Podcast/Video Interviews by Stephen Ibaraki

A Chat with Hironori Washizaki: Professor and the Associate Dean of the Research Promotion Division at Waseda University, Japan; IEEE Computer Society's immediate past president (2025)

This week, Stephen Ibaraki has an exclusive interview with Hironori Washizaki.

Hironori Washizaki is a professor and the associate dean of the Research Promotion Division at Waseda University, Japan. He is the IEEE Computer Society's immediate past president (2025), leading its activities and future directions. He has led professional and educational activities at the IEEE CS, including the evolution of the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) and the CS Juniors program. He is a visiting professor at the National Institute of Informatics and an advisor at the University of Human Environments. He also works in the industry as an outside director and advisor at eXmotion and SI&C.

He has led many academia-industry joint research and large-funded projects in systems and software requirements, design, reuse, quality assurance, and AI software engineering. He leads a professional IoT/AI/DX education project called "Smart SE." Since 2015, he has been the convenor of ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC7/WG20, which standardizes bodies of knowledge and certifications in systems and software engineering.