Dr. Ryusuke Masuoka is a Principal Information Security Officer at a FinTech company in Japan. Before joing the FinTech company September 2024, he was a Global Fujitsu Distinguished Engineer
and a technical advisor at Fujitsu Defense & National Security Limited, and a chief cybersecurity advisor at Japan Ministry of Defense.
Over 30 years of ICT research and more than 20 years of ICT research management experiences.
He led collaborations with research institutes like the University of Maryland, MITRE, PARC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), UC Berkeley, Virginia Tech, Ben-Gurion University (BGU), and Keio University and collaborations also with a couple of startups. He served as Principal Investigators (PIs) for DARPA and NSF projects. He has worked on a wide range of standard activities including those for OASIS Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) TC, DMTF, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), 3GPP, IEEE 802.15.4, IETF ROLL WG, Trusted Computing Group (TCG), W3C OWL-S, and FIPA. Currently engaged in Cyber Security research including Cyber Threat Intelligence after two years of public policy studies, in particular, of cyber security at a think tank.
Specialties and research interests include: Cyber Security Technologies including Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), Cyber Security Policy, Bitcoin, Blockchain, LTE-Advanced, Software Validation, Smart Grid/Energy, Computer Security, Trusted Computing, Pervasive Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Task Computing, Semantic Web, Software Agents, Simulated Annealing, Neural Networks, and Differential Geometry.
A CISSP, an ACM senior member and an IEEE senior member.
Employment
Septemer 1, 2024 - Present
Principal Information Security Officer, A FinTech Company
August 1, 2023 - August 31, 2024
Technical Advisor, Fujitsu Defense & National Security Limited
December 21, 2022 - July 31, 2023
Technical Advisor, Fujitsu System Integration Laboratories Limited
Programming Committee Member of 2020 FIRST Cyber Threat Intelligence Symposium,
Zurich (CH), March 2020.
August 2019 - November 2020
Programming Committee Member of 32nd Annual FIRST Conference,
Virtual Edition, November 16-18, 2020 (Originally planned in Montreal (CA), June 21-26, 2020).
April 2019 - March 2020
Member of "Survey on Status and Trends of Cyber Technologies," Defense Technology Survey Committee, Keidanren (Federation of Economoic Organizations).
(In Japanese - 経団連 防衛技術調査委員会 「サイバー関連技術の現状と動向」委員)
April 2019 - January 2020
Reviewer Team Member of the Digital Government Track at HICSS-53,
Hawaii (US), January 7-10, 2020.
Principal Investigator, Generalized Integrated Learning Architecture
(GILA) Team of the DARPA
Integrated Learning Project.
September 18-22, 2006
Member of the Program Committee of
the Third International Workshop on Semantic and Dynamic Processes
(SWDP 2006) in conjunction with
2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services
(ICWS 2006), Chicago, USA
Member of the Program Committee of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Agents and the Semantic Web
(ASW05), Arlington, Virginia, USA.
November 21-30, 2005
Member of the Program Committee of the First International On-Line conference on Metadata and Semantics Research:
Approaches to Advanced Information Systems
(MSR'05).
July 17-21, 2005
Program co-chair of
MobiQuitous 2005, San Diego,
California, USA.
July 12-15, 2005
Second International Workshop on Semantic and Dynamic Web Processes
(SDWP 2005),
a workshop of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services
(ICWS 2005),
Orland, Florida, USA.
June 27, 2005
Reviewed a special issues proposal for
AI Magazine
Member of the Workshop Program Committee of the
International Workshop on Massively Multi-Agent Systems
(MMAS2004), Kyoto, Japan.
November 7-11, 2004
Member of the Industrial Track Program Committee of 3rd International
Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004),
Hiroshima, Japan. Also a Member of the Program Committee of the
"Semantic Web Services" workshop at ISWC2004.
