Tomohiko Taniguchi

Tomohiko Taniguchi received his B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1982, joined Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Kawasaki, Japan, and received his Ph.D. degree from the same university in 2006. From 1987 to 1988, he was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, Stanford, Calif, USA; from 1996 to 2000, he was with Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Sunnyvale, Calif, USA. He is currently with Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Yokosuka, Japan, as Director of Wireless Access Laboratory. He has been active in the field of signal processing for more than 20 years. He was a member of various technical committees in IEEE Signal Processing Society and Communications Society, served for many conferences and symposia, including six times Chair of Signal Processing Symposium in ICC'02, Globecom'02, Globecom'03, ICC'05, ICC'06, and ICC'07. He is recognized for his inventions in speech coding and DSP technologies, and holds essential patents for various international standards, such as ITU-T, MPEG, 3GPP, and 3GPP2. He is a recipient of several awards for his papers and patents. In 2006, he was honored with IEEE ComSoc-SPCE Outstanding Service Award. He is currently serving as Chair, IEEE SPCE (Signal Processing and Communications Electronics) Technical Committee, and has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on vehicular technology since May 2007. Dr. Taniguchi is a Fellow of IEEE, and a Fellow of IEICE.

Biography Updated on 24 October 2007