Hiroshi ISHII

Hiroshi Ishii received B.E. and M.E. degrees in communication engineering from Osaka University in 1977 and 1979, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in engineering from University of Tsukuba in 2001.

Since he entered NTT laboratories in 1979, he has been engaged in data network planning, CCITT(ITU-T) standardization of ISDN user-network interface protocols, and R&D on ATM switching systems, TINA systems and managed IP networking systems.  He was a TINA specification reviewer and a TINA conference program committee member from 1994 to 1999. He is now a senior research engineer, supervisor and a group leader in IP networking project of NTT Information Sharing Platform Labs., and responsible for R&D management of managed IP networking systems including routing control, access & authentication, QoS policy management server systems, and Traffic Engineering server.  He is also a part-time lecturer on networking architecture for University of Tsukuba. He co-authored a book, "Basic technologies of B-ISDN".  Dr. Ishii is a member of IEICE, IPSJ and IEEE.