Isao Echizen’s CV (As of November 3, 2023)

CURRICULUM VITAEISAO ECHIZEN
Address:

Mailing address:
2-1-2, Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo, 101-8430, JAPAN
Phone: +81-3-4212-2516
E-mail: iechizen@nii.ac.jp
URL: http://research.nii.ac.jp/~iechizen/official/members_echizen-e.html
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=RduUnVIAAAAJ&hl=ja

Isao Echizen✓✓✓✓Director / Professor, Information and Society Research Division, National Institute ofInformatics
Director, Global Research Center for Synthetic Media, National Institute of Informatics
Professor, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School ofInformation Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
Professor, Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, The Graduate University for Advanced
Studies (SOKENDAI)

Doctoral degree:
2003
Doctor of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Education:
1991-1995
1995-1997

Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Master of Science in Applied Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Career (full-time position):
1997-2007
Research Engineer, Systems Development Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
2007-2014
Associate Professor, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National
Institute of Informatics
2007-2014
Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, School of Multidisciplinary Sciences,The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
2014-2017
Professor, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National Institute ofInformatics
2014-2023
Professor, Department of Informatics, School of Multidisciplinary Sciences, The
Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
2017-Present Professor, Information and Society Research Division, National Institute of Informatics
2017-2019
Director, Information and Society Research Division, National Institute of Informatics
2018-2019
Deputy Director General, National Institute of Informatics
2019-2020
Acting Director General / Deputy Director General, National Institute of Informatics
2019-Present Professor, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate
School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
2020-2021
Advisor to the Director General, National Institute of Informatics

Isao Echizen’s CV (As of November 3, 2023)
2020-Present Research Director, Social Information Technologies to Counter Infodemics (CREST
FakeMedia), CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)2021-Present Director, Information and Society Research Division, National Institute of Informatics
2021-Present Director, Global Research Center for Synthetic Media, National Institute of Informatics(NII)
2022-2023
Deputy Dean, School of Multidisciplinary Sciences, The Graduate University For
Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
2023-Present Professor, Department of Informatics, Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, The
Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
Career (part-time position):
2010
Visiting Professor, University of Freiburg, Germany
2011
Visiting Professor, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
2016-2020
Scientific Research Senior Specialist, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Scienceand Technology of Japan2017-2021
Visiting Professor, Tsuda University, Japan2017-Present Visiting Professor, Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research (ROIS-DS), Japan
2020-Present Japanese representative, IFIP TC11 (Security and Privacy Protection in Information
Processing Systems)
Awards (selected):
2009
Gerd Griesser Award, the International Medical Informatics Association WG4 Securityin Health Information Systems (IMIA SiHIS)
2010
One of the best papers, the 25th IFIP International Information Security Conference(IFIP SEC 2010)
2014
DoCoMo Mobile Science Award, Mobile Communication Fund
2016
Award for the Contribution to Culture of Security, Institute of Information Security
2016
Best paper award, the 15th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society(IFIP I3E2016)2017
Best paper award, the 16th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society(IFIP I3E2017)2017
Best paper award, the 9th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics andSecurity 2017 (WIFS2017)2017
Fellow, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
2023
Best paper award, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication
Engineers (IEICE)
2023
BTAS/IJCB 5-Year Highest Impact Award, IEEE Biometrics Council award at the IEEE
International Joint Conference on Biometrics
Academic activities (selected):
2009-2011
Editorial Board Member, Business & Information Systems Engineering(WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK)2010
Program Co-chair, the 5th International Workshop on Security (IWSEC2010)2013
Conference Co-chair, the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Information
Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIHMSP2013)

Isao Echizen’s CV (As of November 3, 2023)
2014-20162014-20162014-2016
2015
2015
2016
2016-20192017-Present
2018-20202019
20202021-Present
2021-Present
2021-Present
2022-Present

WG Secretary, IFIP TC8-information systems: WG8.4- E-Business Information Systems:
Multi-disciplinary research and practice
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Innovation in Digital Ecosystems, Elsevier
Associate Editor, Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, Springer
Workshop Co-chair, Workshop on Privacy by Transparency in Data-Centric Services(PTDCS 2015)
Organizing Co-chair, International Workshop on Digital-Forensics and Watermarking(IWDW2015)
Program Co-chair, the 12th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Information
Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIHMSP2016)
Member, Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS TC), IEEESignal Processing SocietyScientific Board Member, SBA Research, Austria
Chair, Multimedia Security and Forensics (MSF) Technical Committee, Asia PacificSignal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA)TPC Co-chair, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual
Summit and Conference 2019 (APSIPA ASC 2019)
TPC Co-chair, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual
Summit and Conference 2020 (APSIPA ASC 2020)
Member-at-large of the Board of Governors, Asia Pacific Signal and Information
Processing Association (APSIPA)
Associate Editor, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure ComputingAssociate Editor, Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier

