• The Instutute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE) Fellow member, Engineering Science Society President-Elect, BoG
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior member
• Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Member, Vice President-Technical Activities, BoG
• The European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) Member
• The Instutute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE) Member

HITOSHI KIYA　is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Information and Communications System at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He received his B.E and M.E. degrees from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan, in 1980 and 1982 respectively, and a Dr. Eng. degree from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1987, all in electrical engineering. In 1982, he joined Tokyo Metropolitan University as an Assistant Professor, where he became a Full Professor in 2000. From 1995 to 1996, he attended the University of Sydney, NSW, Australia as a Visiting Fellow.

His research interests are in the areas of multirate signal processing and image processing including wavelets, video coding, compressed-domain video manipulation and security for multimedia. He has published over 300 refereed papers in international conferences and journals, as well as seven books in these areas. He also holds ten patents in the US and Japan. He received the IEICE Best Paper Award in 2008.

He is a Fellow of the IEICE and a Senior Member of the IEEE. His professional activities include serving as: President-Elect, IEICE Engineering Science Society (ESS) (2010-2011), Vice President, IEICE ESS (2008-2009), APSIPA (BoG) (2009-Present); Editor-in-Chief, IEICE ESS Magazine” Fundamentals Review”(2008-2010), Special Issues of IEICE Transactions (1999,2006,2007,2008); Editorial Board Member of Infomation and Media Technologies (2007-2009);Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1998-2000), IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals　(1998-2002); Technical Committee Chair, IEICE Signal Processing TC　(2007-2008), ITE Media Engineering TC　(2006-2008); Conference Chair, General Chair and Co-Chair, DSP Educators conference (2005-2007), IWAIT　(2006), ITC-CSCC (2010), SIPS (2010),Technical Program Chair and Co-Chair, APSIPA ASC (2009), IEEE ISPACS　(2009), PCM (2010), ITC-CSCC(2005), IEEE ICASSP (2012), Special Sessions Co-Chair, IEEE MWSCAS (2004), and Technical Program Track Co-Chair, IEEE ISCAS (2005).