Education
Ph.D., Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Univ. 1993. (Title: Studies on the Efficiency and the Security of Cryptographic Protocols based on the Zero-Knowledge Techniques(Supervised by Prof. Kazuo Iwama))
M.Sc., Applied Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Univ. 1988. (Title: Fuchsian systems associated with the P2(F2)-arrangement)
B.Sc., Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Kyushu Univ. 1986.
Professional Experience
2002.4-present: Full Professor at the Dept. of Computer Science of Kyushu Univ.
1994.3-2002.3: Associate Professor at the Dept. of Computer Science of Kyushu Univ.
1997.9-1998.9: Visiting Scholar (sponsored by Prof. Zvi Galil) at the Dept. of Computer Science, Columbia Univ.
1988.4-1994.2: Research Engineer, Mitsubishi Electroric Corp. Computer & Information Systems Lab., Research and development of cryptography and information security, supervised by Dr. Tohru INOUE and Mr. Atsuhiro Yamagishi.
Professional Activities
Kouichi Sakurai has been working for JTC1 ISO/IEC SC27/WG2 as the chair of Japan and as the head of Japanese delegates since 1999. And he had edited “Encryption algorithms, Stream ciphers” of ISO/IEC 18033-4. Furthermore, he is now working as the reporter on “RoadMap of SC27/WG2”. He is concurrently working also with Institute of Systems & Information Technologies and Nano-technologies, as the chief of Information Security laboratory, for promoting research corporations among the industry-university-government under the theme “Enhancing IT-security in social systems. And he have handled with the industry-university-government cooperation of Japan, China and Korea for the security technologies as the leader of a Cooperative International Research Project accepted by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) during 2005-2006. Moreover, he established research corporations with Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in the field of information security with Professor Bimal Kumar Roy, which is the first Japanese partner time for The Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI), at March 2006.
