Mitsugu Iwamoto (S'01-M'04) received the B.E., the M.E., and Ph.D.\ degrees from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1999, 2001, and 2004, respectively. In 2004, he joined The University of Electro-Communications, where he is  currently an Associate Professor of Department of Informatics. His research interests include information theory and cryptography. He is a member of IACR and IEICE.