Kenji Rikitake: Personal Profile
(Japanese/Nihongo version available)
Kenji Rikitake is a Professional Engineer of Internet. He works on the
research and development activities of Internet, as well as solving
real-world operational and management issues of computer networks and
information systems since late 1980s. His latest activity focuses on
the security issues and incident prevention of Internet.
His current primary research topics are:
- Security and reliability issues of the Next Generation Network (NGN) and IPv6
- DNS Security and reliability
- Security incident analysis system development and the related technologies
- Teleworking for the professionals
His life-time primary major research fields are:
- Computer technologies
including networking, software, and hardware in details
- Internet foundation protocols
TCP, UDP, IPv4, IPv6, DNS(SEC)
(HTTP, handle.net, SIP, Mobile IPv6)
- Infrastructure technologies for developing wide-area large-scale distributed applications
FreeBSD, djbtools
(Erlang/OTP, Amazon Web Services)
- Programming languages and the environment for the Internet systems
C, awk, perl, Erlang
(Scheme/Gauche, JavaScript, C++/STL/boost)
- Inter-cultural communication in Japanese and English
focused on the computer and electronic/electric engineering
Keywords for the other life-time interests:
French language and francophone cultures, Korean language and culture,
Morse code, USA and Canada, Europe, electronics, amateur radio, music,
DJ, drum machines and music synthesizers, Creative Commons, free software
Click here for the list of my research papers.
Work Experience:
- Engineer, Digital Equipment Corporation Japan
(April 1990 - April 1992)
Screen Management Library (SMGRTL) development for Asian VMS and VMS/Japanese development
- Staff Engineer, Project Leader and Deputy Manager,
TDI Research Center of Advanced Computer Network Technology
(April 1992 - December 2000)
Corporate Internet development and operation, and WIDE Project Kyoto NOC operation support
- Certification of the Professional Engineer (March 2001 - present)
Certified as a Gijyutsushi, Japanese government-licensed professional/consulting engineer, of information engineering since 14 March, 2001 (Gijyutsushi registration number: 45374)
- Senior Research Engineer, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc. (January 2001 - March 2005)
DNS, IDS, and teleworking research, including the joint research of DNS security with
Osaka University Cybermedia Center
- Expert Researcher, Security Advancement Group, National Institute of
Information and Communications Technology, Japan (April 2005 - March 2006)
- Expert Researcher, Network Security Incident Response Group,
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
(April 2006 - present)
Architectural design of nicter incident response and analysis system, DNS Security research on the transport layer issues, and the architectural research of NGN and IPv6 security issues
University Degrees Achieved:
Membership of professional/volunteer societies:
More personal data on where I have lived:
- 1965: born in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- 1965 - February 1974: lived in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- March 1974 - May 1975: lived in Boulder, Colorado, USA
- June 1975 - July 1992: lived in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- July 1992 - present: living in Toyonaka City, Osaka, Japan
with my wife Kyoko Rikitake
Last update: July 23, 2008
RCS Revision: $Revision: 4.23 $
If you would like to have the further correspondence in email,
contact kenji.rikitake (at) acm.org. I will not guarantee whether I
will or will not respond to each message.
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