Abstract
Dr. Sachiko Yoshihama is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Senior Manager at IBM Research - Tokyo. She leads a team that focuses on financial and blockchain solutions. Her research interest is to bring advanced concepts and technologies to practice and address realworld problems to transform industries. She served as a technical leader and advisor in a number of blockchain projects with clients in Japan and Asia. She joined IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 2001, and then moved to IBM Research - Tokyo in 2003 and worked on research in information security technologies, including trusted computing, information flow control, and Web security. She served as a technology innovation leader at IBM Research Global Labs HQ in Shanghai in 2012 and helped define research strategies for developing countries. She received Ph. D from Yokohama National University in 2010. She is a member of ACM, a senior member of Information Processing Society of Japan, and a member of IBM Academy of Technology.