Membership: IEICE Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, APSIPA Member, and ACM Member
Ongoing funded projects (selected):[1] Social information technologies to counter infodemics (CREST FakeMedia), JST CREST, Trusted
quality AI systems area, PI: Isao Echizen, Grant: JPY 305,462,000 (Direct); December 2020 toMarch 2026. (Website: http://research.nii.ac.jp/~iechizen/crest-e.html)[2] Research on master biometric information protection and utilization platform, JSPS KAKEN-HI,
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), PI: Isao Echizen, Grant: JPY 43,160,000; April 2021 toMarch 2024.
[3] Smart Biometrics: AI driven Biometric Privacy, JSPS-DST (Japan-India) Cooperative ScienceProgram, PI: Isao Echizen, Grant: JPY 2,000,000; June 2021 to May 2023.
Previous funded projects (selected):[1] Platform for multimedia data protection and practical use based on user preferences against
spoofing attacks in biometric information, JSPS KAKEN-HI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A), PI: Isao Echizen, Grant: JPY 42,250,000; April 2016 to March 2018.
[2] Communication System for Defending against Attacks of Media Clones, JSPS KAKEN-HI, Grantin-Aid for Scientific Research (S), PI: Noboru Babaguchi, Co-PI: Isao Echizen, Grant: JPY
156,910,000; May 2016 to March 2021.

Isao Echizen’s CV (As of November 3, 2023)[3] Platform for Biometric Information Protection to Ensure Personal Convenience and Prevent
Spoofing, JSPS KAKEN-HI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), PI: Isao Echizen, Grant: JPY
43,160,000; April 2018 to March 2021.
Selected publications (in the last six years):[1] C. C. Chang, H. H. Nguyen, J. Yamagishi, and I. Echizen, “Cyber Vaccine for Deepfake
Immunity,” IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 105027-105039, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3311461.,
September 2023.
[2] H. H. Nguyen, T-N. Le, J. Yamagishi, and I. Echizen, “Analysis of Master Vein Attacks on Finger
Vein Recognition Systems,” IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision(WACV 2023), 9 pages, January 2023.
[3] F. Waseda, S. Nishikawa, T-N. Le, H. H. Nguyen, and I. Echizen, “Closer Look at theTransferability of Adversarial Examples: How They Fool Different Models Differently,”
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2023), 9 pages,
January 2023. [Number of citations: 11][4] T-N. Le, T. Gu, H. H. Nguyen, and I. Echizen, “Rethinking Adversarial Examples for Location
Privacy Protection,” IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, 2022
(WIFS 2022), 6 pages, December 2022.
[5] S. Nishikawa, I. Yamada, Y. Tsuruoka, and I. Echizen, “A Multilingual Bag-of-Entities Model for
Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Text Classification,” The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural
Language Learning (CoNLL 2022), 11 pages, December 2022.
[6] S. Nishikawa, R. Ri, I. Yamada, Y. Tsuruoka, and I. Echizen, “EASE: Entity-Aware Contrastive
Learning of Sentence Embedding,” The 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of theAssociation for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2022), full paper, 11 pages, July 2022.
[7] M. Khosravy, I. Echizen, and N. Babaguchi (eds.), “Frontiers in Fake Media Generation andDetection,” 274 pages, Springer, June 2022.
[8] H. H. Nguyen, S. Marcel, J. Yamagishi, and I. Echizen, “Master Face Attacks on Face Recognition
Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (IEEE TBIOM), vol. 4,no. 3, pp. 398-411, July 2022.
[9] H. H. Nguyen, J, Yamagishi, and I. Echizen, “Capsule-Forensics Networks for Deepfake
Detection,” Book chapter, Handbook of Digital Face Manipulation and Detection (C. Rathgeb, R.
Tolosana, R. Vera-Rodriguez, and C. Busch (eds.)), pp. 275-301, Springer, March 2022.
[10] H. H. Nguyen, M. Kuribayashi, J. Yamagishi, and I. Echizen, “Effects of Image Processing
Operations on Adversarial Noise and Their Use in Detecting and Correcting Adversarial Images,”
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems, Vol.E105-D, No.1, pp.65-77, January 2022.
[Best paper award][11] T. V. Bui, M. Cheraghchi, and I. Echizen, “Improved non-adaptive algorithms for thresholdgroup testing with a gap,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (IEEE TIT), vol. 67, pp. 71807196, November 2021.
[12] T.-N. Le, H. H. Nguyen, J. Yamagishi, and I. Echizen, “OpenForensics: Large-Scale Challenging
Dataset For Multi-Face Forgery Detection And Segmentation In-The-Wild,” The International
Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021), 11 pages, October 2021. [Number of citations: 40][13] S. Chen, C.-C. Chang, and I. Echizen, “Steganographic Secret Sharing with GAN-Based Face
Synthesis and Morphing for Trustworthy Authentication in IoT,” IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 116427116439, August 2021.

