Professional, Academic activities, Research Projects etc.

Society membership:

IEEE Senior Member'06 Member'92, ACM Senior Lifetime member

Technical Societies, Committees, Conference and Workshop responsibilities:

    YEAR 2010:
    • Editor -
      1. Journal of Communications and Networks (Wireless Networs),
      2. Guest Editor of special issue of JACIII Vol. 14 No.5,
      3. Associate Editor of International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems
    • Technical Committe -
      1. Co-Chair of Technical Committee on Aware Computing
        (IEEE SMCS: http://www.ieeesmc.org/technicalcommittess/index.html)
    • Conference Organizing Activities -
      1. Steering comittee member of IEEE CIT 2010 international conference,
        29 June - 1 July, 2010, Bradford, England,
        http://www.scim.brad.ac.uk/~ylwu/CIT2010/;
      2. Steering comittee member of International Symposium on Aware Computing (ISAC 2010)
        1 - 4 November, 2010, NCKU, Tainan, Taiwan
        http://conf.ncku.edu.tw/isac2010/
      3. Program Co-Chair, International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Emerging Networks and Systems (MENS 2010)
        26-29 October, 2010, X'ian, China
        http://jinlab.human.waseda.ac.jp/mens2010/
      4. Organizer of Special Session on Aware Computing, IEEE SMC 2010, Istambul, Turkey
      5. Co-Chair of Special Session: Awareness and Cognition: Modeling and Applications I and II
        IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2010
        18 - 23 July, 2010, Barcelona, Spain
        http://www.wcci2010.org/download/201005182300_IJCNN.pdf
    • Conference Contributions -
      Program Committee member & Paper Review - IEEE GlobeComm 2010, IEEE CIT 2010, IEEE WCCI 2010, IEEE SMC 2010, ICDCIT 2010,
    • Journal reviews -
      ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE SMC-B
    • Invited Lectures -
      1. "Clustering for Power Aware Routing in WSN: Present Status and How to Improve it"
        Key Note Speech at Intl. conf. AIT, CYUT, Taiwan, 24 April, 2010
      2. "Selection and Analysis of Gene Expression Data for Classification of Cancer"
        Invited Lecture at Intl. Workshop on Advanced Healthcare IT, CCUT, Taiwan, 26 April, 2010
      3. "A Note of Optimum Cluster Size of Cluster in Cluster Based Routing of WSN"
        Invited Lecture at NCKU, Tainan, Taiwan, 27 April, 2010
      4. "A Novel Alert Message dissemination protocol for VANET"
        Invited Lecture at National Chin Yi University, Taiwan, 28 April, 2010
    YEAR 2009:
    • Editor - Journal of Communications and Networks, Guest Editor of special issue of JACIII Vol. 14 No.5, Associate Editor of International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems
    • Technical Committe - Founding Co-Chair of Technical Committee on Aware Computing (IEEE SMCS: http://www.ieeesmc.org/technicalcommittess/index.html), Steering comittee member of IEEE CIT international conference
    • Conference Organizing Activities - Fuzzy IEEE 2009, Organizer of Special Session, "Application of Fuzzy Logic to Intelligent Transportation Systems" (http://www.chishiki.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp/Fuzz-IEEE2009-ITS/), Fuzzy IEEE PC member, Program Committee Vice-Chair, IEEE CIT 2009, Oct 2009, Xiamen, China (http://grid.hust.edu.cn/CIT2009/), Program Committee Co-Chair, FAN 2009, Sept. 2009, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan (http://web-ext.u-aizu.ac.jp/misc/fan09/fan09-e.html) PC Member - IEEE ICIS 2009, Nov, Sanghai, China (http://www.icis09.cn/), ICDCIT 2010, Bhubaneswar, India (http://www.kiit.ac.in/icdcit2010/), CODEC 2009, Dec 2009, Kolkata, India
    • Conference Contributions - Key-note Speech, AIT Conference, April 2009, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan, Invited talk at CODEC 2009, Dec 2009, Kolkata, India (http://www.irpel.org/codec-09/), Paper presentation at IEEE IJCNN 2009, Atlanta, USA, Paper presentation at Fuzzy IEEE 2009, Jeju island, Korea, Session Chair at Fuzzy IEEE 2009, FAN 2009, CODEC 2009, ICIS 2009 etc.,
    • Other academic activities - Invited lectures at School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University
    • Journal reviews - Journal of Knowledge Systems, Elsevier, Digital Signal Processing, ETRI Journal, Computer Communication Journal, ACM Computing Survey
    YEAR 2008:
    • Editor - Journal of Communications and Networks, Associate Editor of International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems
    • Conference Organizing Activities - PC Member - CIT 2007, IEEE AINA 2008, IEEE SMC 2008, SCIS & ISIS September, 2008, ICDCIT 2008
    • Conference Contributions - Key-note Speech, AIT Conference, April 2008, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan, Paper presentation at IEEE CIT, July 2008, Sydney, Australia, IEEE SMC October, 2008, Singapore, Session Chair at IEEE SMC 2008, WALCOM February, 2009, etc.,
    • Other academic activities - Invited lectures at different universities in Taiwan, April 2008, Visiting Professor at King Mongtuk Institute of Technology, Thailand, 1-31 August, 2008, Invited Lecture at Iwate University, January, 2009,
    • Journal reviews - IEEE Tr. on Mobile computing, IEEE Tr. on SMC, IEEE Tr. on Knowledge base and data engineering, ETRI, Journal of Digital Signal Processing, Neurocomputing,
    YEAR 2007:
    • Editor - Journal of Communications and Networks, Associate Editor of International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems
    • Conference Organizing Activities - PC Member - CIT 2007, IEEE AINA 2007, IEEE ICTTA 2007, ICDCIT 2007, IEEE DEXA NBIS workshop 2006, etc
    • Conference Contributions - Invited talk - CODEC 2006, Paper presentation at IEEE CIT, July 2008, Sydney, Australia, IEEE SMC October, 2008, Singapore, Session Chair at IEEE SMC 2008, WALCOM February, 2009, etc.,
    • Invited Lecture - Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India,
    • Journal reviews - IEEE Tr. on Parallel and Distributed computing, IEEE Tr. on SMC, IEEE Tr. on Knowledge base and data engineering, ETRI, Journal of Digital Signal Processing,
    YEAR 2000 - 2006:
    • Program Chair - Int. Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology 2005, International Conference on Information Technology 2003
    • Program Committee member of several international conferences including IEEE ICNN, IEEE SMC, IEEE AINA, IWDC, ITPC, WCLC, and others.
    • Session Chair - IEEE CEC, IEEE SNC, IEEE ICNN, IEEE ICPADS, IEEE ICOIN, CIT, NOLTA, APSITT, etc.International Liaison Chair - Premi 2005
    • Tutorial Chair - CIT 2002
    • Tutorial Speaker - CIT 1999, IWLC 2004.
    • Invited spaker - CODEC 1998, CODEC 2002, CODEC 2006, IWDC 2002, WSEAS 2003, IDPT 2004 etc.
    • Journal Paper Review - IEEE TOC, IEEE JSAC, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TKDE, IEEE trans. on SMC, IEEE Tr. on neural network, Computer Communication (Elsevier), Information Sciences, ETRI journal, Intelligent
      Systems, IEICE, Neurocomputing, Journal of fuzzy sets and systems, Intl. journal on Computers and Elec. Engg., International Journal of Computers and Applications, Telecommunication systems Journal, etc.
    • International Conference Paper Review - IEEE Conferences on FORTE, CIT, HC, ICPADS, AINA, ETFA, NN, IJCNN, ICEC, ICCNMC2003, IEEE International Conference on EEE, etc..

