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I am an assistant professor at the University of Electro-Communications (UEC), and also working as Excellent Young Researcher, LEADER, MEXT. Besides, I concurrently serve as:
Invited Advisor at Security Fundamental Laboratory, Cybersecurity Research Institute, NICT;
Collaborative Researcher at Advanced Cryptography Research Team, CPSEC, AIST.
Research Fellow at Japan Datacom Co., Ltd.

My research area is cryptography, especially public-key crypto and information-theoretic crypto. In 2016, I got my Ph.D. in information science at Yokohama National University, Japan, under the supervision of Prof. Junji Shikata.

[News]

Three papers were accepted at ICISC 2023.
– Received Mobisec 2023 KISTI Best Paper Award!
My paper on identification protocols was accepted at MobiSec 2023.

[Contact]

Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering
The University of Electro-Communications
1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan
E-mail: watanabe [at] uec [dot] ac [dot] jp

[Links]

Iwamoto–Watanabe Laboratory (UEC, Japan)
Mitsugu Iwamoto (personal web page)
NICT Security Fundamental Laboratory
Shikata Laboratory (YNU, Japan)