Hiroki Shizuya merging into the background

Hiroki Shizuya

President-appointed Extraordinary Professor

Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences (ILAS) &
Center for Data-driven Science and Artificial Intelligence (CDS)
Tohoku University


Website in Japanese


  1. Brief Personal History
    1. Born in Sendai, Japan in the last century.
    2. Received B.E., M.E. and Dr. of Engineering degrees from Tohoku University, Japan in 1981, 1984 and 1987, respectively.
    3. Joined Tohoku University in 1987: Assistant Professor (Apr.1987- Mar.1992), Associate Professor (Apr.1992 - Mar.1995), Professor (Apr.1995 - Mar.2023), President-appointed Extraordinary Professor (Apr. 2023 - ).


  2. Research Interests
  3. Theoretical Computer Science: Cryptology, Computational Complexity Theory, and related Mathematics.


  4. Publications
  5. Hiroki Shizuya in researchmap (External link)


  6. Favorites
    1. Watching mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, spiders, and plants.
    2. Music: Violin/piano concertos of the 20th/21st century.
    3. Painting: Ranging from classical to contemporary, but not uniformly distributed.
    4. Photo: Legendary 50mm lenses.
    5. Philosophy of Science.


    Copyright (C) Hiroki Shizuya 1996-2023. All rights reserved.