Masahiro Kuroda received the M.E. degree in systems science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1980, the M.S. degree in computer science from University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, in 1989, and received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Shizuoka University, Japan, in 2000.
He joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Kamakura, Japan in 1980. Since then, he was engaged in OS/network developments, mobile network computing R&D, and cellular Java standardizations. In 2002 he joined National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) (Former name was Communications Research Laboratory, CRL) under the ministry of Internal affairs and Communications and was working on wireless network, wireless security, mobile systems, and next generation wireless systems architecture.
He is currently working on secure body-area networks for ubiquitous healthcare/medical systems and on international standardizations such as ITU-T M2M FG. He is a member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society.
