9th Franco-Japanese Cybersecurity Workshop
November 5th – 7th, 2025
Tokyo at NICT research center
Registration, free and mandatory:
https://sondages.inria.fr/index.php/691489?lang=en
Venue
NICT Research Center
NICT Nihonbashi Office (Nihonbashi, Tokyo)
Tokyo Nihonbashi Tower
2-7-1 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan(Nov. 6th and 7th : 15th Floor,
Nov. 5th : same building but different room)
With the support of
Keio University, NICT, YNU
PROGRAM
Wednesday, November 5th, 2025
| 1:30pm–2:00pm | Opening and Welcome address TBD, Keio University President Hideyuki Tokuda, NICT Cécile Vigouroux, Inria’s director of international relations TBC, French Embassy in Japan Jun Murai, Keio University Junji Shikata, YNU Workshop program presentation Koji Nakao (NICT) and Ludovic Mé (Inria) |
| 2:00pm–3:30pm | Keynotes Chair: Ludovic Mé (Inria) Yufei Han (Inria): The Synergy Between AI technologies and Cyber Security Challenges: The Open Problems and Opportunities Takeshi Takahashi (NICT): Toward a Resilient AI-Native Cyber Society: Our AI Security R&D and Initiative |
| 3:30pm–4:00pm | Break |
| 4:00pm–5:30pm | Session 1: enhancing cybersecurity with AI Chair : Takeshi Takahashi (NICT) Yufei Han (Inria): Adaptive and Unsupervised Learning for Botnet Traffic Classification Franco Terranova (Inria): Learning to Predict Cyber Attack Paths with RL Agents Daishi Kondo (University of Tokyo): Evaluation of AI-based benchmark network intrusion detection system (NIDS) test sets and Targeted Augmentation |
| 5:30pm | End of Wednesday sessions |
| 6:00pm–7:30pm | Meeting of the FJ-cybersecurity cooperation scientific committee |
| 8:00pm | Scientific committee dinner |
Thursday, November 6th, 2025
| 9:00am–10:30am | Keynotes Chair: Koji Nakao (NICT) Dai Mochinaga (Shibaura Institute of Technology): Cybersecurity and Geopolitical Dynamics in the Indo-Pacific Kavé Salamatian (University of Savoie): Digital sovereignty: positive and negative; the case study of Iran and Russia |
| 10:30am–11:00am | Break |
| 11:00am–12:00 | Session 2: Franco-Japanese Funding Opportunities Chair: Cécile Vigouroux (Inria) TBC Representative Delegation of the European Union to Japan – Japan in Horizon Europe + Strategic Digital Partnership EU-Japan French Instruments to support international collaborations Japanese Instruments to support international collaborations |
| 12:00pm–01:30pm | Lunchtime |
| 1:30pm–3:00pm | Session 3: Information systems security Chair: Koji Nakao (NICT) Yohann Morel (IMT-Atlantique): Investigating Botnet Traffic: Temporal and Geographical Analysis Sakurai (Deloitte Tohmatsu): Realizing car racing using digital twins and considering security (tentative title) Ayumu Kubota (KDDI Research Labs), Enhancing Cyber-Physical Systems Security: A Digital Twin-Based Framework for Advanced Threat Detection and Response |
| 3:00pm–4:30pm | Session 4: Cryptography Chair: TBD Junji Shikata (YNU), Research and Development Project Update on Next-Generation Cryptography Technology Yoshinori Aono (NICT), Activity on cryptanalysis based on Euclidean networks (tentative title) Damien Robert (Inria), A look at the SQISign isogeny-based signature scheme — remote |
| 4:30pm–5:00pm | Break |
| 5:00pm–7:00pm | Session 5: examples of ongoing French-Japanese projects (1/2) Chair : Claude Kirchner (CCNEN and Inria) Marc Duranton (CEA) and Hiroaki Nishi (Department of System Design Engineering, Keio University), Using edge intelligence for secure and privacy-preserving real-world monitoring. Sonia Ben Mokhtar (CNRS) and Pierre-Louis Aublin (IIJ Lab Tokyo): Towards Confidential Key-Value Store for Untrusted Environments. Mitsu Okada (Keio Univ.) and Catuscia Palamidessi (Inria): France-Japan collaborative research on Formal methods for cybersecurity. Hervé Debar (IMT-TSP) and Youki Kadobayashi (NAIST): Bridging the cyber technology adoption gap in the industry — An IMT – NAIST collaboration since 2017 |
| 7:00pm | End of Thursday sessions |
| 7:30pm | Workshop Reception |
Friday, November 7th, 2025
| 09:00am–10:30am | Session 6: examples of ongoing French-Japanese projects (2/2) Chair : Claude Kirchner (CCNEN and Inria) Jean-Yves Marion, Mizuhito Ogawa (JAIST), Anh Nguyen Van (YNU) and Katsunari Yoshioka (YNU): A systemic approach to malware combat Yusuke Kawamoto (AIST, remote) and Catuscia Palamidessi (Inria) Information Leakage Games: Exploring Information as a Utility Function. Natasha Fernandes (Macquarie University), Yusuke Kawamoto (AIST, remote), Takao Murakami (ISM): Locality Sensitive Hashing with Extended Differential Privacy. |
| 10:30am–11:00am | Break |
| 11:00am–12:00am | Session 7: cooperation organization, future plans, general discussion General discussion chaired by Ludovic Mé and Koji Nakao |
| 12:00am–1:30pm | Lunchtime |
| 1:30pm–3:30pm | Session 8: Ethical aspect of cybersecurity research Chair: Ludovic Mé (Inria) Castucia Palamidessi (Inria): On the interaction between fairness and privacy in machine learning Mitsuaki Akiyama (NTT): Reflections on Research Ethics in Cybersecurity: A View from International Cybersecurity Conferences Masaki Shimaoka (Secom CO., Ltd): Reflections on Research Ethics in Cybersecurity: A View from Japan’s Cybersecurity Community Kavé Salamatian (Univ. Savoie): An preliminary investigation on the methodology and ethics of OSINT in cybersecurity Claude Kirchner (CCNEN and Inria): Cybersecurity research ethics, reflections on experimentation methodology and publication of results |
| 3:30pm | Discussing current projects and/or setting up new projects Optional F2F meetings for the ones who want to set up a new fr/jp cooperation, for instance AI threat analysis, Cybersecurity Ethics, Cryptography, Network and System security, Software supply chain security etc. |
| 5:00pm | End of the workshop |