IEEE Computer Society 2025 President
Professor and Associate Dean of Research Promotion Division
National Institute of Informatics, Visiting Professor
eXmotion, Outside Director. University of Human Environments, Advisor
Hironori Washizaki is the 2025 IEEE Computer Society (CS) president. He is a professor and the associate dean of the Research Promotion Division at Waseda University. He is a visiting professor at the National Institute of Informatics and an advisor at the University of Human Environments. He also works in the industry as an outside director and advisor at eXmotion and SI&C. He has led professional and educational activities at the IEEE CS, including the evolution of the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) and the CS Juniors program. He has led many academia-industry joint research and large-funded projects in systems and software requirements, design, reuse, quality assurance, and AI software engineering. He leads a professional IoT/AI/DX education project called “Smart SE.” Since 2015, he has been the convenor of ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC7/WG20 to standardize bodies of knowledge and certifications in systems and software engineering.
IEEE Fellow
Dean, College of Industry-Academia Innovation
Prof. Guo received the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2004. He is currently a full Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, and Director of Advanced Intelligent Image and Vision Technology Research Center. He has been seconded as Chief Technology Officer to Service Systems Technology Center and Information and Communications Research Laboratories of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) starting from 2022 and 2023, respectively. He was Vice Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Director of the Innovative Business Incubation Center, Office of Research and Development. He was Visiting Scholar at the Digital Video and Multimedia Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, USA from June to August, 2015, and the Signal Processing Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA from July 2002 to June 2003 and June-November, 2014. His research interests include multimedia signal processing, biometrics, computer vision, and digital halftoning.