Hirotsugu Seike

News

2023/09/03
An oral presentation of "A Study on the Sustainability of Blockchain Systems - A Case Study of Bitcoin Mining Pools -" at Japanese Joint Statistical Meeting in 2023. NEW
2023/03/30
My paper "Evaluating Off-chain Transaction Queueing Delay to Ensure Data Integrity by Blockchain" has been accepted at IEEE ICCCBDA 2023.

About

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I'm an Assistant Professor of Koshizuka-Lab, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo. My research focuses on analyzing the theoretical performance of blockchain-based systems and proposing methods to scale blockchains. Blockchain is one of the distributed ledger technologies and the concept has been well known to the public by Satoshi Nakamoto who invented Bitcoin in 2008. However, a blockchain-based system without a centralized authority must face several scalability limitations to maintain secure, consistent databases across multiple nodes. To solve this problem, I'm studying blockchain-releated technologies, such as off-chain technologies and consensus algorithms.

  I'm also a member of Data Society Alliance (DSA). I'm involved in research and development activities related to Dataspaces proposed by Franklin et al. in 2005, to realize a global, federated data sharing platform. In particular, I focus on trust-related technologies (e.g., quasi-isomorphic cryptography, Watch Tower), which are used in the blockchain ecosystem to guarantee the integrity of data transaction records.

  I participate in the project of Consortium for training experts in statistical sciences that is promoted mainly by the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) in Japan.

Brief Biography

2023/10~
I'm an Assistant Professor at Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo.
2024/01~
I'm an individual member of Data Society Alliance (DSA).
2023/04~
I'm a 2nd stage trainee of the project of Consortium for training experts in statistical sciences.
2023/04
~2023/07
I'm a research associate at Graduate School of Social Data Science, Hitotsubashi University.
2023/01
I received the Ph.D. degree in Interdisciplinary Information Studies from Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo.
2022/05
~2023/09
I'm a Visiting Researcher at Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo.
2022/04
~2023/03
I'm a research associate at Center for the Promotion of Social Data Science Education and Research, Hitotsubashi University.
2022/03
I withdrew from the doctorial course of Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo.
2018/04
I was a Ph.D. student at Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo, under the supervision of Noboru Koshizuka.
2018/03
I received the M.S. degree in Interdisciplinary Information Studies from Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo.
2016/03
I received the B.S. degree in Information and Computer Science from Keio University.

Research Interests

  • Blockchain performance analysis

  • Blockchain applications for distributed IoT systems

  • Blockchain applications for identification systems

  • Blockchain applications for data sharing platforms

  • Blockchain system resilient to congestion attacks

  • Off-chain technologies

  • Security and privacy