Junichi Suzuki, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Boston, MA 02125-3393
USA

E-mail: jxs [at] cs . umb . edu
Web: http://www.cs.umb.edu/~jxs/, http://dssg.cs.umb.edu/

• Research Interests
• Summary of Education and Employment
  • Education
  • Academic Employment
  • Industrial Employment
• Research Experience
• Teaching Experience
  • Lectures
  • Course Development
  • Course Redesign
  • Short Courses
  • Mentoring
• Industrial Experience
• Honors and Awards
• Professional Activities
• University/Department Service
• Grants and Supports
• Publications
• Trade Journal Publications
• Tutorials and Invited Talks
• References

• Autonomous, adaptive and survivable distributed systems (e.g., Internet data centers, grid/cloud platforms and wireless sensor networks)
• Middleware design, implementation and evaluation
• Biologically-inspired (e.g., genetic, immune, developmental and ecological) software designs
• Evolutionary optimization algorithms
• Game theoretic approaches for self-stabilizing distributed systems
• Model-driven software and performance engineering
• Service-oriented computing
• Object-oriented and aspect-oriented programming
• Domain-specific languages and modeling
• Object-oriented modeling, software patterns and frameworks

• Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science (March 2001)
    Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, Japan
    Dissertation: Biologically-inspired Autonomous Adaptability in Communication Endsystem: An Approach Using an Artificial Immune Network
    Advisor: Professor Yoshikazu Yamamoto

• Academic Appointment
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston (September 2004--present)
    

  • Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine (January 2001--June 2004)
    

  • Part-time Lecturer, Department of Economics, Keio University, Japan (April 2000--March 2001)

• Industrial Appointment
  • Advisory Board Member and Part-time Chief Scientist, Object Technology Institute, Inc., Japan (January 2003--Present)
  • Advisory Board Member, CUTE (CORBA/UML User Training Environment) Consortium (May 2001--Present)
  • Advisory Board Member, Software Engineering Center, Osaka Gas Information System Research Institute Co., Ltd., Japan (April 2001--Present)
  • Advisory Board Member, Object Management Group Japan, Inc. (April 2002--December 2002)
  • Advisory Board Member, Synergy Research Corporation, Japan (October 2001--December 2002)
  • Technical Director, Object Management Group Japan, Inc., Japan (September 2000--December 2000)
  • Visiting Researcher, Institute for Social Engineering, Inc., Japan (April 1998--December 2000)
  • Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Tech Atlas Communications, Inc., Austin, TX (January 1997--December 1998)
  • Software Architect (1992--1996), Technical Director (1996--2000), Consulting Division, Soken Planning, Co. Ltd., Japan

See a list of the on-going and past research projects.

• Lectures
  • CS681: Advanced Software Engineering
    Fall 04, Fall 05, Spring 07, Spring 08
    Departmentof Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
    

  • CS682 and CS683: Advanced Software Development I and II
    Fall 04, Spring 05, Fall 05, Spring 06, Fall 06, Spring 07
    Departmentof Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
    

  • CS697B: Special Topics on Concurrent and Distributed Systems Design
    Fall 07
    Departmentof Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
    

  • CS680: Object-Oriented Design and Programming
    Fall 07
    Departmentof Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
    

  • Introductory Computer Science Course
    Spring 00, Fall 00
    Part-time Lecturer, Department of Economics, Keio University

    Taught an undergraduate course on introductory computer science. Gave a 1.5 hours lecture in front of over 80 students every week throughout the academic year of 2000 (two semesters). The course covered the basics of programming (Pascal and Visual Basic/VBA), data structures, algorithms and system analysis/design.

  • Realtime Distributed Computing Lab
    Spring 98, Fall 98
    Teaching assistant, Department of Information and Computer Science, Keio University
• Course Development
  • CS697B: Special Topics on Concurrent and Distributed Systems Design
    Fall 07
    Departmentof Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
    

  • Development of Courses on Distributed Computing and Software Engineering
    CUTE (CORBA/UML User Training Environment, www.cute-c.org) project (October 2000--March 2001)

    Designed 3 online courses on distributed computing and software engineering (www.cute-c.org), and co-developed course materials for the courses. The distributed computing course cover the architectures and programming models of distributed object middleware, particularly CORBA. The software engineering course covers the object-oriented system analysis and design, particularly with UML. The CUTE web site contains course materials of 396 pages and maintains approximately 5,000 registered users. The CUTE project was funded by the Information Technology Promotion Agency, Japan, which is similar to NSF in the US.

