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 technologies for computer 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
- Infrastructure technologies for developing wide-area large-scale distributed applications
  FreeBSD, sysadmin tools, Erlang/OTP
- Programming languages and the environment for the Internet systems
  C, awk, Python, Erlang
Inter-cultural communication in Japanese and English
focused on the computer and electronic/electric engineering

Keywords for the other life-time interests:
Morse code, electronics, amateur radio, music

Click here for the list of my research papers.

Work Experience:

Expert Researcher, Network Security Incident Response Group (formerly Security Advancement Group), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan (April 2005 - March 2010)
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, and security enhancement research of Erlang/OTP concurrent programming system
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
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)
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
Engineer, Digital Equipment Corporation Japan (April 1990 - April 1992)
Screen Management Library (SMGRTL) development for Asian VMS and VMS/Japanese development

University Degrees Achieved:

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 2009)
American Radio Relay League (Life Member)
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Associate editor of IEICE Transactions of Communications (May 2007 - present)
Institution of Professional Engineers, Japan
Internet Society

More personal data on where I have lived:

July 1992 - present: living in Toyonaka City, Osaka, Japan
with my wife Kyoko Rikitake
June 1975 - July 1992: lived in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
March 1974 - May 1975: lived in Boulder, Colorado, USA
1965 - February 1974: lived in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
1965: born in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Last update: December 5, 2009
RCS Revision: $Revision: 4.33 $

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.