in number of members and geographical area. More than a quarter of all IEEE members and more than 13,000 ComSoc members are from our region. 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. We have set up a new team who are full of enthusiasm and energy to serve for the next two years.

Director: Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore)

Past Director: Saewoong Bahk (Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea)

Vice Directors

  • MDC and CCC: Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Department of Information and Computer Science, Keio University, Japan)
  • TAC: Wei Zhang (School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Australia)
  • ISC and MCC: Youngchul Sung (Department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Korea)

Secretary and Treasurer

  • Chau Yuen (Engineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore)
  • Linglong Dai (Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)

DLT/DSP Coordinator: Rui Zhang (Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore)

CCC Co-Chairs

  • Rui Zhang (Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
  • Yao-Win Peter Hong (Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

CCC Vice-Chairs

  • Sheng Zhou (Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing , China)
  • Koji Yamamoto (Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan)

ISC co-Chairs

  • De-Nian Yang (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  • Mianxiong Dong (Department of Information and Electronic Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan)

ISC Vice-Chairs

  • Jemin Lee (Information and Communication Engineering, DGIST, Korea)
  • Yong Zeng (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China)

MCC co-Chairs

  • Neelesh Mehta (Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
  • Hiroshi Shigeno (Department of Information and Computer Science, Keio University, Japan)

MCC Vice-Chairs

  • Doohwan Lee (NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Yokosuka, Japan)
  • Li Wang (School of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

MDC co-Chairs

  • Byonghyo Shim (Department of Electrical and Comupter Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea)
  • Hsuan-Jung Su (Department of Electrical Engineering, Naotinal Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)

MDC Vice-Chairs

  • Sudhan Majhi (Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Patna, Patna, India)
  • Yuichi Kawamoto (Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)

TAC co-Chairs

  • Lingyang Song (Department of Electronics Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China)
  • Hung-Yun Hsieh (Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

TAC Vice-Chairs

  • Tony Quek (Information Systems Technology and Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore)
  • Chan-Byoung Chae (School of Integrated Technology, College of Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea)

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. Working closely together, we will continue to provide our members with opportunities to strengthen our friendships and to develop our professional careers. Let’s work together to make this happen and continue our tradition.

Sumei Sun

IEEE ComSoc Asia/Pacific Board Director

Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Singapore