Masanori Hirotomo received the B.E., M.E. and D.E degrees from the University of Tokushima, Japan, in 2000, 2002, and 2006 respectively.
From 2005 to 2006 he was a Research Associate at the Department of Intelligent Systems and Information Science, Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokushima, Japan.
From 2006 to 2008 he was a Researcher at the Hyogo Institute of Information Education Foundation, Japan.
From 2008 to 2011 he was an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Japan.
From 2011 to 2013 he was an Assistant Professor at the Computer and Network Center, Saga University, Japan.
Since 2013, he has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Science, Saga University, Japan.
His research interests are in coding theory and information security.
He is a member of the IEEE and IEICE.