Isao Echizen’s CV (As of November 3, 2023)[14] D. Adelani, H. Mai, F. Fang, H. Nguyen, J. Yamagishi, and I. Echizen, “Generating SentimentPreserving Fake Online Reviews Using Neural Language Models and Their Human- andMachine-based Detection,” Proc. of the 34th International Conference on Advanced Information
Networking and Applications (AINA-2020), 12 pages, April 2020 [Number of citations: 107][15] T. Yasui, M. Kuribayashi, N. Funabiki, and I. Echizen, “Near-optimal detector for binary Tardos
code by estimating collusion strategy,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security(IEEE TIFS), vol.15, pp.2069-2080, November 2019.
[16] T. V. Bui, M. Kuribayashi, M. Cheraghchi, and I. Echizen, “Efficiently Decodable Non-Adaptive
Threshold Group Testing,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (IEEE TIT), 15 pages,September 2019.
[17] H. Nguyen, F. Fang, J. Yamagishi, and I. Echizen, “Multi-task Learning for Detecting andSegmenting Manipulated Facial Images and Videos,” Proc. of the 10th IEEE International
Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 2019), 8 pages, September
2019 [Number of citations: 395, BTAS/IJCB 5-Year Highest Impact Award][18] H. Nguyen, J. Yamagishi, and I. Echizen, “Capsule-forensics: using capsule networks to detect
forged images and videos,” Proc. ICASSP 2019, 5 pages, May 2019 [Number of citations: 495]
[19] D. Afchar, V. Nozick, J. Yamagishi, and I. Echizen, “MesoNet: a Compact Facial Video Forgery
Detection Network,” Proc. of the IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics andSecurity (WIFS 2018), 7 pages, December 2018 [Number of citations: 1,119][20] H. Nguyen, T. Tieu, H. Nguyen-Son, V. Nozick, J. Yamagishi, and I. Echizen, “ModularConvolutional Neural Network for Discriminating between Computer-Generated Images andPhotographic Images,” Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability andSecurity (ARES 2018), full paper, pp. 1-10, August 2018 [Number of citations: 58][21] H. Nguyen, T. Tieu, H. Nguyen-Son, J. Yamagishi, and I. Echizen, “Transformation on ComputerGenerated Facial Image to Avoid Detection by Spoofing Detector,” Proc. ICME 2018, pp. 1-6, July
2018 [Top 15% papers][22] F. Fang, J. Yamagishi, I. Echizen, and J. Lorenzo-Trueba, “High-quality nonparallel voice
conversion based on cycle-consistent adversarial network,” Proc. ICASSP 2018, pp. 5279-5283,
April 2018 [Number of citations: 153]
[23] N. Rahmouni, V. Nozick, J. Yamagishi, and I. Echizen, "Distinguishing Computer Graphics fromNatural Images Using Convolution Neural Networks," Proc. of the 9th IEEE International
Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS 2017), pp. 1-6, December 2017 [Numberof citations: 296]
[24] N. Tieu, H. Nguyen, H. Nguyen-Son, J. Yamagishi, and I. Echizen, "An Approach for Gait
Anonymization using Deep Learning," Proc. of the 9th IEEE International Workshop onInformation Forensics and Security (WIFS 2017), pp. 1-6, (December 2017) [Best paper Award]