Prof. Kiyoshi Honda, after graduation from Nara Medical University on 1976, spent four year at Univ. Tokyo Hospital and then started voice and speech research at the Research Institute of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (RILP), Univ. Tokyo, and at Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, USA, as a research associate. He moved to Kanazawa Institute of Technology to be an associate professor at Dept. Electronics on 1986. Then, he joined the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR-I) on 1991 to continue voice and speech research as a supervisor. He also spent three years at Univ. Wisconsin for the X-ray microbeam project as a senior researcher. He moved to Phonetics and Phonology Lab, CNRS-Univ. Paris III, France, on 2006, and he is currently a professor of Tianjin University for the School of Computer Science and Technology, under the foreigner 1000-plan program. His research interest includes anatomy/physiology of speech organs, acoustic/articulatory phonetics, electronic instrumentation techniques, and MRI-based visualization techniques. He has developed stereo-endoscopy, high-speed digital imaging, non-invasive photoglottography, and vocal-tract imaging methods.