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Eiji Oki is a Professor at Kyoto University, Japan. He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in instrumentation engineering and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1991, 1993, and 1999, respectively. He was with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) Laboratories, Tokyo, from 1993 to 2008, and The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, from 2008 to 2017. From 2000 to 2001, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn. In 2017, he joined Kyoto University, Japan. He has authored/contributed to twelve IETF RFCs. Prof. Oki was the recipient of the 1999 IEICE Excellent Paper Award, the 2001 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, the 2010 Telecom System Technology Prize by the Telecommunications Advanced Foundation, the IEEE HPSR Paper Awards in 2012, 2014, and 2018, the 2015 IEICE Achievement Award, the IEEE Globecom 2015 Best Paper Award, the 2016 Fabio Neri Best Paper Award Runner Up in Optical Switching and Networking, Elsevier, and the Excellent Paper Award of 2019 Information and Communication Technology on Convergence. His research interests include routing, switching, protocols, optimization, and traffic engineering in communication and information networks. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IEICE.