• Course Redesign
  • CS681: Advanced Software Engineering
    Fall 04
    Departmentof Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
    

    Redesigned this course to cover contemporary software engineering topics.

• Short Courses

  Taught over 90 short courses (1/2 day to 3 days for each course) for professional institutions. The courses covered distributed computing (e.g. architectures, programming models and techniques for distributed systems), operating systems (e.g. concurrent thread scheduling), programming languages (e.g. Java, C++ and virtual machine designs), object-oriented technologies (e.g. design patterns, frameworks and UML), and markup languages (e.g. XML). The courses were provided to the following institutions. Please see here for more details.

  • Hitachi Information Academy
  • Hewlett Packard Japan, Professional Education Programs
  • NEC System Integration and Construction, Inc.
  • Software Research Center
  • Japan Technology Center
  • Japan Information Service Association
  • Japan Medical Information System Development Center

• Mentoring
  • CS899: Ph.D. Dissertation Research
    Fall 05, Spring 06, Fall 06, Spring 07, Fall 07, Spring 08
    Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
    

  • CS699: MS Thesis Research
    Fall 05, Spring 06, Fall 06, Spring 08
    Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
    

  • CS696: Graduate Independent Research Study
    Fall 04, Spring 05, Fall 05, Spring 06, Fall 06, Spring 07, Spring 08
    Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
    

  • CS478: Undergraduate Independent Research Study
    Spring 06
    Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
    

  • CS698: Practicum
    Spring 05, Summer 05, Fall 05, Summer 06, Summer 07
    Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
    

    Has mentored graduate students for their internship jobs at, for example, IBM, Fidelity Investments, Pega Systems and Overdrive Marketing Communications.

  • ICS299: Graduate Individual Research Study
    June 2002--June 2004
    School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

    Advised four M.S. students for their individual research projects with Prof. Tatsuya Suda. The mentored projects investigated agent platform designs, efficient mobile code platform, and artificial immune algorithms for software adaptation.

  • ICS199 and H198: Undergraduate Individual Research Study
    September 2001--June2004
    School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

    Advised undergraduate students for their individual research projects with Prof. Tatsuya Suda. Mentored 39 students, including 3 campus-wide honor students. The mentored projects investigated agent platform designs, autonomic agent behaviors, distributed service discovery algorithms, adaptive resource probing in overlay networks, model-driven agent development, and artificial genetic and immune algorithms for software adaptation. The advised students have actively presented their research findings in a campus research journal and several workshops.

    15 students were awarded research grants from the UCI UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program), and 13 of them were named UROP Fellows. A student was nominated to the 2002 UC Day's presentation competition, in which faculty deans from eight UC campuses select top undergraduate researchers. Another student was nominated to the 2003 alumni-sponsored awards for excellent undergraduate researchers. Two B.S. theses were produced.

• Object Management Group Japan, Inc.
  September 2000--December 2000
  Chief Scientist and Technical Director

  Transferred OMG’s technologies (e.g. CORBA, UML, XMI and MOF) to its current and prospective members in Japan through various consulting initiatives. For example, he played a key consulting role when the Bank of Japan (the central bank in Japan) adopted CORBA in their network infrastructure that processes online transactions with commercial banks.

• TechAtlas Communications, Inc.
  January 1997--December 1998
  Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

  Co-founded and directed an Austin, Texas, based company that specializes on technology market research and consulting. The company published several market research reports that summarize and analyze the advances in object-oriented technologies.

• Soken Planning Co., Ltd.
  April 1996--August 2000
  Technical Director, Consulting Division

  Helped the company’s clients develop and enhance their enterprise systems with emerging technologies such as distributed object middleware, XML, UML, object-oriented databases and object-oriented frameworks. Over 2,000 engineers were advised and mentored through his consulting and education services.

  April 1995--August 2000
  Technical Assistant, Object Management Group Representative in Japan
  

  Assisted the OMG’s representative in Japan (Mr. Hiroki Kamata, Soken Planning, Co., Ltd.) from technical standpoint. Helped the OMG’s current and prospective members to adopt its standard technologies.

