Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Informatics Professor
Eiji Oki is a Professor at Kyoto University, Japan. He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in instrumentation engineering and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1991, 1993, and 1999, respectively. From 1993 to 2008, he was with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan. From 2000 to 2001, he was a Visiting Scholar at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York. He was with The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan from 2008 to 2017. He joined Kyoto University, Japan in 2017. He has been active in standardizing path computation element (PCE) in the IETF. He has authored/contributed to twelve IETF RFCs. Prof. Oki was the recipient of the 1999 IEICE Excellent Paper Award, the 2001 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, the 2010 Telecom System Technology Prize by the Telecommunications Advanced Foundation, the IEEE High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR) Paper Awards in 2012, 2014, and 2019, the 2015 IEICE Achievement Award, the IEEE Globecom 2015 Best Paper Award, the 2016 Fabio Neri Best Paper Award Runner Up in Optical Switching and Networking, Elsevier, the Excellent Paper Award of 2019 Information and Communication Technology on Convergence, and IEEE ICC 2023 Best Paper Award. His research interests include routing, switching, protocols, optimization, and traffic engineering in communication and information networks. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IEICE.