Grants for Research Projects

The following research grants were received as a solo proposer.

Issuing Authority Project Title Grant No. Year Amount
Ministry of Education Scientific Research Fund General Research (C) (2) ポスト4Gへ向けた利用者の自律・適応的行動理解モデル開発と新世代移動通信網の研究 20500071 2008-2011 3,000,000 JPY
Iwate Prefecture Science Promotion Foundation Intelligent sensor network   2006-07 3,400,000 JPY
Interactive GA for supporting creative work 7-3-37 2001 700,000 JPY
A project on computers to read text with passion 7-3-36 2000 1,000,000 JPY
Ministry of Education Scientific Research Fund General Research (C) (2) Soft resource reservation using fuzzy logic for multimedia communication 8650438 1996-1997 2,000,000 JPY
The Okawa Institute of Information and Telecom. Research Fund The design of Flexible network using intelligent agents 95-05 1995 1,000,000 JPY

In addition to the above, I was getting about 3.5 million yen/year regular research
grant from the prefectural government.

I participated in the following projects as a sub-leader.

Issuing Authority Project Title Year Amount
Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Govt. of Japan Agent Networking for Health & Welfare 2004 to 2007 100 million JPY (approx)
Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Govt. of Japan Dynamic Networking project 1999 to 2004 700 million JPY (approx)
Ministry of Public Affairs (Soumushou), Govt. of Japan Japan Gigabit Network project 1999 to 2004 31 billion JPY
Surveillance Framework for next generation Ubiquitous network 2004 20 million JPY (approx)