Milton Kaoru Kashiwakura

Milton Kaoru Kashiwakura holds a degree in Engineering from the University of São Paulo and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the same institution. He is currently an assistant professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), where he teaches Networking; a project director at NIC.br, working with the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br); and a board member of the Internet Exchange Federation (IX-F).
He worked at FAPESP as Technical Coordinator of the ANSP network (“Academic Network at São Paulo”) from 1998 to 2001, with major accomplishments including: deploying the first Internet exchange point in Brazil in 1998, located at the FAPESP building in São Paulo; leading the Advanced ANSP project, a state-level network with a 155 Mbps backbone connected to Internet2’s Abilene network; and implementing Transparent Web Cache with IP Spoofing for all international web traffic on the ANSP network, as well as CDN technologies prior to the activation of the Americas II submarine cable.
At USP, from 1983 to 1997, he served as Director of the Technical Division for User Support, where he coordinated the team that deployed USPnet, a network interconnecting more than 500 buildings across multiple cities in the state of São Paulo. He was also the network manager at iG, one of Brazil’s major ISPs, from 2001 to 2003, responsible for the company’s network infrastructure and for telecommunications services contracted from the country’s leading telecom operators.