Makoto TAKIZAWA received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Applied Physics from Tohoku University , Japan, in 1973 and 1975, respectively. He received his D.E. in Computer Science from Tohoku University in 1984. From 1975 to 1986, he worked for Japan Information Processing Developing Center (JIPDEC) supported by the MITI (currently, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), Japan. He is currently a full professor of the Department of Advanced Sciences, Hosei University since April of 2013. He was a full professor at the Department of Computers and Information Science, Seikei University since April of 2008 to March of 2013. He was a full professor of the Department of Computers and Systems Engineering, Tokyo Denki University (TDU) from 1986 to 2008. He was a dean of the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University from April of 2001 to March of 2005. He was a director of Informations Division of TDU Research Institute for Technology from 1999 to 2001. He was a member of Board of Councilors of Tokyo Denki University from April of 2004 to March of 2007. He was a chair of Dept. of Information Science at the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University from 2006 to March of 2008. From 1989 to 1990, he was a visiting professor of the GMD-IPSI (currently, Fraunhofer), Darmstadt, Germany. He is also a regular visiting professor of Department of Computer Science and DAKE Centre of Keele University, England since 1990. He is a visiting professor of Xidian Univ. and also an international advisor of Chinese Key State Lab. of ISN, Xidian University, X'ian, China since 2004. He is a Golden Core member (2004- ) and now a Board of Governors (BoG) of IEEE Computer Society(2003-2005, 2006-2008) and also an international advisory committee member of TCDP(TC on Distributed Processing) of IEEE Computer Society. He is a senior member of IEEE.

Makoto TAKIZAWA research interest includes eco distributed systems, high-speed communication protocols, group communication protocols, distributed object systems, distributed database systems, distributed transaction management, fault-tolerant distributed systems, distributed systems security, role-based access control, transactional mobile agent systems, and peer-to-peer (P2P) systems.