Eng. Yukitsuna Furuya graduated from Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Japan in 1974. Right after that, he joined NEC Corporation in Japan. He has been engaged in the R&D of wireless communications, especially on mobile communications in Central Research Laboratories in NEC.

Currently, he is a Chief Engineer of Mobile Business Unite, covering both infrastructure and handset technology.

Since 1997, he worked on the IMT2000 standardization within Japan as a chairman of SWG2, Air Interface Layer 1 sub-working group.

In 2001, he moved to Mobile Terminal Division of NEC as a General Manager of 3G air interface related part development including chipset and protocol.

During March, 1999 - March, 2001, he worked as a chairman of 3GPP TSG-RAN, which is in charge of radio access network for WCDMA TD-CDMA and TSD-DMA, as a global standard.