The IEICE plays an important role in the world’s leading “knowledge” creation, succession, and exploitation in the fields of information and communication technology and of electronics necessary to build a knowledge-based society in the 21st century. It is important that the IEICE provides the members with valuable opportunities to present and publish their latest results of research that should be returned to world people as common heritage of mankind. Therefore, the quality of the IEICE Transactions/Journal should be maintained and improved, including their impact factors. Furthermore, we are now facing a full-scale depopulating society and therefore, the development of young personnel in the fields of electronics, information, and communication is an urgent issue. I would like to contribute to resolving several issues that the IEICE is facing.

Masanori Koshiba received a PhD degree from Hokkaido University in 1976. After working at Kitami Institute of Technology and Hokkaido University as an Associate Professor, he became a Professor of Hokkaido University in 1987. From 2014, he serves as a Director of the Hokkaido University Career Center. In the IEICE, he has served as a President of the Electronics Society, a Chair of the Hokkaido Section, a Vice-President, and so on, and in the IEEE, he has served as a Chair of the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (currently, the Photonics Society) Japan Chapter, a Chair of the Sapporo Section, a Vice-Chair of the Japan Council, and so on. He was awarded the Best Paper Awards, the Electronics Society Award, the Achievement Award, and the Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award from the IEICE. He is a Fellow of the IEICE, the IEEE, and the OSA.