KITSUREGAWA Masaru

Director-General of National Institute of Informatics and Professor at Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. Received Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1983. Served in various positions such as President of Information Processing Society of Japan (2013–2015) and Chairman of Committee for Informatics, Science Council of Japan（2014-2016）. He has wide research interests, especially in database engineering. He has received many awards including ACM SIGMOD E. F. Codd Innovations Award, IEICE Contribution Award, IPSJ Contribution Award, 21st Century Invention Award of National Commendation for Invention, Japan and C&C Prize, IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award and Japan Academy Award. In 2013, he awarded Medal with Purple Ribbon and in 2016, the Chevalier de la Legion D’Honneur. He is a fellow of ACM, IEEE, IEICE and IPSJ, also CCF honorary member.