(at ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2015 Asia Region, Tsukuba)

Affiliation

Contact

Education

March 1989: Bachelor of Engineering (Department of Information Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan)

March 1991: Master of Engineering (Department of Information Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan)

March 1997: Doctor of Engineering, Kyoto Univeristy

Experience

April 1994 - November 1997: Assistant, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.

December 1997 - March 2007: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Okayama Prefectural University, Japan.

April 2007 - March 2011: Associate Professor, Department of Systems Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Okayama Prefectural University, Japan.

April 2007 - March 2011: Associate Professor, Department of Communication Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Okayama Prefectural University, Japan. (Concurrent post)

April 2011 - : Associate Professor, Department of Communication Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Okayama Prefectural University, Japan.

Laboratories

December 1997 - March 2014: Intelligent Media Laboratory (Yokota Laboratory)

April 2014 - Now: Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Iwahashi Laboratory)

Part-time Lecturer

October 2001 - March 2003: Part-time Lecturer, Department of Communications, Faculty of Intercultural Studies, Sanyo Gakuen University. (Lecture name: Information Systems)

April 2002 - September 2008: Part-time Lecturer, Department of Biosphere-Geosphere System Science, Faculty of Information Science, Okayama University of Science. (Lecture name: Databases)

October 2004 - March 2009: Part-time Lecturer, Department of Communications, Faculty of Communications, Sanyo Gakuen University. (Lecture name: Information Systems)

September 2009 - March 2016: Part-time Lecturer, Department of Psychology & Human Life, Faculty of Human Sciences, Sanyo Gakuen University. (Lecture name: Information Systems, Databases)

Publications

• My DBLP Entry
• I translated the following books and documents into Japanese:
• “Data on the Web” (S. Abiteboul, P. Buneman, and D. Suciu).  This translation was published from Kyoritsu Publishing Co. Ltd. in 2006.
• XPath 2.0 Candidate Recommendation, W3C CR-xpath20-20060608.
• XQuery 1.0 Candidate Recommendation, W3C CR-xquery-20060608.

Research Interest

XML, semistructured data, structured documents, web services, web design technology, metadata, semantic web, document processing, typesetting, fonts.

Professional Activities

• Vice Program Chair, 3rd International Special Workshop on Databases For Next Generation Researchers (SWOD2007)
• Program Committee, 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA2007)
• Conference Officer, 21st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2005)
• Local Arrangement Chair, 15th International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering (RIDE2005)
• Co-Chair, 1st International Special Workshop on Databases For Next Generation Researchers (SWOD2005)
• Program Committee, 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2001)
• Organizing Committee, International Symposium on Digital Media Information Base (DMIB'97)

For other domestic professional activities, see Japanese page.

Members of ACM, IEEE Computer Society, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), The Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), the Database Society of Japan (DBSJ), Japanese Society for the Science of Design (JSSD), and the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (VRSJ).

Awards

Information and Systems Society Distinguished Service Award, IEICE, 2008.