Kyoto University Global COE｜Information Technology to Promote the Circulation of Knowledge

Field Informatics Core

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Member

■Members

Promotion Staff

Associate Professor Nobuaki ARAI Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics http://bre.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~arai/index-e.html arai AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Research: Aquatic biological Informatics, Biologging, Field Informatics, fisheries, endangered species Biography: Associate Professor Arai was born at Kyoto University Hospital and grew up in Kyoto. He graduated Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University and entered Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in 1980. He dealt with fishery administration for 13 years while exercising his skills in acquiring a research budget for fishery research laboratories and in regulating fisheries in the Seto Inland Sea and the northern fishery. In 1993, encouraged by his former teacher at Kyoto University, he returned to the university as an assistant in the Department of Fisheries in the Faculty of Agriculture. He has occupied his present position since 1998. He is involved in research into aquatic life activities using biotelemetry - the method of observing the invisible - which uses radio waves and ultrasonic transmitters to trace the activities of organisms. He conducts basic research for the preservation of various species and the acknowledgement of the coexistence of local societies, striving for the protection of rare aquatic animals such as sea turtles, dugongs and finless porpoises as well as the sustainable use of important species for fisheries such as red tilefish and Mekong giant catfish.
Professor Toru ISHIDA Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ishida/index.htm ishida AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Research: Artificial Intelligence, Digital City, Intercultural Collaboration Biography: Toru Ishida (Doctor of Engineering, Kyoto University) is a professor of Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University. Until 1993, he was a research scientist of NTT Laboratories. He spent some time at Columbia University, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, University of Maryland, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Tsinghua University as a visiting scholar/professor. He is an IEEE fellow from 2002. He has been working on autonomous agents and multiagent systems for twenty years. He also studies social informatics and running research projects related to digital cities and intercultural collaboration. He is a leader of the Language Grid project at NICT from 2006.
Professor Hajime KITA Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies / Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics http://www.ipe.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/indexE.html kita AT media.kyoto-u.ac.jp Research: System Engineering, Evolutionary Computation, Agent-Based Social Simulation, Information Education, Participatory Approaches to Production Biography: Hajime Kita received the B.E, M.E., and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from Kyoto University, in 1982, 1984, 1991, respectively. From 1987 to 1997, he worked as an Instructor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Kyoto University. From 1997 to 2000, he worked as an Associate Professor at the Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science of Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 2000 to 2003, he was a Professor of National Institution for Academic Degrees. Since 2003, He has been a Professor of Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University His research interests are Evolutionary Computation, Agent-Based Social Simulation, Information Education and Participatory Approaches to Production
Senior Lecturer Yutaka Yamauchi Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University http://www.yamauchi.net yamauchi[at]gsm.kyoto-u.ac.jp Research: Organization Theory, Ethnography, Ethnomethodology Biography: Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Informatics from Kyoto University Ph.D. from UCLA Anderson School of Management Previously a researcher at Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox Corporation)

Research Collaborator

Professor Tetsuro SAKAI Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics http://bg66.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/sakai/index_e.html sakai AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Research: Remote Sensing, GIS, Environmental Education, Forest & Mountain

Professor Yuichi NAKAMURA Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies / Graduate School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering http://www.ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yuichi/ yuichi AT media.kyoto-u.ac.jp Research: Image Understanding, Video Analysis, Human Behavior Recognition, Intelligent Media, Multimedia, e-Learning, Distant Learning, Video Conference, Human Communication, Natural Language Processing Biography: Yuichi Nakamura received B.E, M.E, and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from Kyoto University, in 1985, 1987, and 1992, respectively. From 1990 to 1993, he worked as an instructor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Kyoto University. From 1993 to 2004, he worked for Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics of University of Tsukuba, Institute of Engineering Mechanics and Systems of University of Tsukuba, as an assistant professor and an associate professor, respectively. Since 2004, he has been a professor of Academic Center of Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University. His research interests are on computer vision, multimedia, human-computer and human-human interaction including distance communication, and multimedia contents production.
Associate Professor Reiko HISHIYAMA Waseda University reiko AT waseda.jp Research: Intelligent Information Processing, Agent-Based Simulation, Participatory Design in Science Communication/Business Ethics&CSR/Community Involvement Biography: (2005) Associate Professor, Graduate School of Studies in Contemporary Society, Kyoto Women's University (2007) Associate Professor, School of/Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University. Ph.D.Informatics(Kyoto Univ., 2005)
Associate Professor Shigeo MATSUBARA Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~matsubara/index.html matsubara AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Research: Information Economics, Auction, Incentive matching Biography: 1992 M.E. in Precision Mechanics from Kyoto University. 1992-2006 NTT Communication Science Laboratories. 2002-2003 visiting researcher at University of California, Berkeley 2006-2007 advisor at NICT Language Grid project 2007- Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University
Professor Kazuyuki MORIYA Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics http://bre.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~moriya/moriyae.html moriya AT bre.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Research: Population Genetics, Environmental Education, Animal Production System Biography: The assistant professor of Department of Agriculture at Miyazaki University in 1991. The associate professor of Department of Agriculture at Kyoto University in 1998. The professor of Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto University since 1998. Doctor of Agriculture(Kyoto University), It was engaged in the research of genetic evaluation of domestic animals using population genetics and the statistical genetics technique, bio resource informatics. Society Member: Japanese Society of Zootechnical Science, The Japanese Agricultural Systems Society, Information Processing Society of Japan, Society of Beef Cattle Science etc.

Office Staff

Faculty

Global COE Assistant Professor Junichi OKUYAMA Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics http://bg66.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/okuyama/ okuyama AT bre.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Research: Biosphere Informatics, Biologging, Biotelemetry Biography: Ph.D.Informatics(Kyoto Univ., 2007) Experience Researcher, Kyoto Univ.(Apr.-Aug.2007) Researcher（GCOE), Kyoto Univ.(Sep.2007) Global COE Assistant Professor, Kyoto Univ.(Oct.2007-present)
Assistant Professor Takaaki TSUJI Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics tsuji.takaaki.4v AT kyoto-u.ac.jp Research: Higher Education, Faculty Development, Activity Theory, Ethnography Biography: -2007.3 Doctoral student, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University 2007.4-.9 Post Doctoral Fellow, Center for Human Activity Theory, Kansai University 2007.10- Researcher (GCOE), Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University 2008.3- Assistant Professor, Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Recent Published Articles: ・Tsuji, T.: Learning in a Distance and Collaborative Course that Connected Kyoto University and UCLA, Proceeding of the fourth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 58－65, 2006. ・Tsuji, T., Nishimura, S. & Nojima, E.: A situated approach to English learning in distance collaborative course which connect Japanese students and American students, Japan journal of educational technology, Vol.30, No.4, pp. 397－407, 2007. ・Takaaki Tsuji: Creation of field informatics and the characteristic of the methodology, Journal of the International Association of Project & Program Management, Vol.4, No.1, pp:159－168, 2009. ・Takaaki Tsuji: An Activity Theory Approach to Exercises in Video Production in a University Class, Collaboration and Education, Vol.7, pp:35－46, 2011.