Dr. Shinji Shimojo

Dr. Shinji Shimojo received the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University in 1983 and 1986, respectively. He was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Information and Computer Sciences, and an Associate Professor with Computation Center each at Osaka University. During this period, he also worked for a year as a Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Irvine. He has been a Professor with the Cybermedia Center at Osaka University since 1998, and served as its director from 2005 to 2008. He is now working for NICT. His current research work is focusing on a wide variety of multimedia applications, peer-to-peer communication networks, ubiquitous network systems, and Grid technologies. He was awarded the Osaka Science Prize in 2005. He is a member of IEEE, IPSJ, and IEICE.