Prof. Kouichi Sakurai

Kouichi Sakurai is a Professor at the Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan. He completed his PhD studies in Engineering at Kyushu University in 1993. He engaged in research and development on cryptography and information security at the Computer and Information Systems Laboratory at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation from 1988 to 1994. He is also concurrently working with the Institute of Systems & Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies as the chief of the Information Security Laboratory to promote research cooperation among the industry, university, and government under the theme “Enhancing IT-security in social systems”. He has successfully generated such cooperation between Japan, China, and Korea for security technologies as the leader of a Cooperative International Research Project supported by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) during 2005–2006. Moreover, in March 2006, he established research cooperation under a Memorandum of Understanding in the field of information security with Professor Bimal Kumar Roy, the first time Japan has partnered with The Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI). His research interests include AI cryptography, blockchain for social infrastructure, AI security, and cyber security.