Prof. Dr. Hironori Washizaki

2027 IEEE Division V Delegate-Elect/Director-Elect Candidate

I respectfully seek your support to serve as Division V Delegate-Elect/Director-Elect. Together, we can further IEEE’s mission by advancing technology responsibly for humanity, sustaining the IEEE Computer Society’s leadership in computing, and reinforcing IEEE’s status as the premier global professional community.

Biography

Hironori Washizaki is a Professor and the Associate Dean of the Research Promotion Division at Waseda University in Tokyo and a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics. He also works in the industry as Outside Director of eXmotion and Advisor of SI&C. Hironori currently serves as Immediate Past President of the IEEE Computer Society (CS) to lead its activities and future directions.

Graphic: CS BoG and staff in California.

IEEE activities

Since 2023, I have served as 1st Vice President, President-Elect, and President of the IEEE Computer Society (CS) 2025, guiding its strategic direction with a focus on student and early-career engagement, stronger industry participation, and advancement in emerging technical areas. While overseeing the entire program to achieve these goals, alongside other leadership, I inaugurated and led the CS Juniors program, recognized globally for its STEM education, and launched industry-focused initiatives such as the IEEE GenAI Summit 2025 and the IEEE SWEBOK Summit 2025 and 2026. With strong volunteer and leadership support, these efforts have enhanced CS’s recognition, membership growth, and community expansion.

Since 2017, I have contributed to the CS Professional and Educational Activities Board (PEAB) as a member, chair, and vice-president, where I led the evolution of the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) Guide. This work underpinned educational courses and certification programs, contributing to CS receiving the IEEE EAB Society/Council Professional Development Award.

Regarding the publication aspect, since 2019, I have served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, promoting scholarship and advancing the journal’s visibility in its specialized field.

Regarding technical communities and conferences, I have contributed to IEEE conferences in software engineering and related domains, fostering professional community building. My leadership roles include serving as IEEE COMPSAC SIoT Symposium PC Chair and Advisor Committee Member since 2019; as IEEE ICST 2017 PC Chair; as IEEE CSEE&T 2017 PC Chair, 2023 General Chair, and Steering Committee Member since 2018; as IEEE ISEMV Steering Committee Member since 2025, and as IEEE CAI Steering Committee Member since 2025. I have been appointed as IEEE/ACM ICSE 2029 General Chair.

As a member and geographic activity, for nearly a decade, I have chaired the IEEE CS Tokyo/Japan Chapter, organizing events and awards to inspire and engage members. Through these accomplishments, I have advanced research, education, and community engagement in the CS and greater communities, strengthening IEEE/CS’s regional and global leadership.

  • 2011-2012: Treasurer, IEEE CS Japan Chapter
  • 2013-2014: Secretary, IEEE CS Japan Chapter
  • 2017-2018, 2020: Vice-Chair, IEEE CS Japan Chapter
  • 2015-2016, 2019: Chair, IEEE CS Japan Chapter
  • 2017-now: Member, IEEE CS Professional and Educational Activities Board (PEAB)
  • 2018: Chair, IEEE CS PEAB Ad Hoc Committee for Program Boards Integration
  • 2019-now: Chair, IEEE CS PEAB Engineering Discipline Committee
  • 2019-2022, 2024-now: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
  • 2021-2022: Vice President for Professional and Educational Activities, IEEE CS
  • 2021-now: Board of Governors (BoG) member, IEEE CS
  • 2023: 1st Vice President, IEEE CS
  • 2024: President-Elect, IEEE CS
  • 2025: President, IEEE CS
  • 2025: Chair, IEEE TAB Budget Process working group
  • 2026: Immediate Past-President, IEEE CS
  • 2026: Co-chair, IEEE TAB AdHoc Committee
  • 2026: Chair, IEEE CS Ad Hoc Committee on AI Strategy

Position statement for 2027 IEEE Division V Delegate-Elect/Director-Elect Campagine

Together, we can further IEEE’s mission by advancing technology responsibly for humanity, sustaining the IEEE Computer Society’s leadership in computing, and reinforcing IEEE’s status as the premier global professional community.

