Ken Lunde (born Madison, Wisconsin, 1965) is a specialist in information processing for East Asian languages. He is known in East Asia as 小林劍 (in Han characters), pronounced in Japanese as Kobayashi Ken, which echoes his name of Viking origin. He is also an accomplished photographer, specializing in firearms and cutlery, and an avid varmint and larger game hunter.
Ken majored in linguistics at University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he obtained his Bachelor's degree in 1987, Master of Arts degree in 1988, and graduated with a doctoral thesis on the simplification of Chinese characters in 1994.
Prior to graduation, he joined Adobe Systems in 1991, where he continues to work on font development and programming (with expertise in the C and Perl programming languages) for information processing in CJKV languages. He wrote two books on these topics. He recently revised the second one, "CJKV Information Processing," and Second Edition was published at the end of 2008.