Kenji Rikitake: Personal Profile

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Kenji Rikitake is a professor of the Acamemic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS) at Kyoto University. He has been solving the security, management, and operational issues of computer networks as a professional engineer of Internet since 1990. His background has gone from operating system internals and Internet foundation protocols to distributed system security and Erlang/OTP concurrent programming system. Since July 1992, he and his wife Kyoko Rikitake have been living in Toyonaka City, Osaka, Japan.

His current research topics are:

Computer technologies

Erlang/OTP
FreeBSD
Internet foundation protocols (TCP, UDP, IPv6)
Internet foundation applications (DNS, HTTP, Email, etc.)
Infrastructure operating system internals and management
Infrastructure programming languages (C, awk, Perl, Python, etc.)
Internet systems operation and management
Internet security management

Inter-cultural communication in Japanese and English
Other interests: Morse code, electronics, amateur radio, music

Click here for the list of Kenji's research papers.

Work Experience

April 2010 - present:
Professor, Information Security Laboratory, Collaborative Research Laboratories, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS), Kyoto University
(in accordance with Institute for Information Management and Communication (IIMC), Kyoto University)
(Also the chairman of Steering Committee of Information Security Management Office, IIMC, Kyoto University)
Strategic planning and consulting of engineering for Internet, information, and computer security of the information infrastructure of Kyoto University, including that of the campus network and information systems
April 2005 - March 2010:
Expert Researcher, Network Security Incident Response Group (formerly Security Advancement Group), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
- Architectural design of nicter incident response and analysis system
- DNS Security research on the transport layer issues
- Architectural research of NGN and IPv6 security issues
- Security enhancement research of Erlang/OTP concurrent programming system
May 2007 - May 2010:
Associate editor of IEICE Transactions of Communications
January 2001 - March 2005:
Senior Research Engineer, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc. DNS, IDS, and teleworking research, including the joint research of DNS security with Osaka University Cybermedia Center
March 2001 - present:
Certification of the Professional Engineer
Certified as a Gijyutsushi, Japanese government-licensed professional/consulting engineer, of information engineering since 14 March, 2001 (Gijyutsushi registration number: 45374)
April 1992 - December 2000:
Staff Engineer, Project Leader and Deputy Manager, TDI Research Center of Advanced Computer Network Technology
Corporate Internet development and operation, and WIDE Project Kyoto NOC operation support
April 1990 - April 1992:
Engineer, Digital Equipment Corporation Japan R&D Center Screen Management Library (SMGRTL) development for Asian VMS and VMS/Japanese development

University Degrees

Ph.D of Information Science, Osaka University (March 2005)
PhD thesis: A Study of DNS Transport Protocol for Improving the Reliability
Master of Engineering (for Information Engineering), University of Tokyo (March 1990)
Bachelor of Engineering (for Instrumentation Physics), University of Tokyo (March 1988)

Membership of professional/volunteer societies

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (Professional/Life Member, Senior Member since March 2009)
American Radio Relay League (Life Member)
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (Senior Member since May 2010)
Institution of Professional Engineers, Japan
Internet Society

If you would like to have the further correspondence in email, contact kenji.rikitake (at) acm.org.