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.

Research and Selected Publications

My research interests include reliable systems and software engineering, AI/machine-learning software engineering, and ICT education. I have published over 75 research papers in refereed international prestigious journal and magazines as well as over 350 papers at international conferences and workshops, including IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Computer, IEEE IT Pro, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Empirical Software Engineering, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), Advances in Computers, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), and, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE). Based on the substantial research achievements and related contributions, I have been honored to receive numerous awards and recognitions, including the IEEE Computer Society 2022 Best Paper Award, the IEEE Computer Society 2022 Spirit of the Computer Society Award, the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor Award 2022, and the IEEE Computer Society 2023 Best Paper Award.

Selected publications include the following. All publications are listed here: Publication and Software.

Standardization

Since 2015, I have been the Convener of ISO/IEC/JTC1 SC7/WG20 to standardize bodies of knowledge and professional certifications, including developing the ISO/IEC 24773 series and adopting the IEEE CS SWEBOK as ISO documents. I have worked closely with the CS S2ESC to standardize the SWEBOK Guide and promote related standards. These are good foundations for organizing further IEEE CS’s learning contents and certification programs in the area.

Technical community

I have led the software engineering and the general computing professional community in Japan, Asia, and globally. I have led various IEEE and ACM conferences, such as IEEE COMPSAC Advisor Committee Member, IEEE CSEE&T Steering Committee Member, IEEE CAI Steering Committee Member, and ACM AIware Steering Committee Member. I have served as a Steering Committee Member for the Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC). I am also active with the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), where I have served as the Editor of its journal and Chair of the Special Interest Group of Software Engineering (SIGSE).

Academia-industry collaboration and continuing education

During my professional career, I have led numerous academia-industry joint research projects and large-scale funded projects in software design, quality assurance, and AI/machine learning software engineering. In the industry, I have served as an Outside Director of eXmotion Co., Ltd. since 2018 and as an Advisor to SI&C Co., Ltd. since 2024. Since 2017, I have led a large-scale, funded IoT/AI/DX professional education and related research program, called SmartSE, involving over 10 institutes and 20 industrial partners in Japan. To make the project sustainable and expandable, I have inaugurated and led its academia-industry collaborative consortium since 2018.

Biographical Information:

