Kohei Shiomoto is a Senior Research Engineer, Supervisor, at NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Japan. He joined the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Tokyo, Japan in April 1989, where he was engaged in research and development of ATM traffic control and ATM switching system architecture design. From August 1996 to September 1997, he was engaged in research on high-speed networking as a Visiting Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA. From September 1997 to June 2001, he was directing architecture design for high-speed IP/MPLS label switch router research project at NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan. Since July 2001 he has been engaged in the research fields of photonic IP router design, routing algorithm, and GMPLS routing and signaling standardization at NTT Network Innovation Laboratories.

He received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. from Osaka University, Japan, in 1987, 1989, and 1998. He is a member of IEICE, IEEE, and ACM. He served a Secretary of International Relations of the Communications Society of IEICE from June 2003 to May 2005. He is a Vice Chair of Information Service of IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Board from January 2004 to December 2005. He was engaged in organization of several international conferences including ICCCN 2000, HPSR 2002, WTC 2002, MPLS2003, MPLS 2004, HPSR 2004, WTC 2004, MPLS 2005, and WTC 2006. He received the Young Engineer Award from the IEICE in 1995.