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.
