Echizen Laboratory National Institute of Informatics (NII)

 

Department of Information and Communication Engineering,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo

 

Department of Informatics, School of Multidisciplinary Sciences,
The Graduate University For Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)

Isao Echizen

Isao Echizen
Director / Professor, Information and Society Research Division, National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Director, Global Research Center for Synthetic Media, National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Professor, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
Professor, Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)

2-1-2, Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-8430, JAPAN
E-mail : iechizen-[at]-nii.ac.jp
TEL: +81-3-4212-2516
FAX: +81-3-4212-2120

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Doctral degree 2003, Ph. D., Tokyo Institute of Technology
Education March, 1995: B.S.(Applied Physics), Tokyo Institute of Technology
March, 1997: M.S.(Applied Physics), Tokyo Institute of Technology
Career
April, 1997 - March, 2007:
Systems Development Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
April, 2007 - March, 2014:
Associate Professor, Digital Content and Media Sciences
Research Division, National Institute of Informatics
April, 2007 - March, 2014:
Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, School of Multidisciplinary Sciences, The Graduate University for
Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
April, 2010:
Visiting Professor, Institute of Computer Science and Social
Studies, University of Freiburg
October, 2011:
Visiting Professor, University of Halle-Wittenberg
April, 2014 - March, 2017:
Professor, Digital Content and Media Sciences
Research Division, National Institute of Informatics
April, 2014 - March, 2023:
Professor, Department of Informatics, School of
Multidisciplinary Sciences, The Graduate University for
Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
April, 2016 - March, 2020:
Scientific Research Senior Specialist, Research Promotion Bureau,
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
April, 2017 - March, 2018:
Advisor to the Director General, National Institute of Informatics
April, 2017 - March 2019:
Director, Information and Society Research Division,
National Institute of Informatics
April, 2017 - Current:
Professor, Information and Society Research Division,
National Institute of Informatics
April, 2017 - March, 2021:
Visiting Professor, Tsuda University
April, 2017 - Current:
Visiting Professor, Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research
April, 2018 - March, 2019:
Deputy Director General, National Institute of Informatics
April, 2019 - March, 2020:
Acting Director General / Deputy Director General, National Institute of Informatics
April, 2019 - Current:
Professor, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
April, 2020 - March, 2021:
Advisor to the Director General, National Institute of Informatics
April, 2020 - Current:
Japanese representative, IFIP TC11 (Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems).
December, 2020 - Current:
Research Director, Social Information Technologies to Counter Infodemics, JST CREST
April, 2021 - Current:
Director, Information and Society Research Division, National Institute of Informatics
July, 2021 - Current:
Director, Global Research Center for Synthetic Media, National Institute of Informatics (NII)
April, 2022 – March, 2023:
Deputy Dean, School of Multidisciplinary Sciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
April, 2023 – Current:
Professor, Department of Informatics, Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
Awards
September, 2023:
BTAS/IJCB 5-Year Highest Impact Award, IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics
July, 2023:
IEICE-ISS Excellent Paper Award, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
June, 2023:
Best paper award, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
November, 2018:
Best Poster Award, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference 2018 (APSIPA ASC 2018) (won by student)
December, 2017:
Best paper award, the 9th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security 2017 (WIFS2017)
November, 2017:
Best paper award, the 16th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society (IFIP I3E2017)
March, 2017:
Fellow, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
September, 2016:
Best paper award, the 15th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society (IFIP I3E2016)
March, 2016:
Award for the Contribution to Culture of Security, Institute of Information Security
October, 2014:
DoCoMo Mobile Science Award, Mobile Communication Fund
June, 2014:
Best paper award, Information Processing Society of Japan
June, 2011:
Nagao Special Researcher Award, Information Processing Society of Japan
November, 2011:
Best Poster Award, the 6th International Workshop on Security
(IWSEC11)
June, 2011:
IPSJ Nagao Special Researcher Award, Information Processing
Society of Japan
January, 2011:
One of the best papers, the 25th IFIP International Information
Security Conference (IFIP SEC 2010)
June, 2010:
Image Electronics Technology Award, The Institute of Image
Electronics Engineers of Japan
May, 2010:
Fujio Frontier Award, The Institute of Image Information and
Television Engineers of Japan
November, 2009:
Gerd Griesser Award, the International Medical Informatics Association
WG4 Security in Health Information Systems (IMIA SiHIS)
October, 2008:
IEICE Information and Systems Society, Distinguished Service Award
December, 2006:
Best paper award, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent
Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIHMSP06)
May, 2005:
Best paper award, Information Processing Society of Japan
December, 2000:
Hitachi President's award for technology
Academic
Activities
 