• Institute for Social Engeneering
  April 1998--December 2000
  Visiting Researcher

  Helped the institute’s research projects regarding social cooperative agents.

• Soken Planning Co., Ltd.
  April 1992--March 1996
  Technical Analyst

  Helped the company’s consulting projects.

• Best paper award (with Pruet Boonma, June 2008).
  The 11th IEEE/SCS International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), Edinburgh, UK. Paper title: Exploring Self-star Properties in Cognitive Sensor Networking. One of three awards of 70 accepted papers (Top 4.3%).

• Dean's Outstanding Achievement Award for Research. (February 2008)
  The College of Science and Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Boston.

• The most creative award and the most well-presented award (with Paskorn Champrasert, September 2007)
  The 1st Annual Conference hosted by Greater Boston Organization of Thai Students and Scholars, Cambridge, MA. Poster title: Building Self-Configuring Network Systems with Cross Layer Coevolution. Two of four awards of 36 accepted posters (Top 5.6%).

• Interviewed, as an expert of object-oriented technology, for Object Technology Magazine, published by OGIS Research Institute, Inc. (November 2004)

• Invited to the 2004 UCI Honors Convocation as one of research advisors who had significantly impacted students who were honored on graduation. (June 2004)

• Invited to contribute a regular column on aspect-oriented programming for Java Developer Magazine (February 2004--August 2004). Column title: AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) In a Nutshell. See here for more details.

• Best paper candidate (November 2003)
  The 15th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Marina Del Rey, CA. Paper title: Design and Implementation of a Scalable Infrastructure for Autonomous Adaptive Agents. One of four candidates of 150 papers (Top 2.6%).

• Invited to the 2003 UCI Phi Beta Kappa induction in recognition of outstanding contribution to undergraduate research programs (June 2003).

• Invited to contribute a regular column on object-oriented UML modeling for Java Developer Magazine (April 2002 -- November 2003). Column title: Object Modeling at Work. See here for more details.

• Interviewed, as an expert of distributed object computing, for Computing Japan Magazine (June 2000)
  Article title: Interview to Hiroki Kamata and Junichi Suzuki, Representatives in OMG Japan

• Invited to contribute a regular column on distributed object computing for TransTECH magazine (May 1999--April 2000). Column title: “Distributed Object Computing at Work". See here for more details.

• Invited to contribute a regular column on the Python scripting language for Dr. Dobb’s Journal Japanese Edition (July 1996--April 1997). Column title: “Python in a Nutshell". See here for more details.

• Invited to contribute a regular column on object-oriented technologies for Dr. Dobb’s Journal Japanese Edition (May 1995--June 1996). Column title: “Object-Oriented Thinking. See here for more details.

• Memberships:
  • ACM
  • IEEE Computer Society

• Scientific Society Committees:
  • Member, IEEE Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems (September 2005--Present)
  • Member, IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (September 2005--Present)
  • Member, IEEE Technical Council on Distributed Processing (May 2006--Present)
  • Member, IEEE Technical Committee on Service Computing (January 2007--Present)

• Journal Editorial Board Committees:
  • Editorial board, Nano Communication Networks Journal, Elsevier (2010 -- Present )
  • Area editor, ICST Transactions on Bio-Engineering and Bio-inspired Systems (March 2009 -- Present)
  • Editorial board member, International Journal of Software Patterns (July 2007--Present)
  • Domain experts board, International Journal of Software Architecture (August 2007--Present)
  • Domain experts board, International Journal of Software Reuse (August 2007--Present)

• Grant Proposal Reviews:
  • Panelist, National Science Foundation, CISE Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, Robust Intelligence program (April 2009)
  • Panelist, National Science Foundation, CISE Division of Computer and Network Systems, Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) program (May 2008)
  • External reviewer, Israel Science Foundation, May 2007

• Standard Organization Committees:
  
  • ISO (International Standard Organization) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) JTC1-SC7 (Software and System Engineering) WG19 (Open Distributed Processing and Modeling Languages) (April 2004--present)
    Standard committee member
    Lead discussion in committee meetings, and review various proposals for software engineering and distributed computing specifications.

