Kenji Kono

	Name	Kenji Kono
	Affiliation	Department of Information and Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University
	Title	Professor
	Email	kono at ics_keio_ac_jp (replace _ with .)
	Address	3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223-8522 Japan
	TEL/FAX	+81-45-566-1802

Research Interests:

• operating systems
• internet Security
• distributed and parallel systems
• programming language systems

Research Projects:

The primary goal of our projects is to establish software technologies for building safe and secure Internet services. Recent technology trend has made the hardware cost of computing systems utterly cheap and unbelievably efficient, and shifted the dominant cost of ownership from hardware to management. This trend has changed the focus of systems software research; the focus is on manageability rather than performance. In particular, our research interest is in software architecture that eliminates or reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) of large-scale enterprise Internet servers. In the following projects, we are exploring novel ideas that lead to maintenance-free safe and secure Internet servers.

• Secure Platform Project: This project encompasses research on secure operating systems, firewalls, and network intrusion detection/prevention systems.
  
  
• Software platform for dependable, manageable, high performance Internet services: Growing needs of large-scale, mission-critical Internet services are demanding dependable computing systems. he goal of this project is to develop the software technology that turns a collection of cheap Linux boxes into high quality computing bases. Let's drive out expensive servers.
  
  
• Applying advanced technologies of programming languages to real system software programming: Inspite of the rapid progress of compilation techniques, system software is still developed by old-fashioned programming styles. This project aims to change the way of system programming. Developed are the RMI system, +10 times faster than traditional ones, that exploits dynamic specialization, and highly productive domain-specific languages for programming kernel schedulers and for developing application-level protocols.

Professional Services:

• A program committee member of ICPP 2005.
• A program committee member of PDCS 2005.
• A program committee member of PDCS 2006.
• A program committee member of ASIAN 2006.
• A program committee member of PDCS 2007.
• A program committee member of Int'l Conf. on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST 2009)
• A program committee member of IEEE Pacific Rim Int'l Symp. on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2010)
• A program committee member of Int'l Workshop on Open System Dependability (WOSD 2011
• A program committee member of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2012)

Awards:

• Annual Best Paper Award (Information Processing Society of Japan, 2000)
• Yamashita Memorial Research Award (Information Processing Society of Japan, 2000)
• Annual Best Paper Award (Information Processing Society of Japan, 2009)

Curriculum Vitae:

• Degrees:
• March 1993, Bachelor of Science from the University of Tokyo
• March 1995, Master of Science from the University of Tokyo
• January 2000, Doctor of Science from the University of Tokyo
  
  
• Working Experiences:
• 1995-1997, DC1, Japan Society of the Promotion of Science
• 1997-2000, Assistant Professor of the University of Tokyo
• 1999-2002, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation
• 2000-2003, Assistant Professor of the University of Electro-Communications
• 2003-2005, Associate Professor of the University of Electro-Communications
• 2005-2015, Associate Professor of Keio University
• 2015-, Professor of Keio University