My group performs a broad range of systems software research. Systems software is software designed to manage computational resources such as CPUs, memory, and I/O devices, and to provide an appropriate environment for running applications. Examples of systems software include operating systems, web servers, and virtual machine monitors. Since systems software is a primary layer to provide execution environments for applications, its quality has a great impact on the usability of computers and quality of services. Reaseach topics in systems software are still hot even though systems software has been explored for a past decade, because systems software researchers need to explore new systems software technologies to satisfy demands from emerging applications and everchaning computing environments.

In paticular, my group focuses on dependability of computer systems. Although computer services have become an infrastructure of our society, their dependablity is not as high as other infrastructures like electricity and gas, resulting in stops of the services and leaks of customers' sensitive information. My group is exploring systems software technologies to eliminate such failures. We believe that designing and implementing innovative systems software can significantly contribute to fucture computer services to make our society much richer.

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One of the most attractive points in the TUAT tenure track program is that tenure-track-researchers can get significant supports for the start-up of their own research group in my opinion. The program gives the tenure-track-researchers a grant to set up their research group, and allows the researchers to get advice about group management from well-experienced professors. It is also one of the most attractive points that the tenure-track-researchers can join university managements in a young age. This is a great oppotunity for researchers who want to work in an academic world.

Our lives get richer and richer as computer services are evolved. We need to create new systems software to develop new computer services. I believe that computer systems would not make our lives better without systems software innovation. My group performs systems software research so that our future lives can be richer. In addition, I supervise TUAT students to the best of my ability so that they can become a distinguished enginner and resercher who acquired cutting-edge systems software technologies.