Cryptography, Information Theory, and Coding Theory,
Dean of Faculty of Environment and Information Science,
Yokohama National University, Japan

Dr. Junji Shikata received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1994 and 1997, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 2000. From 2000 to 2002 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.   Since 2002 he has been with Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan. Currently, he is Professor, and Dean of Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Japan. His research interests include cryptology, information theory, theoretical computer science, and computational number theory. Dr. Shikata received several awards including the Wilkes Award 2006 from the British Computer Society.