Drawing on his volunteer and leadership experience within IEEE – including serving as the 2025 President of the IEEE Computer Society – Prof. Hironori Washizaki is honored to announce his candidacy for the 2027 IEEE Division V Delegate-Elect/Director-Elect: https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/election/division5

I would be grateful for your support as we work together to advance IEEE’s mission of advancing technology for humanity, sustain the IEEE Computer Society’s leadership in computing, and strengthen IEEE’s role as the world’s premier professional community. The voting period runs from 17th August to 1st October. Thank you for your consideration and support.

My position statement: http://www.washi.cs.waseda.ac.jp/washizaki/
Election site: https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/election

Foster innovation, global collaboration, and responsible technology: Strengthen partnerships among industry, academia, and government to accelerate research and practice, advance emerging technologies, and launch initiatives that deliver societal value in computing and engineering. Through standards, publications, conferences, and technical communities, provide evolving bodies of knowledge while ensuring innovation is pursued responsibly, with attention to ethics and sustainability in the era of digitalization, generative AI, and beyond.

Empower and grow the community: Expand mentorship, training, and professional development across all career stages, from pre-college to senior professionals, while encouraging broad participation across diverse regions and backgrounds. Drive membership and volunteer growth and foster continuous learning, networking, and leadership opportunities that create lifelong, impactful connections to broader society through both existing and new channels, leveraging innovations such as agentic AI responsibly.

Catalyze collaboration with integrity and transparency: Promote open, transparent, and agile collaboration across the IEEE Board of Directors, staff, volunteers, and organizational units, including the Computer Society, to address interdisciplinary opportunities and challenges with integrity. Strengthen connections and build an ecosystem where communication, ideas, resources, and communities are seamlessly integrated and synergistically coordinated.