AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Hiroshi Saito graduated from the University of Tokyo with a B.E. degree in Mathematical Engineering in 1981, an M.E. degree in Control Engineering in 1983 and received Dr.Eng. in Teletraffic Engineering in 1992.

He joined NTT in 1983. His areas of interests include traffic technologies and network architecture of advanced networks including integrated packet networks and ubiquitous service networks. Since 2018, he has been a professor at the Mathematics and Informatics Center, the University of Tokyo. Currently, he is an emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo and a specially-appointed professor at Jissen Women's University.

Prof. Saito is a fellow of IEEE, IEICE and ORSJ, and a member of IFIP WG 7.3. He received the excellent papers award of the Operations Research Society of Japan (ORSJ) in 1998, the ACM MSWiM conference best paper award in 2016, the Arne Jensen Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020, and the Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award of IEICE in 2023.

He has been engaged in many technical/academic activities.

Programm Committee member, ITC sponsored seminar, India (1993).
International Advisory Council member / session chairman, Malaysian International Conference on Communication (1993).
Guest editor, Special issue on Traffic Management in ATM Networks, International Journal on Communication Systems (1994).
International Advisory Council member / session chairman, Malaysian International Conference on Communication (1995).
ProgramCommittee member, International Conferenceon Computer Communcations and Networks (1995).
ProgramCommittee member / coordinator, International Conferenceon Computer Communcations and Networks (1996).
Guest editor, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, COMPUTATIONAL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HIGH SPEED NETWORKS (1996).
Program commitee member, Performance 96, IFIP (1996).
Program committee member, International Conference on the Performance and Management of Complex Communication Networks (PMCCN '97) (1997).
Program committee member, Internaltional Teletraffic Congress 15 (1997).
Program committee member and sesssion chairman, IEEE ATM Workshop, Lisbon (1997).
Area chair (Technical area: ATM), INFOCOM'97 Techinical Program Committee, and session chairman (1997).
Session organizer / session chairman (Resource management of B-ISDN), ICC'96, Dallas (1996).
ATM forum ambassador, Traffic Management specialist (1996).
Performance Evaluation, editorial board member (1997-99).
Technical Program Committee member, SBT/IEEE ITS98 (97.4-98).
Program Committee member, IEEE ATM workshop '98 (97.9-98).
Session chairman, ICC'97, Pheonix (1997).
Technical Program Committee member, INFOCOM'98 (1997-8).
Program Committee member / coordinator, International Conferenceon Computer Communcations and Networks 97 (1996-7).
Guest editor, Spcial issue on "Traffic control and performance evaluation of ATM networks," IEICE Trans. on Communications (1997-8.5).
ProgramCommittee member / coordinator, International Conferenceon Computer Communcations and Networks 98 (1998).
Program committee member, the ITC specialist seminar 98 (1997-98.10).
Editorial board member, Advances in Performance Analysis (1998).
Technical Program Committee member, IWS'99 (1998-99).
Technical Program Committee member, IFIP TC 6 Fifth International Conference on BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS '99, Hong Kong (1998-99).
Technical program committee member, IEEE ATM workshop '99, Kochi (1998-99).
Technical program committee member, ICCCN'99, Boston (1999).
Technical program committee member, IEEE ATM workshop 2000, Heiderberg (1999-2000).
Techinical program committee member, Nagoya (2000).
Technical program committee member, the 17th international Teletraffic Congress, Brazil (2001).
Technical Program Committee member, ECUM (2001).
Technical program committee member, the 18th international Teletraffic Congress, Germany (2003).
Panelist, The Future of Mobile Data Communications: Technical and Economical Aspects, the 18th international Teletraffic Congress, Germany (2003).
Technical program committee member, 15th specialist seminar in Antwerp, Belgium Agust 31 - September 02, (2004).
Vice-chairman, Ubiquitous Networking Forum, DOKODEMO (NW-anywhere) Sub-committee, 2004.2-2009.
Vice-chairman, IEICE Information Networks Technical Committee, 2004.5-2006.5
Local Organizing Member, World Wide Web conference 2005,
Organizing Committee Vice Chairman, IEEE APSITT2005.
Secretary, IEICE "Technology and History" committee, 2005-2007.
Chairman, IEICE Information Networks Technical Committee, 2006.5-2008.5
International Advisory Council Member, International Teletraffic Congress, 2007-2015.
Organizing Committee Chairman, IEEE APSITT2008.
IEICE councilor, 2008-2009
Technical program committee member, 20th ITC Specialist Seminar (ITCSS-20), Hoi An, Viet Nam on 18.-20. May 2009.
Technical program committee member, the 21th international Teletraffic Congress, Paris, 2009.
Guest editor-in-Chief, Networking Technologies for Dependable Networks, IEICE Trans. Commun., E92, 1, 2009.
Chairman, International Teletraffic Congress Japan, 2007-
Organizing committee chairman, The 21th International Teletraffic Congress Specialist Seminar, 2009.
TPC member, SimulationWorks 2010, Malaga,Spain, March 2010.
Editorial board member, Computer Networks, August 2009-2018.
TPC member, Australasian Telecommunication Network Application Conference (ATNAC 2010), 2010.
TPC member, ITC (International Teletraffic Congress) 2011, California, 2011.
Scientific advisory board member, u-World 2011, Dalian, China, 2011.
Director of journals and transactions, IEICE, 2011-2013.
TPC member, ITC (International Teletraffic Congress) 23, Poland, 2012.
TPC member and Travel Grant Co-Chairs, ITC25 (International Teletraffic Congress) , China, 2013.
TPC co-chair, ITC26 (International Teletraffic Congress), Sweden, 2014.
TPC member, MONAMI'14.
TPC member, IEEE COMNETSAT 2014.
Guest editor, Special issue gAdvances in Management of Multimedia Services,h International Journal on Network Management (IJNM), 2015. TPC member, ITC27, 2015.
TPC member, MONAMI'15.
TPC member, the 2015 IEEE 25th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications - (PIMRC), 2015
TPC member, ITC 28 (28th International Teletraffic Congress), Germany, 2016.
Technical Programme Committee, the 2016 IEEE 26th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications - (PIMRC), 2016, Spain.
TPC member, ITC 29 (29th International Teletraffic Congress), Italy, 2017.
TPC member, the 6th IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks and Satellite (IEEE COMNETSAT 2017), 2017.
TPC member, ITC 30 (30th International Teletraffic Congress), Austria, 2018.


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