Ken Lunde

Ken Roger Lunde (/ˈlʌndi/,[1] born 12 August 1965 in Madison, Wisconsin)[2] is an American specialist in information processing for East Asian languages.

Lunde majored in linguistics at University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1985, where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1987, Master of Arts degree in 1988, and graduated with a doctoral thesis on the simplification of Japanese characters in 1994, titled "Prescriptive Kanji Simplification",[2] which was written under the supervision of Professor Andrew Sihler.

Prior to graduation, he joined Adobe Systems on July 1, 1991,[3] where he worked on font development and programming for information processing in CJKV languages; as of 2008, he worked there as a Senior Computer Scientist.

[10][11] He is also chair of the CJK & Unihan Working Group under the Unicode Technical Committee.

The surname Lunde, of Viking origin, shares the same meaning (“small woods” or “grove”) conveyed by the Japanese surname 小林; the given name 剣 (and its variant forms like 劍 in Japan's national standard JIS X 0208:1997), chosen both for its phonemic value and for its meaning (“sword”), conveys his fondness for sharp-edged tools like knives.