  • Object Management Group (OMG), Super Distributed Objects Domain Special Interest Group (December 2000--April 2004)
    Specification Co-lead and Representative of University of California, Irvine (December 2000-- April 2004)
    Proposed a uniform object model and a set of common interfaces for large-scale applications for the next generation networks such as pervasive and grid networks. The final version of the proposal was published with Hitachi Ltd. and Fraunhofer Fokus, and officially recommended by OMG in April 2004.

    Specification Co-lead (December 2000--Present)
    Lead discussion in meetings and a mailing list, and review submitted specification drafts.

• Conference Organization:
  • General Chair, The 5th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (BIONETICS), November 2010.
  • Program Co-Chair, The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems, Washington DC, June 2010.
  • Program Co-Chair, The 7th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC), Stockholm, Sweden, November 2009.
  • Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Information Retrieval in Sensor Networks, Las Vegas, NV, January 2009.
  • Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Methodologies for Non-functional Properties in Services Computing, Honolulu, HI, July 2008.
  • Workshop Co-Chair The Second ACM/IEEE/Create-Net/ICST International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computer Science and Application (BIONETICS), Budapest, Hungary, December 2007.
  • Publicity Co-chair, The Second International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language, Fort Collins, CO, October 1999.

• Conference Technical Program Committees (TPCs):
  1. TPC member, IEEE Congress in Evolutionary Computing (CEC), Barcelona, Spain, July 2010.
  2. TPC member, The 1st International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing and Engineering, Redwood City, CA, July 2010.
  3. TPC member, the 5th ICST/Create-Net International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), Corfu Island, Greece, September 2010.
  4. TPC member, The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems, Washington DC, June 2010.
  5. TPC member, The 21st International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Bilbao, Spain, August 2010.
  6. TPC member, The 12th IEEE/SCS International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), Ottawa, Canada, July 2010.
  7. TPC member, The 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Perth, Australia, April 2010.
  8. TPC member, The 8th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), Motreal, Canada, May 2010.
  9. TPC member, The 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), April 2010.
  10. TPC member, International Conference on Information Science and Applications (ICISA), Seoul, South Korea, January 2010.
  11. TPC member, The 2nd International Workshop on UML and Formal Methods, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 2009.
  12. TPC member, The 4th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of network, Information and Computing Systems (BIONETICS), Avignon, France, December 2009.
  13. TPC member, The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Berkley, CA, 2009.
  14. TPC member, The 9th ACM International Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM), Orlando, FL, October 2009.
  15. TPC member, The 2nd ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Non-Functional System Properties in Domain-Specific Modeling Languages, Denver, CO, October 2009.
  16. TPC member, International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications, Boston, MA, August 2009.
  17. TPC member, The 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Linz, Austria, August 2009.
  18. TPC member, IEEE Workshop on Grid and P2P Systems and Applications, San Francisco, CA, August 2009.
  19. TPC member, Emerging Wireless Technology and Platform Track, The 18th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), August, San Francisco, CA 2009.
  20. TPC member, The 12th IEEE/SCS International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2009.
  21. TPC member, IEEE International Workshop on Self-Healing Web Services, Los Angeles, CA, July 2009.
  22. TPC member, The 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT), Sofia, Bulgaria, July 2009.
  23. TPC member, The 6th IEEE International Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Rome, Italy, June 2009.
  24. TPC member, IADIS International Conference on e-Commerce, Algarve, Portugal, June 2009.
  25. TPC member, IEEE Congress in Evolutionary Computing (CEC), Trondheim, Norway, May 2009.
  26. TPC member, The 4th International MCETECH Conference on eTechnologies, Ottawa, Canada, May, 2009.
  27. TPC member, The 4th Multidisciplinary Conference on e-Technologies, Ottawa, Canada, May 2009.
  28. TPC member, The 2nd Workshop on Model-based Software and Data Integration, Sydney, Australia, April 2009.
  29. TPC member, The 5th ACM/INSTICC/WfMC International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2009.
  30. TPC member, ACM/INSTICC International Conference on Bio-Inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS), Porto, Portugal, January 2009.
  31. TPC member, The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), England, UK, March 2009.
  32. TPC member, The Third ACM/IEEE/Create-Net/ICST International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computer Science and Application (BIONETICS), Awaji Island, Japan, November 2008.
  33. TPC member, The 3rd IEEE European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC), Zürich, Switzerland, October 2008.
