■　佐藤　洋一：Yoichi SATO

［所信表明］

情報分野を取り巻く環境が目まぐるしく変化する中，情報分野の持続的発展を支える人材育成や国際競争力強化などの面で，私たちの情報・システムソサイエティが果たす役割への期待が高まるとともに，そのあるべき姿が厳しく問われています．私は，本ソサイエティの活動の根幹をなす研究会，出版事業，大会事業の強化に取り組み，本ソサイエティおよび信学会の発展に貢献していきたいと考えています．研究会については，同じ研究領域の研究者，技術者，学生が定期的に集うという強みを最大限生かし，研究の萌芽段階から徹底的に議論することで，人的ネットワーク形成，日本発の新しい研究の創出の原動力としていきたいと思います．出版事業についても，オープンアクセスも含め幾多の国際ジャーナルが存在する中，日本語で研究成果をアーカイブすることの意義や，本学会の英文誌の独自性や強みをどのように見出すのかを考え，出版事業の更なる強化を図っていきたいと思います．さらに，大会事業についても，裾野の広い研究発表や意見交換，さらに情報収集の場として，多くの人を引き付ける魅力的なイベントとすべく取り組んでいきたいと思います．

［プロフィール］

1990年東大・工・機械工学科卒業．1997年Carnegie Mellon University, Ph.D. Program in Robotics修了 Ph.D. in Robotics．同年より東京大学生産技術研究所勤務，2010年より同研究所教授，2013年より同研究所ソシオグローバル情報工学研究センター長．コンピュータビジョンに関する研究に従事．日本学術振興会賞，電子情報通信学会論文賞3件等を受賞．本会パターン認識メディア理解（PRMU）研究専門委員会幹事，副委員長を歴任．その他，IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, International Journal of Computer Vision, Computer Vision and Image Understanding等の国際論文誌編集委員，IEEE ICCV 2021 Program Co-Chair, ACCV 2018 General Co-Chair, ACCV 2016 Program Co-Chair, MVA 2013 General Chair, ECCV 2012 Program Co-Chairなど国際会議のチェアを担当．

［Statement］

With the drastic changes in the field of information technologies, there are increasing expectations for the IEICE Information and Systems Society to play a crucial role in strengthening the research and development of information technologies in Japan. I would like to contribute to the development of this Society and IEICE by making my best efforts to enhance three areas: technical committees, publications, and conferences, all of which underpin the Society's activities. Regarding the technical committees, they should continue to be a driving force for building human networks and creating new research areas emanating from Japan by encouraging in-depth discussion on research from early stages. Regarding the publishing business, we need to consider the significance of archiving research work in Japanese and how we can discover the uniqueness and strengths of our international journal to strengthen the publishing business even further. About conferences, I would like to work to make them even more attractive for diverse groups of people by providing a venue for wide-ranging research presentations and exchanging various ideas for research and development of information technologies.

［Biography］

Yoichi Sato is a professor at Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. He received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1990, and his PhD degrees in robotics from School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University in 1997. He received the JSPS Prize and the IEICE Best Paper Award three times for his research in computer vision. He served/is serving in conference organization and journal editorial roles including IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, International Journal of Computer Vision, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, IEEE ICCV 2021 Program Co-Chair, ACCV 2018 General Co-Chair, ACCV 2016 Program Co-Chair and ECCV 2012 Program Co-Chair. He also served as a vice chair of Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding in 2009 and 2010.