Prof.
Ryuji Kohno
IEEE Life Fellow & IEICE Fellow
Yokohama National University, Japan
Ryuji Kohno received the Ph.D. degree from the
University of Tokyo in 1984. He was a Professor and
the Director of Centre on Medical Information and
Communication Technology, in Yokohama National
University in Japan for 1998-2021 and then Professor
Emeritus. In his currier he played a part-time role
of a director of Advanced Telecommunications
Laboratory of SONY CSL during 1998-2002, directors
of UWB Technology and medical ICT institutes of NICT
during 2002-2012. For 2012-2020 he was CEO of
University of Oulu Research Institute Japan –
CWC-Nippon Co. and since 2020 Vice-President of YRP
International Alliance Institute. The meanwhile for
2007-2020 a distinguished professor in University of
Oulu in Finland and since 2006 a member of the
Science Council of Japan. In IEEE he was a member of
the Board of Governors of Information Theory Society
in 2000-2009, and editors of Transactions on
Communications, Information Theory, ITS, IEEE802.15
standardization TG6ma Chair and IEEE Life Fellow. In
IEICE he was Vice-president of Engineering Sciences
Society of IEICE during 2004-2005, Editor-in chief
of the IEICE Trans. Fundamentals during 2003-2005
and IEICE Fellow. He is a founder and a chair of
steering committee of international symposia of
medical information and communication technologies
(ISMICT) since 2006.