    • E-mail: washizaki [at] waseda.jp
    • CV: As of 17th March 2026
    • Twitter: @Hiro_Washi
    • Facebook: hironori.washizaki
    • Publications: All (1999-)
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    • Wikipedia: 鷲崎弘宜
    • DBLP: Hironori Washizaki
    • Google Scholar: Hironori Washizaki
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    • KAKEN: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Database: Hironori Washizaki
    • research-er.jp: 鷲崎弘宜
    • Current Board/organizing committee member in 2023-2025
      • IEEE Computer Society, President-Elect 2024
      • IEEE Computer Society, 1st Vice President 2023
      • IEEE Computer Society, Board of Governors (BoG) member 2021-2023
      • International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Editor (SCIE Indexed)
      • ISO/IEC/JTC1 SC7/WG20, Convenor
      • CSEE&T, Steering Committee Member
      • APSEC, Steering Committee Member
      • IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE–HKN), Professional Member
      • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), Associate Editor
      • COMPSAC, Advisory Committee Member
      • Education Sciences, Editorial Board Member
      • Software, Editorial Board member
      • Applied Computing and Informatics, Editorial Board member
      • Frontiers in Computer Science, Associate Editor
      • International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering Research Council, Member
      • COMPSAC/SIoT 2022-2024, Symposium Co-Chair
      • ICSEA 2021-2023, Steering Committee Member
      • SEKE 2010-2023, Asia Liaison
      • 情報処理学会ソフトウエア工学研究会 IPSJ-SIGSE, 主査 2021-2024
      • JST CREST 信頼されるAIシステム, 領域アドバイザ 2021-2025
      • IEEE ICET 2021-2023 Advisory Chair
      • IEEE CSEE&T 2023 General Chair
      • 日本ソフトウェア科学会 論文賞選考委員
      • DSA 2023 General Chair
      • ACM SPLC 2023 Publication Chair
      • IC4E 2023 Conference Advisory Chair
      • APSEC 2024 Education track Co-Chair
      • IISA 2024 General Co-Chair
      • IEEE Cybermatics Congress 2024 General Co-Chair
      • AsianPLoP 2024 Advisory Chair
      • IEEE ISSRE 2024 Advisory Member
      • IEEE IST 2024 Local Organizing Committee Member
      • ACM AIware, Steering Committee Member
      • Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Honor Society), Member
      • IEEE ICST 2025 Journal-First track Co-chair
      • AsianPLoP 2025 General Co-Chair
      • IISA, Steering Committee Member
      • APSEC 2025 Tutorial Co-Chair
      • IEEE ISEMV 2025, Steering Committee Member
      • IEEE CAI, Steering Committee Member
      • Gisma University of Applied Sciences (Germany), MRCiS Scientific Advisory Board
      • ACM BlockNetSys 2025 (ACM CoNEXT Workshop on Blockchain-Network Synergy), TPC Chair
      • Asia Pacific Science and Technology Association (APSTA, Singapore), Senior Honorary Advisor
      • IEEE COMPSAC 2027 Honorary General Co-Chair
      • IEEE/ACM ICSE 2029 General Co-Chair
      • Digital Transformation Research Society (DTR Society) and FSOFT 2026, Scientific Board
      • IEEE ISEMV 2026, Steering Committee Member
    • 公的役職・国内活動
      • 2015-2017 法務省 民事局戸籍システム検討ワーキンググループ 委員
      • 2017-2019 法務省 法制審議会戸籍部会 幹事
      • 2019 経済産業省 デジタルプラットフォーム構築事業システムガバナンスの在り方検討会　委員
      • 2019 経済産業省 DXを促進するためのシステムガバナンスに関する有識者会議　委員
      • 2020 経済産業省 デジタルトランスフォーメーションの加速に向けた研究会 委員、WG1 座長
      • 2021-2023 厚生労働省 技術審査委員
      • 2021-2022 法務省 法制審議会戸籍部会 幹事
      • 2021-2022 経済産業省 デジタル産業への変革に向けた研究会 委員
      • 2022 日本学術振興会 特別研究員等審査会審査員
      • 科学研究費助成事業 審査委員
      • 2023-2025 GTIE GAPファンド 審査委員
      • 2023-2025 一般財団法人ソフトウェア情報センター 周知慣用技術ヒアリング調査
    • Recent Board/organizing committee member in the past:  IEEE CS Japan Chapter Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer. APSEC 2007 Publicity Chair, CSEE&T 2015 Publicity Chair, IEICE Trans. Info. Sys. Editor (SCIE Indexded), Heliyon Editor (Elsevier), AsianPLoP 2016 Co-Chair, AsianPLoP 2017 Local Co-Chair, ICST 2017 Co-Program Chair, SEKE2010-2022 Asia Liaison, PPAP 2016-2017 Organizer, CSEE&T 2017 PC Co-Chair, DEPEND 2016-2017 Steering Committee Member, FASSI 2016-2019 Steering Committee Member, VALID 2016-2019 Steering Committee Member, APSEC 2018 PC Co-Chair, COMPSAC 2018 Local Chair, WESPr-18 Organizer, COMPSAC/SISA 2019 PC Co-Chair, IEEE Computer Society Professional & Educational Activities Board Ad Hoc Committee Chair, IEEE Computer Society Membership at Large for the Professional and Educational Activities Board (PEAB), IEEE Computer Society SWEBOK Steering Group Member, IEEE CS Japan Chapter vice-chair, SEMAT Japan Chapter Chair, IPSJ SamurAI Coding Director, Journal of Software and Systems Special Issue on Software Engineering Education and Training Guest Editor, AsianPLoP’19 General Chair, ISEC 2019 Workshop Co-Chair, AsianPLoP 2020 General Co-Chair, IEEE ICPC 2020 Programming Education Track PC Co-Chair, SCAM 2020 Engineering Track PC Co-Chair, iMLSE 2021 Co-Organizer, MODELS 2021 Industry/Exhibition Co-Chair, ICTAI 2021 Area Chair, HICSS/CSEE&T 2022 Mini-Track Chair, COMPSAC/SIoT 2020-2022 Symposium Co-Chair, IEEE ICET 2021-2022 Advisory Co-Chair, ICTEM 2022 Advisory Co-Chair, ACM SIGSCOFT Influential Educator Award selection committee member, APSEC 2022 General Chair, ICSEA 2021-2022 Steering Committee Member, 情報処理学会ソフトウエア工学研究会 主査 2021-2024, JST CREST 信頼されるAIシステム 領域アドバイザ 2021-2025, IEEE Computer Society Vice President for Professional and Educational Activities (PEAB) 2021-2022, ICETM 2022 Advisory Co-Chair, APSEC 2022 General Chair, APSEDEI 2022 Organizer