  34. TPC member, The 8th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society (I3E), Tokyo, Japan, September 2008.
  35. TPC member, The 9th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web), Turin, Italy, September 2008.
  36. TPC member, Frontiers on Communications and Networking (FCN) Symposium, The Third Create-Net/ICST International Conference on Communications and Networking, Hangzhou, China, August, 2008.
  37. TPC member, Wireless Platforms, Applications and Testbeds Track, The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands, August 2008.
  38. TPC member, Wireless Sensor Networks Track, The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands, August 2008.
  39. TPC member, The 1st International Workshop on UML and Formal Methods, Kitakyushu, Japan, July 2008.
  40. TPC member, The 3nd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT), Porto, Portugal, July 2008.
  41. TPC member, IADIS International Conference on e-Commerce, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2008.
  42. TPC member, The 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, May 2008.
  43. TPC member, The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Okinawa, Japan, March 2008.
  44. TPC member, ACM/IEEE/INSTICC International Conference on Bio-Inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 2008.
  45. TPC member, IADIS International Conference on e-Commerce, Algarve, Portugal, December 2007.
  46. TPC member, The Second ACM/IEEE/Create-Net/ICST International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computer Science and Application (BIONETICS), Budapest, Hungary, December 2007.
  47. TPC member, IADIS International Conference on e-Commerce, Algarve, Portugal, December 2007.
  48. IASK International Conference E-Activity and Leading Technologies (E-ALT), Porto, Portugal, KamaDecember 2007.
  50. TPC member, The 8th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web), Regensburg, Germany, September 2007.
  51. TPC member, The 16th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Honolulu, HI, August 2007.
  52. TPC member, The First IEEE ICCCN Workshop on Distributed Sensor Systems (DSS), Honolulu, HI, August 2007.
  53. TPC member, The 2nd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT), Barcelona, Spain, July 2007.
  54. TPC member, The 9th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC’07), Tokyo, Japan, July 2007.
  55. TPC member, The 4th IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE), Tokyo, Japan, July 2007.
  56. TPC member, International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Conferences (KCC), July 2007.
  57. TPC member, The 21st IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007.
  58. TPC member, the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), Barcelona, Spain, March 2007.
  59. TPC member, The First ACM/IEEE/Create-Net/ICST International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computer Science and Application (BIONETICS), Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, December 2006.
  60. TPC member, IADIS International Conference on e-Commerce, Barcelona, Spain, December 2006.
  61. TPC member, The 6th IFIP International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government (I3E 2006), Turku, Finland, October 2006.
  62. TPC member, International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, Setubal, Portugal, September 2006.
  63. TPC member, the Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), Setubal, Portugal, April 2006.
  64. Steering Committee and TPC member, The First Conference on Software Lifecycle Management Technology, Tokyo, Japan, April 2006.
  65. TPC member, The Fifth Symposium on the Unified Modeling Language (UML Forum), Tokyo, Japan, April 2006.
  66. TPC member, International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web (RuleML), Galway, Ireland, November 2005.
  67. TPC member, IFIP International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government (I3E 2005), Poznan, Poland, October 2005.
  68. TPC member, the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), Miami, FL, May 2005.
  69. TPC member, The Third Symposium on the Unified Modeling Language (UML Forum), Tokyo, Japan, April 2004.
  70. TPC member, The Second Symposium on the Unified Modeling Language (UML Forum), Tokyo, Japan, April 2003.

• Conference Session Management:
  • Session chair, The 5th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, Honolulu, HI, 2008
  • Session chair, The Second ACM/IEEE/Create-Net/ICST International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computer Science and Application (BIONETICS), Budapest, Hungary, December 2007.
  • Session chair, The First International Workshop on Distributed Sensor Systems, Honolulu, HI, August 2007.
  • Panel discussion moderator, The Third Symposium of Unified Modeling Language, Tokyo, Japan, April 2004.
  • Session chair, IEEE International Workshop on Service Oriented Computing, Tokyo, Japan, 2004.
  • Session chair, The 11th Annual Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research, Irvine, CA, November 2003.
  • Session chair, The 15th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Marina Del Rey, CA, November 2003.
  • Panel discussion moderator, The Second Symposium of Unified Modeling Language, Tokyo, Japan, March 2002.
  • Session chair, The First INTEGRATE Conference, Tokyo Japan, October 2001
  • Session chair, The First International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language, Mulhouse, France, June 1998.

