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• • 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"

• • Nov. 2025 - present: Directeur de Recherch (DR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), at the Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Saint-Etienne, France

  • Nov. 2025 - present: Visiting Professor at Department of Information and Communications Engineering, School of Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo

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(Main) Research Keywords

• • 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 - Oct. 2025: Associate Professor at Hara Lab, Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo)

  • Nov. 2025 - present: Directeur de Recherch (DR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), at Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Saint-Etienne, France

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

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