鷲崎 弘宜（わしざき ひろのり）

早稲田大学 研究推進部 副部長、早稲田大学グローバルソフトウェアエンジニアリング研究所所長、早稲田大学理工学術院基幹理工学部情報理工学科教授、国立情報学研究所客員教授、株式会社システム情報 取締役（監査等委員）、株式会社エクスモーション 社外取締役。1976年生まれ。99年早稲田大学理工学部情報学科卒業、01年同大学院理工学研究科情報科学専攻修士前期課程修了、03年博士後期課程修了、博士（情報科学）。02年同大学助手、04年国立情報学研究所助手。05年総合研究大学院大学助手。07年同研究所助教、および、同大学助教。08年早稲田大学理工学術院准教授、および、国立情報学研究所客員准教授。文部科学省社会人教育事業enPiT-Proスマートエスイー事業責任者。15年Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal客員滞在。16年早稲田大学教授。ソフトウェア、コンピュータプログラム、情報システムの研究、教育、社会実装に従事。他の活動にACM-ICPC 2014 Asia Regional Tokyo Contest Director、IEEE CS Japan Chapter Chair/Vice-Chair、SEMAT Japan Chapter Chair、IPSJ SamurAI Coding Director、ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC7/WG20 Convenor、日科技連SQiP研究会運営小委員会委員長・副委員長、同研究会演習コース主査、I. J. Soft. Eng. & Know. Eng.、IEICE Trans. Info & Sys., Heliyon、情報処理学会論文誌、コンピュータソフトウェア誌、品質誌 各論文誌編集委員、大学入試センター試験作問委員、IPA SECジャーナル論文賞選考委員、法務省戸籍システムWG委員、日本ソフトウェア科学会理事、SPAQu’07-09・AsisanPLoP’10・IEEE ICST 2017・IEEE CSEE&T 2017・APSEC 2018 PC Chair, AsianPLoP’11・14-15 General Chair, ASE’06 workshop co-chair, APSEC’07・ASE’12・CSEE&T’15・BICT 2015 publicity chair, SEKE’10-17 Asia liaison, MAPLE・SCALE’13・PPAP’16 organizer, SPLC’13・IEEE COMPSAC 2018 Local Chair. 情報処理学会シニア会員。04年日本ソフトウェア科学会高橋奨励賞、06年情報処理学会SES2006優秀論文賞、08年情報処理学会山下記念研究賞、08年船井情報科学奨励賞、08年日経品質管理文献賞（対象文献執筆分担者）、09年テスト技術者振興協会善吾賞、FIT2009船井ベストペーパー賞、14年IWESEP 2014 Best Poster Award、16年 APSCIT Computer Research Contribution Award、17年 日本工学教育協会 工学教育賞、17年 日本国際賞 後席にて天皇皇后両陛下へ研究紹介、早稲田大学2017年度リサーチアワード＆ティーチングアワード総長賞ダブル受賞（大学初）、17年情報処理学会SES2017 インタラクティブ特別賞、17年Int. J. Soft. Eng. & Know. Eng. Most Read Articles, 18年Int. J. Soft. Eng. & Know. Eng. Most Read Articles.