Auteur: Makoto Onizuka

Zhenjiang Hu is the Dean and Chair Professor of the School of Computer Science at Peking University. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1988 and 1991, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1996. His primary research interests lie in programming languages and software engineering, with a focus on functional programming, bidirectional programming, and secure system software. He is a Fellow of the Japan Federation of Engineering Societies (JFES), a Fellow of IEEE, a member of the Engineering Academy of Japan, and a member of the Academia Europaea. Makoto Onizuka is a Professor at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University. He is the leader of Big data engineering Laboratory and conducts research on graph mining algorithms and AI-driven database query optimization techniques. Prior to joining Osaka University, he worked at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) for more than 20 years being served as a distinguished technical member from 2010 to 2014. He also worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Washington from 2000 to 2001. He developed research prototype systems and some of them were used in production: Lite Object (object-relational main memory database system), pg Boscage (XML database system), XMLToolkit (XML stream engine), CBo C type2 (Common IT Bases over Cloud Computing at NTT), and Grapon (Graph mining techniques). Masatoshi Yoshikawa is the Dean of the School of Data Science at Osaka Seikei University. He is a professor emeritus at Kyoto University. He received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Department of Information Science, Kyoto University in 1980, 1982 and 1985, respectively. His major research area has been databases. His current research topics include privacy protection technologies. He is a Fellow of Information Processing Society of Japan (DBSJ), a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), a member of the IEEE ICDE Steering Committee, and a member of the IEEE Big Comp Steering Committee.