• Invited Keynote Presentations:
  • Object Day 2000 conference, Tokyo, Japan, May 2000. Title: Electronic Commerce and Object Technology.

• Conference Tutorials:
  • "Leveraging SOA and ESBs for Compliance Management," Half day tutorial, The Third MDA Mentoring Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, August 2006.
  • "Understanding and Extending the UML Metamodel," Half day tutorial, The Second MDA Mentoring Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, July 2006.
  • "Understanding and Extending the UML 2.0 Metamodel," Half day tutorial, Object Management Group Technical Committee Meeting, Boston, MA, May 2005.
  • "Toward the Interoperable Software Models: What the Trio of UML, XML and CORBA Means?," invited tutorial, Plenary meeting of ISO TC184/SC5 (Industrial Automation Systems and Integration/Architecture, Communications, and Integration Frameworks), Kyoto, Japan, May 18, 2000.
  • "XML Management and Distribution with Distributed Objects," Half day tutorial, The Sixth Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Takamatsu, Japan, December 1999.
  • "Integrated Distributed Systems with Web and CORBA," Half day tutorial, ACM SIGMOD Japan Annual Conference, Tokyo, Japan June 1996.

• Invited Talks at Colloquia:
  • "Do Computer Network Systems Dream of Biological Systems?," invited lecture, Keio University, December 2005.
  • "Towards Model-Driven Software Development," CS department Seminar, University of Massachusetts, Boston, November 2005.
  • "Do Computer Network Systems Dream of Biological Systems?," College of Science and Mathematics Annual Faculty Reception, University of Massachusetts, Boston, October 2005.
  • "An Overview of Model-driven Software Development," ACM Student Chapter, University of Massachusetts, Boston, March 2005.
  • "An Overview of Model-driven Software Development," guest lecture, CS681-3 (Advanced Software Engineering), University of Massachusetts, Boston, November 2004.
  • "Biologically-inspired Architecture and Techniques for Building Autonomic Networks," University of Massachusetts, Boston, March 2004.
  • "An Overview of the Bio-Networking Architecture," Focused Research Group on Social Dynamics and Evolution, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine, March 2004.
  • "Design and Implementation of the Bio-Networking Architecture," Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Seminar, School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, February 2003.
  • "An Artificial Immune System in OpenWebServer/iNexus," Immuno-Copmuting Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, March 2001.

• Reviews for Professional Submittals:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2004 and 2005.
  • ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, 2001 and 2003.
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2008 and 2009.
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2009.
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2004.
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2008.
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2005.
  • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2009.
  • IEEE Systems Journal, 2009.
  • IEEE Computer Magazine, 2000, 2007.
  • IEEE Wireless Communication, 2008.
  • IEEE Software, 2003, 2008.
  • Elsevier Journal on Ad-Hoc Networks, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
  • Elsevier Journal on Systems and Software, 2004, 2008.
  • Elsevier Journal on Information and Software Technology, 2009.
  • Elsevier Journal on Network and Computer Applications, 2008 and 2009.
  • Elsevier Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) Journal, 2007.
  • Springer Journal on Software and System Modeling (SoSyM), 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009.
  • Springer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications, 2008.
  • The Computer Journal, Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • Journal of Database Management, IGI Global, 2008.
  • Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2005.
  • International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, Inderscience, 2009.
  • International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems, 2008 and 2009.
  • IPSI Transactions on Internet Research, 2004.
  • Journal of Computer Systems, Networks and Communications, 2007.
  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2008.
  • Sensors: An International Journal, Molecular Diversity Preservation International, 2009.
  • Software-Practice and Experience, Wiley, 2009.
  • ETRI Journal, 2003.

