Kazuya Kobayashi received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, fromWaseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 1977, 1979, and 1982, respectively. In 1982, he joined the Departmentof Electrical, Electronic, and Communication Engineering, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, where he has
been Professor since 1995. He held central management positions at Chuo University including, VicePresident (2006-2008), Director of International Center (2003-2006), and Secretary to President (2001-2003).
Dr. Kobayashi held Visiting Professor and Visiting Scientist positions at various institutions including:
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019); Karpenko Physico-Mechanical Instituteof the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine (2001, 2018); Physical Research Laboratory,Ahmedabad, India (2015); Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics of the National Academy of Sciences ofUkraine, Kharkov, Ukraine (2001); University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA (19871988). He has been Adjunct Professor at The Electromagnetics Academy at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou,
China (since 2004) and Honorary Professor, Amity University, Noida, India (since 2019).
Dr. Kobayashi received a number of distinguished awards including: The President’s Award (2020)
from URSI (International Union of Radio Science) for his leadership and untiring efforts in initiating,organizing and establishing AP-RASC as one of the URSI Flagship Meetings; The Governor’s Award (2018)from Toyama Prefectural Government, Japan for outstanding contribution to the promotion of tourism inToyama Prefecture and raising international recognition through the holding of large-scale international
conferences; JNTO Best International Convention Award (2016, 2018) from Japan National Tourism
Organization (JNTO), The Government of Japan for outstanding contribution to the invitation of large-scaleinternational congresses to Japan; M. A. Khizhnyak Award (2016) at “16th International Conference onMathematical Methods in Electromagnetic Theory” (MMET*2016) for contribution to electromagnetictheory.
Dr. Kobayashi is a Member of Science Council of Japan, a Fellow of The Electromagnetics Academy,
and a Fellow of URSI (International Union of Radio Science). He also serves as MICE Ambassador, JNTO
since 2016. He has held various important positions in the international radio science andelectromagnetics/optics communities including: Vice-President of URSI (since 2021); Vice-Chair (20142017) and Chair (2017-2021) of URSI Commission B; URSI Assistant Secretary-General AP-RASC (since2015); President (2008-2018) and Vice-President (since 2021) of the Japan National Committee of URSI;
Chair of the PIERS Awards Committee, The Electromagnetics Academy (since 2018); Series Editor of thebook series “Springer Series in Optical Sciences”, Springer Nature (since 2020); Editor of the journal “RadioScience” (since 2019).
Dr. Kobayashi has contributed significantly to organization of numerous international conferences
including PIERS (Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium) and URSI conferences as General
Chair, General Co-Chair, and Chair/Co-Chair of the Technical Program Committee. He is currently involvedin organizing “XXXV URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium” (URSI GASS 2023; August 2023,
Sapporo, Japan) as General Chair and Associate Scientific Program Coordinator.
His research interests are in the areas including: analytical regularization methods; Wiener-Hopfmethods; high-frequency methods; electromagnetic theory; canonical problems; scattering and diffraction;
radar cross section.