August 26, 2004
Member of the Technical Program Committee of First Workshop on
Pervasive Security, Privacy and Trust
(PSPT 2004) in Conjunction with
MobiQuitous 2004, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA.
August 22-26, 2004
Member of the Technical Program Committee of
MobiQuitous 2004, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA.
July 19 - 23, 2004
Member of the program committee of the "Agents for Ubiquitous Computing"
workshop in conjunction with the Third International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2004),
New York City, USA.
July 6, 2004
Member of the program committee of the "First International Workshop on
Semantic Web Services and Web Processes Composition" (SWSWPC
2004) in conjunction with the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web
Services (ICWS 2004),
San Diego, California, USA, June 6 - 9, 2004. Also a Panelist on the
panel, "Do academic research and industry differ in the role and
approach to use semantics for Web Processes?" for the SWSWPC 2004 workshop.
Associate Editor for Special Section on "Concurrent System Technology and Its
Application to Multiple Agent Systems," the
IEICE
Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer
Sciences, November, 2002.
Invited talk at the First Meeting of Security Management WG in FY2017,
Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP),
“Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructures”, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan
(In Japanese, 内閣府 SIP "重要インフラ等におけるサイバーセキュリティの確保"
2017 年度 第一回 セキュリティ運用 WG), June 7, 2017.
Invited talk, "Software Validation," Special Lecture Series on Social Mathematical Sciences II, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo (「ソフトウェア検証」, 社会数理特別講義II, 東京大学 数理科学研究科), October 21, 2010 (Presentation PDF)
Invited talk, "Task Computing - Fusing the Semantic Web and Ubiquitous Computing,"
at the Semantic Web technology for mobile and ubiquitous applications
(SWMU Workshop),
3rd International Semantic Web Conference
(ISWC2004), Hiroshima, Japan, November 7, 2004.
Invited talk on Task Computing at the Kobe University,
神戸大学国際文化学部情報論講座講演会,
「ここまで来ているユビキタス - Task Computing：デジタルリソースの遍在化と高次処理 -」, November 4, 2004
Panelist on the panel,
"Do academic research and industry differ in the role
and approach to use semantics for Web Processes?" at
the First International Workshop on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition
(SWSWPC 2004),
the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services
(ICWS 2004), San Diego, USA, July 6, 2004.
Panelist at "Agents for e-business and e-industry," Workshop of the Special
Interest Group on Network Agent Technology, Tokyo, Japan, January 24th, 2001 (In
Japanese).
"Intelligent Systems," FQS Professional Seminar at FQS (Fujitsu Kyushu System Engineering),
Fukuoka, Japan, August 4th, 2000 (In Japanese).
"JADE Hands-on Seminar," First Seminar of Agent Interoperability Initiative,
Intelligent Agent Society organized and
performed by Ryusuke Masuoka and Yoshiaki Teramoto, Tokyo, Japan, July 28th,
2000 (In Japanese).
"Virtual Information Integration by Agents and AGENTPRO," Agent Technology
Seminar at NTT Comware, Chiba, Japan,
March 8th, 2000 (In Japanese).
"On the Stability of Riemannian Manifolds," Geometry Symposium, Shinshu University, July 29, 1988.
... Ryusuke Masuoka, a cybersecurity expert and senior fellow at the Center for International Public Policy Studies,
agreed the CDU is grossly understaffed and underfunded, especially compared with other countries. ...
... After reading an in-depth report entitled “Cyber Security in Japan,” produced
by the Center for International Public Policy Studies (CIPPS), Private WiFi corresponded
with Senior Fellow Ryusuke Masuoka, PhD, also one of the study’s authors.
The CIPPS report raised many interesting takeaways
on the U.S. versus Japan, specifically when it comes to hacking and cybercrime. ...
... "It's like an ongoing war," said Ryusuke Masuoka, a cybersecurity expert at Tokyo's
Center for International Public Policy Studies, a private think tank.
"It is going to spread and get deeper and deeper.” …
