Kenji Rikitake's Profile
Kenji Rikitake has been solving the security, management, and operational issues of computer networks as a professional engineer of Internet since 1990. His background has gone from operating system internals and Internet foundation protocols to distributed system security and Erlang/OTP concurrent programming system.
Kenji was born in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan on 1965. Since July 1992, he and his spouse Kyoko Rikitake have been living in Toyonaka City, Osaka, Japan.
His current research topics on computer technologies are:
- Erlang/OTP
- Elixir
- FreeBSD
- Fundamental principles of distributed systems
- Distributed database
- Internet foundation protocols (TCP, UDP, IPv6)
- Internet foundation applications (DNS, HTTP, Email, etc.)
- Infrastructure operating system internals and management
- Infrastructure programming languages (C, awk, Perl, Python, etc.)
- Internet systems operation and management
- Internet security management
Click here for the list of Kenji's research papers.
Work Experience
April 21, 2014 - (current position):
February 2013 - September 2013:
- Senior Software Engineer, Basho Japan KK / Basho Technologies, Inc.
- Development of distributed database software Riak, Riak CS, and the related products
April 2011 - January 2013:
- Professor, IT Planning Office, IIMC, Kyoto University
- Strategic planning and consulting of engineering for Internet, information, and computer security of the information infrastructure of Kyoto University, including that of the campus network and information systems
April 2010 - January 2013:
- Professor, Information Security Laboratory, Collaborative Research Laboratories, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS), Kyoto University (in accordance with IIMC, Kyoto University)
- Internet security technology research for the massively concurrent and parallel distributed computing environment
April 2005 - March 2010:
- Expert Researcher, Network Security Incident Response Group (formerly Security Advancement Group), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
- 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
- Security enhancement research of Erlang/OTP concurrent programming system
May 2007 - May 2010:
- Associate editor of IEICE Transactions of Communications
January 2001 - March 2005:
- Senior Research Engineer, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc. DNS, IDS, and teleworking research, including the joint research of DNS security with Osaka University Cybermedia Center
March 2001 - present:
- Certification of the Professional Engineer
- Certified as a Gijyutsushi, Japanese government-licensed professional/consulting engineer, of information engineering since 14 March, 2001 (Gijyutsushi registration number: 45374)
April 1992 - December 2000:
- Staff Engineer, Project Leader and Deputy Manager, TDI Research Center of Advanced Computer Network Technology
- Corporate Internet development and operation, and WIDE Project Kyoto NOC operation support
April 1990 - April 1992:
- Engineer, Digital Equipment Corporation Japan R&D Center Screen Management Library (SMGRTL) development for Asian VMS and VMS/Japanese development
Kenji Rikitake's LinkedIn profile as of 11-MAY-2013 (pdf)
License/Certification
- University Degrees
- 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 March 2009)
- American Radio Relay League (Life Member)
- Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (Senior Member since May 2010)
- Institution of Professional Engineers, Japan
- Internet Society