Ryuji Kohno is a Professor in the Physics Division, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Graduate School or Engineering, at Yokohama National University in Japan where he has served since 1998. Dr. Ryuji Kohno received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1984.

Dr. Kohno has been a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE IT Society since elected as a member in Y2000, and has served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 1995 - 1998 and as an editor of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communications Engineers (IEICE) Transactions on Communications from 1990 - 1993. Dr. Kohno has contributed to the organization of many international conferences and served as the TPC Chairman of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'99). Dr. Kohno chaired the IEICE Technical Group on Spread Spectrum Technology from 1995 - 1998 and the IEICE Technical Group on Intelligent Transport Systems from 1999 - 2000.

He is a general co-chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT2003) scheduled for June 2003. Dr. Kohno is currently an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and is the Chairman of the IEICE Technical Group on Software Radio.