• Dissertation Proposal Reviews:
  • External reviewer, International Doctoral School of Information and Communication Technology, University of Torento, Italy. March 2008

• Editorial Board Advisors for Trade Journal Magazines:
  • Editorial board advisor, Export Practitioner Magazine Japanese Edition (April 1998--present)
  • Editorial board advisor, TransTECH Magazine (April 99--March 00)
  • Editorial board advisor, Dr. Dobb’s Journal Japanese Edition (April 97--March 99)

• Trade Journal Papers:

  Published over 150 trade journal papers specializing in distributed computing (e.g. CORBA, Enterprise Java Beans and grid computing middleware), object-oriented programming (e.g. Java and Object Pascal), object-oriented software development (e.g. Unified Modeling Language and design patterns), aspect-oriented programming (e.g. AspectJ), and scripting languages (e.g. Python and JavaScript). Please also see a list of trade journal papers.

• Public Outreach:
  • Joint Software Development for Course Scheduling Software (Sept. 2004--Present)
    Project Director
    

    Has been working with a principal and teachers of the Prospect Hill Academy Charter School (Somerville, MA) to develop a course scheduling system. The system allows users to define constraints in course offerings (e.g., the number of students in each grade/cohort, the size of each class room, and instructors? preferences on their teaching time slots) and produce a course schedule(s) that meets the constraints. This system was successfully completed and delivered to the Prospect Hill Academy Charter School at June, 2005. This software is freely available for any K-12 schools (http://scheduler.tigris.org/).

  • 2006 Japanese Government Scholarship (August 2005)
    Application Review Committee Member

    Served on the application review committee for the 2006 Japanese Government Scholarship, which supports non-Japanese students to study in graduate schools in Japan.

• Professional Consulting (selected):
  • Object Technology Institute Japan, 2003 -- Present.
  • OGIS International, Inc, 2001 -?EPresent.
  • Object Management Group Japan, Inc., 2002.
  • Synergy Research Corporation, 2001 -?E2002.
  • The Bank of Japan, 2000.
  • Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd., 1999.
  • Daiwa Institute of Research, Ltd., 1998.
  • NEC System Integration and Construction, Inc., 1998 -?E1999.
  • Hitachi Ltd., 1997 ?E 2000.
  • Nihon Unisys, Ltd., 1997 ?E 1998.
  • Canon, Inc., 1996.
  • Justsystem, Inc., 1996.
  • Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan, 1995.

• Personnel committee, 2006 and 2007.
• Faculty search committee, 2004--2005, 2006--2007 and 2007--2008.
• Department seminars committee, 2004--2007.
• Technical report committee, 2004--2007.
• Research trust funds committee, 2005--2007.
• Administrative assistant search committee, 2005 and 2006.
• Graduate program secretary search committee, 2007.
• GAANN grant application review committee, 2005.
• A voluntary department representative for the University Open House, 2004--2006.
• A voluntary department representative for the Graduate Program Open House, 2006 and 2007.
• Program committee member, The First Annual Symposium on Student Research, UMB CS department, 2008.

• Research Grants:
  • NOAA/MIT Sea Grant Program, 2010 -- 2016
  • Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry.
  • OGIS International, Inc.
  • Electric Power Development Co., Ltd.
  • UMass Boston FIPSE Equipment Grant Program
  • UMass Boston ORSP Proposal Preparation Grant
  • UMass Boston ORSP Travel Grant
  • UMass Boston CSM College Travel Grant
  • UC Irvine Faculty Career Development Grant, 2002--2003.
  • Graduate Research Fellowship, Keio Engineering Foundation, 1999--2000.

• Hardware and Software Supports:
  • CanyonBlue, Inc. 2004--2005.
  • Netscape Communications, Inc., 1995--1998.
  • Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), 1995--1997

• Other Research Grants:
  • Helped Prof. Tatsuya Suda (of UC Irvine) obtain and maintain over 20 grants from NSF, DARPA, Air Force OSR, State of California, NTT Corporation, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi America Ltd., DENSO IT Laboratory, DENSO International America, Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., NS Solutions Corporation, and ENICOM Corporation.
  • Helped Prof. Yoshikazu Yamamoto (of Keio University) obtain a grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

• Other Supports:
  • Encouraged and advised over 20 students obtain their research fellowships from NSF REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates), UCI UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program), and UCI SURP (Summer Undergraduate Research Program).