Junichi Suzuki is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Keio University, Japan, in 2001. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) from 2001 to 2004. Before joining UCI, he was with Object Management Group Japan, Inc., as Technical Director. His research interests include biologically-inspired computing, autonomous adaptive distributed systems, sustainable networking, molecular communication, model-driven software/performance engineering and multiobjective optimization.

In these areas, he has authored two books, edited five journal special issues, and published one industrial standard specification and 120+ papers in international journals and conferences. He received nine best paper awards and two best poster awards at major conferences such as IEEE SPECTS 2008 and IEEE SCC 2007. He serves on the editorial boards for six international journals including Elsevier Nano Communication Networks Journal. He has chaired or co-chaired 15 international conferences such as BodyNets 2012, BIONETICS 2010 and ICSOC 2009. He has served on the steering committee of five conferences as well as the program committee of 100+ conferences such as IEEE CEC, ACM GECCO, IEEE ICTAI, IEEE SECON, IEEE AINA, ACM/IEEE BIOSIGNALS and IEEE ICCCN.