Masaru Kitsuregawa
Masaru Kitsuregawa is Director of the National Institute of Informatics and Professor at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo. D. from the University of Tokyo in 1983. He has held various positions, including President of the Information Processing Society of Japan (2013-2015) and Chairman of the Committee for Informatics of the Science Council of Japan (2014-2016). He has many research interests, particularly in the field of database engineering. He has received numerous awards, including the ACM SIGMOD E. F.