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

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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 KAZUO IWAMA Department of Communications and Computer Engineering Design and analysis of algorithms, Computational complexity, Quantum Computation, Stable matching problems, Satisfiability problems http://www.lab2.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~iwama/index.html iwama AT kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp Professor Iwama received B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyoto University in 1973, 1975 and 1980, respectively. He was Associate Professor of Kyoto Sangyo (Industrial) University, Visiting Associate Professor of UC Berkeley, Associate Professor of Kyushu University, and Professor of Kyushu University. Since 1997, he has been in the present post. Professor Iwama's reseach interets are mainly algorithms and complexity theory.
Professor HIROSHI OKUNO Department of Intelligence Science and Technology Computational auditory scene analysis, music information processing, intelligent robotics, robot audition http://winnie.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~okuno/souran_e.html okuno AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Prof. Okuno received B.A. and Ph.D from the University of Tokyo in 1972 and 1996, respectively. He worked for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone till 1998, Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project of JST, and Tokyo University of Science. He has been a professor of Kyoto University since 2001. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University, and a visiting associate rofessor at the University of Tokyo. He has done research in programming anguages, parallel processing, and reasoning mechanism in AI, and he is urrently engaged in computational auditory scene analysis, music scene analysis and robot audition.
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
Professor SADAO KUROHASHI Graduate School of Informatics (Department of Intelligence Science and Technology) natural language processing, machine translation, information retrieval, knowledge engineering http://nlp.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kuro/index.html kuro AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Sadao Kurohashi received the B.S., M.S., and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Kyoto University in 1989, 1991 and 1994, respectively. He has been a visiting researcher of IRCS, University of Pennsylvania in 1994. He is currently a professor of the Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto University. His research interests include natural language processing, knowledge acquisition/representation, and information retrieval.
Professor SHIGEO KOBAYASHI Department of Intelligence Science and Technology biological information, thermal receptor, sensation, neurobiology skoba AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Graduated from Kyoto University, Faculty of Technology. Obtained Master of Education from University of Tokyo. Obtaiend Ph.D. from University of Tokyo. Associate Professor at Yamaguchi University, Associate Professor at Kyoto University, Faculty of Integrated Human Studies. Professor at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Informatics. Research field is Biological Information. I study sensation as virtual reality, which is made by the brain. I have started a study to identify brain-substance that makes mind in Paramecium, based on the hypothesis that one-cell organism is prototype of animals.
Professor Katsumi Tanaka Graduate School of Informatics (Department of Social Informatics) Web search, video retrieval, database, multimedia information systems http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tanaka/ tanaka AT dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp Professor Katsumi Tanaka received the BS, MS and PhD degrees in Information Science from Kyoto University, in 1974, 1976 and 1981, respectively. In 1986, he joined the Department of Instrumentation Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at Kobe University, as an associate professor. In 1994, he became a full professor at the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Kobe University. Since 2001, he has been a professor of the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. His research interests include database theory and systems, Web search, video retrieval, and multimedia information systems.
Professor HIROSHI NAKASHIMA Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (also belonging to Dept. System Science as a cooperative faculty) Parallel Systems Architecture, Parallel Programming Languages, Parallel Applications http://www.para.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ h.nakashima AT media.kyoto-u.ac.jp Prof. Nakashima received his M.E. and Ph.D. degree from Kyoto University. After his R&D carrier as the chief architect of the Fifth Generation Computers in Mitsubishi Electric Corp., he has been pursuing research work on a wide spectrum of parallel processing, from architecture to applications.
Professor YOSHIMASA NAKAMURA Graduate School of Informatics (Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics) integrable systems, computational mathematics, numerical linear algebra http://www-is.amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ynaka/index-e.html ynaka AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp He got PhD in 1983 from Kyoto University. After working for Gifu University, Doshisha University and Osaka University, he is now a professor of Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. His subject is applied mathematics, especially, global analysis and applied analysis of integrable dynamical systems. Main publication is the book “Functionality of Integrable Systems” (in Japanese) on a new fast and accurate singular value decomposition algorithm which is published in 2006, Kyoritsu, Tokyo.
