Kouichi Sakurai

Kouichi Sakurai received the B.S. degree in mathematics from the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, in 1986. He received the M.S. degree in applied science in 1988, and the Doctorate in engineering in 1993 from the Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University. He was engaged in research and development on cryptography at the Computer and Information Systems Laboratory at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation from 1988 to 1994. From 1994, he worked for the Dept. of Computer Science of Kyushu University in the capacity of Associate Professor and became Full Professor there in 2002. Now he is also working also with Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories and Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) as Visiting Researcher with information security. Professor Sakurai has published more than 400 academic papers around cryptography and information security.