Kiyokuni KAWACHIYA

Self Introduction

Kiyokuni (Kiyo) KAWACHIYA, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher
IBM Research - Tokyo

NBF Toyosu Canal Front Building,
5-6-52, Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8511, Japan
E-mail: kawatiya at jp ibm com

My interest is "system software", such as operating systems and programming languages. I worked for developing Java™ JIT compiler for Linux, accelerating Java locks, and reducing the startup overhead of Java applications. I am also interested in virtualization technologies. Recently, I am working for the analysis and reduction of memory footprint of Java and also for programming languages on Java.

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I was born in 1963 at Osaka, Japan.
I gradutated the University of Tokyo in 1985.
I received M.S. degree in Information Science from the University of Tokyo in 1987, and received Ph.D. degree in Media and Governance from Keio University in 2005 [Ph.D. thesis].
Since joining IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory (now called "IBM Research - Tokyo" since September 2009) in 1987, I have been working on operating systems, multimedia systems, mobile information devices, and Java execution runtime.

I received IPSJ Convention Award (1994), IPSJ Best Paper Award (2005), and JSSST Takahashi Award (2008).
I am a member of ACM (Senior Member), IPSJ (Editorial Committee Member of Trans. Programming in 2007/04-2011/03), and JSSST (Board Member in 2007/04-2011/03 and Editorial Committee Member from 2012/04).