News
- June 2024 - A new paper has been accepted to Fourth Workshop on DRAM Security (DRAMSec).
- April 2024 - Our paper has been chosen as a recipient of IPSJ Outstanding Paper Award in AY 2023.
Education
| 07/1987 | Born in Kyoto, Japan |
| 03/2010 | B.Eng.,  Kyoto University (Advisor: Prof. Hiroshi G. Okuno) |
| 03/2012 | M.Sc.,  Dept. of Creative Informatics, The University of Tokyo (Advisor: Prof. Shinichi Honiden) |
| 03/2015 |
Ph.D., Dept. of Creative Informatics, The University of Tokyo (Advisor: Prof. Shinichi Honiden) Thesis: Reducing Energy Consumption of Data Centers by Improving Virtual Machine Live Migration 
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Full-time Working Experiences
| 04/2015 - 10/2015 | Researcher, Software Innovation Center, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) |
| 11/2015 - 05/2018 | Researcher, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) *I was tentatively a post-doc for a month, then worked as a researcher |
| 06/2018 - 03/2022 | Assistant Professor, Department of Creative Informatics, The University of Tokyo |
| 04/2022 - Today | Associate Professor, Security and Network Course, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University |
Other Experiences
| 07/2011 - 08/2011 | Intern, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) |
| 05/2013 - 08/2013 | Intern, Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA, U.S.), mentored by Dr. Gabriel Kliot |
| 04/2013 - 03/2015 | JSPS Research Fellow DC2, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
| 04/2019 - 10/2019 | Academic Guest, Dept. of Computer Science, ETH Zurich (hosted by Prof. Onur Mutlu) |
| 10/2018 - 09/2020 | Technical Advisor, i Smart Technologies *part-time consultant job |
| 04/2020 - 09/2020, 04/2021 - 09/2021 | External Lecturer, Grad. School of Science and Technology for Future Life, Tokyo Denki University |
| 06/2022 - 05/2023 | Visiting Researcher, Department of Creative Informatics, The University of Tokyo |
Awards and Honors
- IPSJ Outstanding Paper Award, June 2024 (Details in Japanese)
- IPSJ SIGARC Young Researcher Award, January 2022 (details in Japanese)
- Excellent Presentation Award, IEICE Technical Committee on Computer Systems (CPSY), September 2020
- Excellent Presentation Award, IEICE Technical Committee on Computer Systems (CPSY), July 2019
- IPSJ Computer Science Research Award for Young Scientists, August 2018 (details in Japanese)
- Endorsement to my Ph.D. thesis by IPSJ SIG-OS, June 2015 (details in Japanese)
- Dean's Award, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, March 2015
- My line is cited in an AAAI'15 paper! (See the "Introduction")
- Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, April 2013 - March 2015
Accepted: 1222 / Applicants: 4715 = 25.9% - IPSJ Computer Science Research Award for Young Scientists, July 2012 (details in Japanese)
- 2nd place out of 7 speakers, Student Presentations Session, LinuxCon Japan 2012 (no official record)
- Best Paper Award in ComSys 2011, 1st place out of 11 accepted papers
- Student Poster-Demonstration Award in ComSys 2011, 1st place out of all student posters and demos
Public Services
- Organizing Activities
- Associate Editor-in-Chief, IPSJ Transactions on Advanced Computing Systems (ACS), 04/2024 -
- LA Chair, 15th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2024)
- PC Member, The 8th Cross-disciplinary Workshop on Computing Systems, Infrastructures, and Programming (xSIG 2024)
- Board Member, SIG-OS, Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), 04/2023 - Today
- PC Member, The 7th Cross-disciplinary Workshop on Computing Systems, Infrastructures, and Programming (xSIG 2023)
- Mentor, Experts in Information Science Program, 04/2022 - Today
- Committee Member, SIG-ARC, Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), 04/2022 - Today
- Committee Member, SIG-OS, Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), 04/2022 - 03/2023
- PC Member, The 6th Cross-disciplinary Workshop on Computing Systems, Infrastructures, and Programming (xSIG 2022)
- Editorial Board Member, IPSJ Transactions on Advanced Computing Systems (ACS), 04/2021 - 03/2024
- Ph.D. Forum Chair, 39th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2020)
- Publicity Chair, 11th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2020)
- PC Member, ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2020 (CF 2020)
- PC Member, 38th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2019)
- Associate Editor, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 06/2019 - 05/2023
- Mentor, The First Young Architect Workshop (YArch), co-located with 25th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2019)
- Program Co-Chair, The 7th IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA 2018)
- Publicity Co-Chair, 37th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2018)
- Publicity Chair (for Asia region), The European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2018)
- PC Member, IEEE 12th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC-2018), Track 8: Operating Systems Platforms for Real-Time Embedded Applications
- Committee Member, SIG-OS, Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), 04/2017 - 03/2021
- External Reviewer
- The Journal of Supercomputing: 2023
- International Journal on Engine Research: 2020
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC): 2020
- IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC): 2019
- IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC): 2017 (List of Reviewers), 2016 (List of Reviewers), 2015
- IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems: 2019, 2018
- IEICE Transactions on Communications: 2018, 2017
- IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA): 2017
- IEEE International Conference on e-Science (eScience): 2017
- OSS contributions
- The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (Japanese Edition): Translation into Japanese (Pull Request)
- Processor Counter Monitor (PCM): Pull Requests, Issues
- Linux: Tiny fixes to the perf tool
- Chainer (neural network framework): Pull Requests, Issues
- QEMU (processor emulator): A timing bug fix
- SAI (switch abstraction interface): Pull Requests
- SlackStream (all-at-a-glance viewer of Slack messages)
Grants
- Co-PI, Scientific Research (B), Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2023/04 - 2026/03
- PI, PRESTO, Strategic Basic Research Programs, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 2022/10 - 2026/03
- Co-PI, Scientific Research (B), Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2022/04 - 2026/03
- PI, ACT-I (Acceleration Phase), Strategic Basic Research Programs, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 13750 K JPY, 2020/04 - 2022/03
- PI, ACT-I, Strategic Basic Research Programs, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 3000 K JPY, 2018/10 - 2020/03
- PI, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2000 K JPY, 2013/04 - 2015/03
Collaborative Research
- The Research Association of Automotive Internal Combustion Engines (AICE), 2019/4 - 2021/3
Research on controlling engines with artificial intelligence technologies
Teaching
- 2022, 2023
- Operating Systems, Autumn Semester, Ritsumeikan University
- Programming Practice 1, Autumn Semester, Ritsumeikan University
- Advanced Topics in System Program, Spring Semester, Ritsumeikan University
- Security and Network Lab 1, Spring Semester, Ritsumeikan University
- 2021
- Introduction to Algorithms (Course Assistance), The University of Tokyo, 2021 Semester A
- Software Cloud Development Project Practice II (Course Assistance), The University of Tokyo, 2021 Semester A
- Software Cloud Development Project Practice I (Course Assistance), The University of Tokyo, 2021 Semester S
Lecture slides: Part 1, Part 2 - Functions and Structures of Operating Systems (Main Lecturer), Tokyo Denki University, FY 2021
- 2020
- Introduction to Algorithms (Course Assistance), The University of Tokyo, 2020 Semester A
- Functions and Structures of Operating Systems (Main Lecturer), Tokyo Denki University, FY 2020
- 2019
- Software Cloud Development Project Practice II (Course Assistance), The University of Tokyo, 2019 Semester A
- Introduction to Algorithms (Course Assistance), The University of Tokyo, 2019 Semester A
- 2018
- Introduction to Algorithms (Course Assistance), The University of Tokyo, 2018 Semester A