Keynote Speakers
Prof. Koichi Asatani
Life Fellow of IEEE, IEICE, Professor
Emeritus of Kogakuin University
Kogakuin University, Japan
Shanghai
University, China
Koichi Asatani received his B.E.E.E.,
M.E.E.E. and Ph. D. degrees from Kyoto
University in 1969, 1971 and 1974,
respectively. From 1974 to 1997, he was with
NTT and engaged in R&D on optical fiber
communication systems, hi-definition video
transmission systems, FTTH, ISDN, B-ISDN,
ATM networks, IP Networks and their
strategic planning. From 1997 to 2014, he
served as Professor at Kogakuin University.
From 1999 to 2012, he was with Graduate
School of Global Information and
Telecommunication, Waseda University as
Visiting Professor. He was Chair Professor,
Nankai University, Tianjin, China for
2014-2018. He is currently Professor,
Shanghai University, China, and also
Professor Emeritus, Kogakuin University. He
is Life Fellow of IEEE and Life Fellow of
IEICE. He was appointed as Distinguished
Lecturer of IEEE ComSoc for 2006-2008,
2011-2012, and 2013-2014.
He is
Ex-Chair and Advisory Board Member of IEEE
ComSoc TC on Communication Quality and
Reliability (CQR-TC), Feature Editor on
Standards (1993-1999), Senior Technical
Editor (1999-2005) of IEEE Communications
Magazine. From 1988 through 2000, he served
as Vice-Chair of ITU-T SG 13, and Chair of a
Working Party of SG13, responsible for
digital networks including GII, IP networks,
NGN and Future Networks. He served as Chair
for National Committee on Next Generation
Networks in Japan. He also served as Chair,
R&D and Standardizations Working Group, Next
Generation IP Network Promotion Forum. He
served as IEEE ComSoc Director, Membership
Programs Development for 2014-2015. He
served as Chair, IEEE ComSoc GIMS Committee
for 2018-2019, and is IEEE ComSoc Fellow
Evaluation Committee member for 2019-2021.
He is serving as a Member at Large of Board
of Governors, IEEE ComSoc. He also has been
serving as a Board member, IEICE, and Chair,
IEICE Standards Activities since 2014.
He served as various positions of
numerous IEEE conferences, including General
Chair of International CQR Workshop 1994,
General Chair of International Symposium of
Interworking 96, General Chair of SIIT2009,
Symposium Co-Chair of Communications QoS,
Reliability and Performance Modelling
Symposium at ICC and Globecom (2002-2004),
which he founded in 2002. He was Executive
Chair at ICC2011 in Kyoto, Tutorial Co-Chair
at ICC2016, and General Co-Chair at IEEE 5G
Summits Tianjin (2016) and Tokyo (2017).
Professor Isao Echizen
National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Isao Echizen received B.S., M.S., and D.E. degrees from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1995, 1997, and 2003, respectively. He joined Hitachi, Ltd. in 1997 and until 2007 was a research engineer in the company's systems development laboratory. He is currently an advisor to the director general of the National Institute of Informatics (NII), a professor in NII's Information and Society Research Division, and a professor in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan. He is also a visiting professor at the Tsuda University, Japan, and was a visiting professor at the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2010 and at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, in 2011. He is currently engaged in research on multimedia security and multimedia forensics. He currently serves as a research director in CREST Trusted quality AI systems project, JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency). He received the Best Paper Award from the IPSJ in 2005 and 2014, the Fujio Frontier Award and the Image Electronics Technology Award in 2010, the One of the Best Papers Award from the Information Security and Privacy Conference in 2011, the IPSJ Nagao Special Researcher Award in 2011, the DOCOMO Mobile Science Award in 2014, the Information Security Cultural Award in 2016, and the IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security Best Paper Award in 2017. He was a member of the Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee and the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is the Japanese representative on IFIP TC11 (Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems).