Eiji Kawai
NICT
Laboratory Director
Japan
Eiji Kawai joined National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan in 2009 and has been engaging in the design and development of the nation-wide ICT testbed infrastructure JGN-X as director of network testbed R&D laboratory. Especially, he is leading the RISE project, which is one of the earliest wide-area SDN environments in the world. His current technical interests are in various aspects of SDN such as virtualization, multi-layering, hardware/software implementation, orchestration, operation, integration with computing/service, etc.