Prof. Takahiro Ogawa joined the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, in 2008, where he is currently a Professor with the Faculty of Information Science and Technology. He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electronics and information engineering from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 2003, 2005, and 2007, respectively. He is a member of ACM, IEICE, and ITE. He was a Special Session Chair of the IEEE ISCE 2009, the Ph.D. Symposium Chair of ACM ICMR 2018, an Organized Session Chair of the IEEE GCCE, from 2017 to 2019, a TPC Vice Chair of the IEEE GCCE 2018, a Conference Chair of the IEEE GCCE 2019, and so on. His research interests include AI, the IoT, and big data analysis for multimedia signal processing and its applications.