  • Member, Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS TC), IEEE Signal Processing Society (2016.12-)
  • Scientific Board Member, SBA Research, Austria (2017.10-)
  • IFIP TC8-information systems: WG8.4- E-Business Information Systems: Multi-disciplinary research and practice, WG Secretary (2014.5-)
  • Conference chair
  • The 9th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and
    Multimedia Signal Processing (IIHMSP2013)
  • Organizing chair
  • International Workshop on Digital-Forensics and Watermarking (IWDW2015)
  • Workshop chair
  • Workshop on Privacy by Transparency in Data-Centric Services
    (PTDCS 2015)
  • International Workshop on Resilience and ICT for Secure Open Cities
    (RISI2012, RISI2013, RISI2014)
  • NII Shonan Meeting, Privacy by Transparency for Data-Centric Services,
    co-organizer (2013)
  • International Workshop on Resilience and ICT for Secure Open Cities
    (ReISOC2011)
  • Program chair
  • IFIP Information & Communication Technology-EurAsia Conference
  •  (ICT-EURASIA 2014, ICT-EURASIA 2015)
  • The IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and  Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP2010, IIH-MSP2015, IIH-MSP2016)
  • The 5th International Workshop on Security (IWSEC2010)
  • Publication chair
  • International Workshop on Security (IWSEC2007, IWSEC2008, IWSEC2009)
  • The 8th International Conference on Cryptology And Network Security
    (CANS2009)
  • Local arrangement chair
  • IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Service, e-Society 2008 (I3E'08)
  • Invited session chair
  • IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia
    Signal Processing (IIH-MSP2006, IIH-MSP2007, IIH-MSP2008, IIH-MSP2009, IIH-MSP2017)
  • Organizing committee member
  • International Conference on Provable Security (ProvSec 2015)
  • 150 Year Japan-Germany Friendship Symposium: Transport and Mobility –
    Challenges for the Future (hold in Tokyo, Japan and funded by the Japanese
    Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and JSPS German Alumni Club)
    (2010)
  • Japan-Austria Workshop on “ICT” (hold in Tokyo, Japan and funded by the
    Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)) (2010)
  • Editorial positions and boards
  • Journal of Information Processing (JIP), Associate editor (2008-2012)
  • IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Associate editor (2004-2008)
  • Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, Associate editor
    (2009-2012)
  • Special issue on Secure Communications, Telecommunication Systems,
    Springer, Guest editor (2014)
  • Special issue on Enriched Multimedia, IEICE Transactions on Information and
    Systems, Guest Editor-in-Chief (2015, 2016)
  • Business & Information Systems Engineering (WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK),
    Editorial board member (2009-)
  • Special issue on Sustainable Cloud Computing, Business & Information Systems Engineering (WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK), Guest editor (2009-2010)
  • Special Issue on Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing,
    International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control (IJICIC),
    Guest editor (2008-2009)
  • Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, Springer, Associate editor
    (2014-)
  • Journal of Innovation in Digital Ecosystems, Elsevier, Editorial board member (2014-)
  • Special Issue on Innovations in Communications Security, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hindawi, Guest editor (2016)
  • Special Issue on Recent Advances in Multimedia Watermarking and Forensics, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hindawi, Guest editor (2016)
  • Program Committee Member
  • ACM Multimedia (ACMMM2012, ACMMM2013, ACMMM2017)
  • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2013, ICME2014, ICME2015, ICME2016, ICME2017)
  • ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC2017)
  • IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and
    Applications (AINA2011, AINA2014, AINA2016, AINA2017)
  • IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology and Enterprise Computing,
    E-Commerce and E-Services (CEC'08/EEE'08, CEC'09/EEE'09,
    CEC2010/EEE2010, CEC2011/EEE2011)
  • IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia
    Signal Processing (IIH-MSP2006, IIH-MSP2008, IIH-MSP2009,
    IIH-MSP2011, IIH-MSP2012)
  • International Workshop on Security (IWSEC2011, IWSEC2012, IWSEC2013, IWSEC2014)
  • Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association, Annual Summit and
    Conference (APSIPA2009, APSIPA2010, APSIPA2011)
  • COMPSAC Workshop on Security Aspects of Process and Services Engineering
    (SAPSE2009, SAPSE2010, SAPSE2011, SAPSE2012, SAPSE2013)
  • International Workshop on Digital-Forensics and Watermarking (IWDW2014, IWDW2016, IWDW2017)
  • International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy
    (ICISSP2015, ICISSP2016, ICISSP2017, ICISSP2018)
  • International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM2013)
  • The 21st ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT2016, SACMAT2017)
  • etc.