Ongoing Projects
Position
CHStone: The benchmark suite for C-based high-level synthesis
代表者,JST CREST "Trustworthy IoTシステム設計基盤の構築"(S5基盤)
代表者,JSPS 基盤(B) "スケーラブルかつセキュアな組込みハードウェア設計技術の基盤構築"
代表者,JSPS 国際共同研究加速基金(海外連携研究)"リサイクル半導体を活用したサステイナブルかつセキュアIoTプラットフォームの構築"
代表者,JSPS 二国間交流事業共同研究 (FWO) "組込みシステムセキュリティの保護と解析"
Apr. 2016 - present: Associate Professor at Hara Lab, Department of Information and Communications Engineering, School of Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo
Apr. 2023 - present: Research Area Adviser for JST ACT-X "Next AI-Math-Info"
Contact
(Main) Research Keywords
E-mail: hara_at_cad_dot_ict_dot_e_dot_titech_dot_ac_dot_jp
Mailing Address: S3-50, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro 152-8552, Tokyo
Office: South Bldg. 3-317, Ookayama Campus
TEL/FAX: +81-3-5734-2914
Education
Apr. 2002 - Mar. 2006 : B.E. in Information Engineering, Nagoya University
Apr. 2006 - Mar. 2008 : M.E. in Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University
Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2010 : D.E. in Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University (Takada Lab)
Application-Specific Instruction set Processor (ASIP) - 特定用途向けプロセッサ
Computer Aided Design (CAD) - CAD
Cybersecurity - サイバーセキュリティ
Distributed computing - 分散コンピューティング
Domain-Specific Architecture (DSA) - ドメイン特化型アーキテクチャ
Edge computing - エッジコンピューティング
Electronic Design Automation (EDA) - 設計自動化
Embedded systems - 組込みシステム
Hardware security - ハードウェアセキュリティ
High-level synthesis - 高位合成
Instruction-set architecture (ISA) extension - 命令セットアーキテクチャ拡張
Internet-of-Things (IoT) - モノのインターネット
Machine learning - 機械学習
Cryptography with Advanced Functionality - 高機能暗号
Reconfigurable device/FPGA - 再構成可能デバイス/FPGA
System-level design - システムレベル設計
Job History
Research Interests
Sep. 2006 - Oct. 2006 : Research Intern at NEC System Technologies, Ltd.
Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2010 : Research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC1) at Takada Lab (ERTL), Nagoya University
Jul. 2010 - Dec. 2010 : Visiting scholar at Dutt Research Group, University of California, Irvine -> [CECS eNEWS]
Apr. 2010 - Mar. 2011: Visiting scholar at Tomiyama Lab (SLDM Lab), Ritsumeikan University
Apr. 2010 - Mar. 2011: Research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD) at Takada Lab (ERTL), Nagoya University
Sep. 2011 - Mar. 2012: Visiting scholar at Dutt Research Group, University of California, Irvine
Apr. 2012 - May 2012 : Visiting scientist at Chair for Embedded Systems (CES), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany -> [CES Events/News]
Apr. 2011 - May 2012 : Research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD) at Next Generation Computing (NGC Lab), Ritsumeikan University
Jun. 2012 - Dec. 2013: Assistant Professor at Computing Architecture Lab., Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
Jan. 2014 - Mar. 2016: Associate Professor at Hara Lab, Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITECH)
Apr. 2016 - Sept. 2024: Associate Professor at Hara Lab, Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITECH)
Apr. 2023 - Jul. 2023: Visiting Scholar at COSIC, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (Hosts: Dr. Svetla Nikova and Prof. Vincent Rijmen)
Feb. 2024 - Mar. 2024: Visiting Scholar at the Cybersecurity Research Center, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (Host: Jan Tobias Mühlberg)
Mar. 2025: Visiting Scholar at Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, France (Host: Prof. Lilian Bossuet)
Oct. 2024 - present: Associate Professor at Hara Lab, Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo)
My research interests include, but not limited to:
System-level design methodology for IoT and embedded systems
High-level and logic synthesis
Benchmark suite for C-based high-level synthesis [CHStone][CHPBench]
Instruction set architecture (ISA) synthesis
Hardware/software co-design
Approximate computing
FPGA designs
Hardware security
Cybersecurity
Hardware IP protection
Computer architecture
eHealth
Edge/distributed computing
Machine learning
Distributed machine learning
Intrusion detection
Neural Architecture Search (NAS)
Split computing
Society Membership
Links (about me)
Last update: Sept. 10, 2025