Hisashi Kobayashi's Blog

Kobayashi has served as a chair or a member of advisory board for many professional societies, institutions, and  research organizations, including:

• Member, IFIP Working Group 7.3: Computer System Modeling, 1973-present, Chairman, 1982-86.
• Vice Chairman, International Union of Radio Science (URSI), Commission C: Signals and Systems, 1978-81.
• Founding Editor-in-Chief, International Journal: Performance Evaluation, North-Holland Publishing Co., 1979-86, Editor 1986-present.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Information Theory, 1980-83.
• Task Force Member on the Fifth Generation Computer, Computer Research Panel, U.S. National Research Council, 1981-82.
• Advisory Council, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Princeton University, 1981-82.
• Editorial Board, IBM Journal of Research & Development, 1983-86.
• Senior Technical Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine, 1984-86.
• Editorial Board, Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science Series, North-Holland, 1984-.
• Editorial Board, Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis, John Wiley, 1985-90.
• International Review Board, Institute of System Science, The National University of Singapore, 1985-98.
• Vice Chairman, Information System Section, Institute of Electronics, Information and  Communication Engineers of Japan, 1985-86.
• Board of Trustees, Princeton-in-Asia Program 1986-91.
• International Scientific Advisory Board, Advanced System Institute of British Columbia, Canada, 1986-97.
• Acting Chairman, Governing Board, New Jersey Consortium on Surface Processing, 1987-90.
• Advisory Council, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Pennsylvania, 1987-92.
• Science Advisory Committee of SRI International Menlo Park, California, 1988-91.
• Award Committee, IEEE Richard Hamming Prize, 1988-91, Chairman, 1990-91.
• Long Range Planning Committee, American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), 1989-91.
• Scientific Advisory Board, Information Technology Research Center, Ontario, Canada, 1989-95.
• Advisory Council,  NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), Washington, D.C., 1990-92.
• Board of Advisors, The Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 1990-present.
• External Examiner Review Board, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990.
• External Examiner Review Board, Center for System Science (CSS), Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, 1990-94.
• Editorial Advisor, World Scientific Publisher, Singapore, 1990-.
• Chair of Juror, Eta Kappa Nu in the selection of Outstanding Young Electrical Engineers, 1991.
• Systems Integration Panel, Computer Science & Telecommunication Board (CSTB), National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1991.
• Grant Review Panel, National Science Foundation (NSF), Washington D.C., 1993-2004.
• Editorial Board, Wireless Networks, ACM & Baltzer Science Publisher, 1995-2005.
• External Examiner, Communications Research Laboratories, Ministry of Postal and Telecommunications, Japan, 1996.
• External Review Board, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Duke University, 1998.
• Guest co-editor, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, “Advances in Computational Aspects of Teletraffic Models,”  June 1998.
• Board of Visitors, School of Engineering, Duke University, 1998-2001.
• International Review Board, Kent Ridge Digital Laboratory (KRDL), Singapore, 1998-2001.
• International Advisory Board, Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (AIST), Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan, 2001-2005.
• Executive Committee, The 21st Century Center of Excellence Program, Ministry of Culture and Education, Japan, 2001-present.
• External Examiner, Communications Research Laboratories, Ministry of Postal and Telecommunications, Japan, 2004.
• Member, IEEE Simon Ramo Medal Committee: November 2002-2006.
• Advisory Board, 2006 QShine Conference, Waterloo, Canada, July 2006.
• International Advisory Member, 2006 CHINACOM, Beijing China, October 25-27.
• Advisory Member, 2007 Hawaii, IEICE, and SITA Joint Conference on Information Theory, May 29-31, Hawaii.
• Advisory Board, 2007 QShine Conference, Vancouver, Canada, August 14-17, 2007.
• International Advisory Committee, CHINACOM 2007, August 22-24, 2007, Shanghai, China
• Scientific Council, ICST (Institute for Computer Science, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering), Brussels, Belgium
• International Advisory Committee, CHINACOM 2008, August 25-27, 2008, Hangzhou, China
• Board of Directors, Friends of Todai, Inc. (FOTI), New York, NY,  2007 to present.
• Executive Advisor, NICT (the National Institute of  Information and Communications Technology, Japan, September 2008 to present.
• Board of Directors, Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation, Inc, New York, NY, 2009 to present
• General Chair, 2009 PACRIM Conference, University of Victoria, August 23-26, 2009.
• Advisory Board, German-Lab (G-Lab), Würzburg, Germany, 2009-to present
• Chair, Advisory Board, Friends of Todai, Inc. (FOTI), New York, NY,  2009 to present.
• Advisor to the President of Toyota Technological Institute,  Nagoya, Japan.

In addition, Kobayashi has participated in numerous conferences, symposia, and workshops as a keynote address/plenary speaker, invited speaker, technical program committee member, session organizer and/or chair.