He received the B.S., M.S., and Dr. Eng. degrees from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, in 1979, 1981, and 1986, respectively. Since 1983 he has been with Hokkaido University. He is now Professor at Division of Information Communication Systems in Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University. From 1984 to 1985, he was a visiting researcher at Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, USA.
His research interests are in the areas of speech signal processing, wireless communication signal processing and low-power VLSI system design. He has published 3 books, 62 Transaction/Journal papers, 118 International Conference/Symposium/Workshop papers and more than 150 technical reports.
Dr. Miyanaga served as an associate editor of IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Science from 1996 to 1999, editors of IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals, Special Issues. He is also an associate editor of Journal of Signal Processing, RISP Japan (2005-present).
He was a secretary of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Technical Committee on Digital Signal Processing (IEEE CASS DSP TC) (2004-2006) and is its chair (2006-2008). He has been serving as a chair of international steering committee, IEEE ISPACS (2005-2007), IEEE ISCIT (2006-present) and IEICE SISA (2007-present). He is also an international steering committee member of IEEE ICME, IEEE/EURASIP NSIP, IEICE SISB et. al. He was a honorary chair and general chair/co-chairs of some international symposiums/workshops, i.e., ISPACS 2003, ITC-CSCC 2003, ISCIT 2004, ISCIT 2005, NSIP 2005 , ISCIT 2006, SISB 2007, ISPACS 2008, ISMAC 2009 and APSIPA ASC 2009.
