Dr. Eng.

Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Senior Leading Professor, Faculty of Systems Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Visiting Professor, National Institute of Informatics (NII)

Visiting Professor, Monash University Malaysia

Contact:

• E-mail: kiya[at]tmu.ac.jp, kiya[at]ieee.org
• Websites: Google Scholar Citations, LinkedIn, ResearchGate

Research Interests:

Signal Processing, Computer Vision, Information Security and Forensics, Deep Learning

Academic Society Memberships:

• IEEE Life Fellow Member
• IEICE Fellow Member
• APSIPA Life Member, President (2019-2020)
• EURASIP Member
• ITE Fellow Member
• AAIA Fellow Member

Profile:

Professor Emeritus and Senior Leading Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), and Visiting Professor at Monash University Malaysia. He received his B.E. from Nagaoka University of Technology in 1980, M.E. from the same university in 1982, and Dr. Eng. from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1987. He was appointed Assistant Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1982, Professor in Jan 2000, and Professor Emeritus in Apr 2023. From 1995 to 1996, he was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia.

He has been engaged in research and education in the fields of signal/image processing, image/video coding, media security and forensics, and computer vision. He has supervised 26 Ph.D. graduates, published about 230 peer-reviewed journal papers, 470 international conference papers, 710 domestic conference papers, 13 books, and 2 translated books. He has received 12 paper awards including the IEICE Best Paper Award (2008), Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Award (2011), and ITE Niwa-Takayanagi Paper Award (2012).

He has served as President of IEICE Engineering Sciences Society (ESS) (2011), Editor-in-Chief of IEICE ESS (2012), President of APSIPA (2019-2020), IEEE Signal Processing Society Japan Chapter Chair (2013), IEEE Signal Processing Society Director-at-Large for Region 10 (2016-2017), IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal Committee (2020-2022), and IEEE Fourier Award Committee (2021-2023). He has served on the editorial boards of 8 academic journals including IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, and IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security. He was also the Technical Program Chair for IEEE ICASSP 2012 and General Chair for IEEE ISCAS 2019, among many other organizing committee roles for international conferences. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IEICE, ITE, and AAIA.

Selected Professional Activities, Honors, and Awards

• Visiting Professor, Monash University Malaysia (2024)
• Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Metropolitan University (April 2023)
• Senior Leading Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University (April 2023)
• Life Fellow, IEEE (January 2023)
• Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) (June 2022)
• IEEE Fourier Award Committee (2021)
• Visiting Professor, National Institute of Informatics (2021)
• IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal Committee (2020)
• President, APSIPA (2019-2020)
• General Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), Macao (2020)
• General Co-Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Sapporo, Japan (2019)
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (March 2018)
• Adjunct Professor, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Thailand (March 2017)
• Fellow, IEEE (January 2016)
• Regional Director-at-Large for Region 10, IEEE Signal Processing Society (elected Sep. 2015)
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (December 2013)
• Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society (elected Oct. 2013)
• Chair, IEEE Signal Processing Society Japan Chapter (January 2013)
• Editor-in-Chief, IEICE ES Society Publications (including four journals) (2012)
• Best Paper Award, ITE Niwa-Takayanagi Award (March 2012)
• Technical Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan (2012)
• Vice President-second term, APSIPA (October 2011)
• Editorial Board Member, APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing (October 2011)
• President, IEICE ES society (May 2011)
• Fellow, ITE (May 2011)
• Foundation Award, Telecommunications Advancement Foundation-TELECOM System Technology Award (May 2011)
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (December 2010)
• Board of Governors, IEICE (elected May 2010)
• Vice President-Technical Activities, APSIPA (October 2009)
• Fellow, IEICE (September 2009)
• Vice President, IEICE ES society (May 2008)
• Editor-in-Chief, IEICE Fundamentals Review (May 2008)
• Best Paper Award, IEICE (May 2008)
• Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing (January 1998)