抱負
電子情報通信学会は，国の基幹をなすべき産業分野ならびに将来の技術を開拓し涵養すべき重要な学問分野を包含しています．また学会の扱う研究・技術領域は，機械，医療などの分野，さらには各種のサービスと連携し，新たな価値を創造し続けています．その一方で，急速なパラダイム変化への対応，次世代を担う若い世代へのアピール力の低下，ICTの発展故の競争の激化，など多くの課題に直面しています．これらの課題を克服し，世界をリードする学会であり続けるためには，たゆみ無い努力が学会に求められていることは論を待ちません．これらの課題解決に向け，グローバル化を促進する諸施策やグローバルな知の源泉としての役割の強化，産業界の人材の学会離れを防ぐ諸施策の充実，学会で活動する皆様の負担を軽減し，実りある活動をサポートできる電子化のさらなる充実やプロセスの簡易化，などを押し進めて行くことが重要だと考えており，その実現に向け尽力したいと思っています．

プロフィール
1978年東京大学大学院修士課程修了．同年NTT横須賀電気通信研究所入社．2004年4月より名古屋大学大学院電子情報システム専攻教授．本会編集理事，評議員，副会長などを歴任, OSA OFC 2014 Program Chair，その他数多くの国際会議の運営にたずさわる．本会論文賞，通信ソサイエティ論文賞，業績賞，功績賞，文部科学大臣賞，紫綬褒章等を受賞．IEEE Fellow，電子情報通信学会フェロー，NTT R&Dフェロー．

Position Statement
The IEICE covers one of Japan’s key industrial areas and a scholarly field with the goal of creating and cultivating future advances. The field, in combination with mechanical and medical engineering technologies, and ICT services, keeps adding new value to our society. However, we are confronted by the rapid paradigm changes in technologies, deficiencies in appealing to young generations, relentless competition among foreign institutes which have been attracted by recent advances in ICT. Overcoming such difficulties while maintaining the leading international position demands continuous endeavor. My aim is to advance the globalization of the institute, to strengthen it as a global source of wisdom, to strengthen the remedies that prevent industrial people from leaving the IEICE, and to lessen the burden of volunteers who contribute so much to the IEICE and make their activities more fruitful through further enhancement of ICT utilization and simplification of decision-making procedures.

Biography
Ken-ichi Sato received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo. He is currently a Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University. Before joining the university in April 2004, he has been a leading researcher in the field of telecommunications in NTT. His contributions extend to serving on numerous committees of international conferences including OFC and ECOC. He served as Vice President of IEICE, a council member of IEICE, a director of the editorial board of IEICE, and so on.
He received the Young Engineer Award, the Excellent Paper Award, the Achievement Award, and the Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award from the IEICE of Japan, and the Best Paper Awards twice from the IEICE Communications Society. He was also the recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, and the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon from Japan’s Cabinet Office. He is an NTT R&D Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and IEICE Fellow.