Professor HIROSHI NAGAMOCHI Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics graph theory, combinatorial optimization, algorithm http://www-or.amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/members/nag/index-e.html nag AT amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Prof. Nagamochi obtained his doctoral degree of Engineering from Kyoto University in 1988. After that he worked as an assistant professor for Toyohashi University of Technology, then Kyoto University. He had a visiting position at Simon Fraser University, Canada, before he became an associate professor of Kyoto University in 1993. In 2000, he became a professor of Toyohashi University of Technology after having a visiting position at Newcastle University, Australia. And now he is now a professor of Kyoto University since 2004. His research interests include graph theory, combinatorial optimization, algorithms, operation research and many others.
Professor TOYOAKI NISHIDA Department of Intelligence Science and Technology conversational informatics, social intelligence design, artificial intelligence http://www.ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~nishida/ nishida AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Toyoaki Nishida is a professor of Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. He received the Doctor of Engineering degree from Kyoto University in 1984. His research centers on artificial intelligence and human computer interaction. In 2001, he founded a series of international workshops on social intelligence design. Then, he broadened the scope of research to include understanding and augmenting conversational communication, and opened up a new field of research called Conversational Informatics. Currently, he leads several projects on social intelligence design and conversational informatics. He is a member of the board of directors of IPS (Information Processing Society) of Japan and JSAI (Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence). He serves as an editorial board member of several academic journals, including Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, AI & Society, and Journal of JSAI (editor-in-chief).
Professor Yoshinori Hara Graduate School of Management Innovation Management, IT & Service Innovation, Open Innovation http://www.gsm.kyoto-u.ac.jp/hara/index-e.html hara AT gsm.kyoto-u.ac.jp Dr. Yoshinori Hara serves as professor, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, since April 2006, when the graduate school was established. His current research focus includes innovation management, service and design management, and open innovation with IT frameworks. Prior to joining Kyoto University, he held various research and key management positions at R&D organizations in NEC Corporation, for 13 years in Japan, and for 10 years in the Silicon Valley, California, USA. He was responsible for conducting research and development on advanced ubiquitous computing including Web/Hypermedia systems, mobile & embedded systems, adaptive user interfaces, advanced information retrieval technologies, system security & reliable systems, etc. >From 1990 to 1991, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Computer Science, Stanford University. He received his B.E. and M.E. from University of Tokyo, and his Ph.D. from Kyoto University.
Professor MASAO FUKUSHIMA Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics Optimization, Mathematical Programming, Operations Research http://www-optima.amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~fuku/fuku-e.html fuku AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Masao Fukushima is Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. He received B. Eng., M. Eng. and Dr. Eng. from Kyoto University. He is interested in theory and applications of nonlinear optimization including variational inequality and complementarity problems, nonsmooth optimization, stochastic optimization, and global optimization. He is a Co-Editor of Pacific Journal of Optimization (PJO), and is currently serving as an associate editor of more than 10 international journals including SIAM Journal on Optimization (SIOPT), Optimization Methods and Software (OMS), Computational and Applied Optimization (COAP), Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (JOTA) and European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR).
Professor TAKASHI MATSUYAMA Department of Intelligence Science and Techonology Image Understanding, Cooperative Distributed Processing,3D Video, Computer vision, Human Communication http://vision.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.html tm AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Takashi Matsuyama received the Doctor of Engineering degrees from Kyoto University Faculty of Engineering in 1980 respectively. He is currently a professor in the Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate school of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan. He is also a Director-General of the Institute for Information Management and Communication, also at Kyoto University. He was a recipient of the Marr Prize at the 5th International Conference of Computer Vision in 1995 and won the Funai Best Paper award at IPSJ FIT Conference 2005. He is interested in Image Understanding, Cooperative Distributed Vision and Three Dimensional Video Capture.
Professor MICHIHIKO MINOH Department of Digital Content Research, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies Multimedia data processing, Interaction, Ubiquitous computing http://www.mm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/members/minoh/index-e.php minoh AT media.kyoto-u.ac.jp Michihiko Minoh is a professor at Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS), Kyoto University, Japan. 　　He received the B.Eng., M.Eng. and D.Eng.degrees in Information Science from Kyoto University, in 1978, 1980 and 1983, respectively. 　　He has been a director of ACCMS since 2006. His research interest includes a variety area of Image Processing，Artificial Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, particularly, model centered frame work for the computer system to help visual communication among humans and information media structure for human communication. 　　He is a member of Information Processing Society of Japan, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan, the IEEE computer society and communication society, and ACM.
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)
Professor MASATOSHI YOSHIKAWA Graduate School of Informatics (Department of Social Informatics) XML Databases, Web Information Retrieval, Information Integration http://www.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yoshikawa/ yoshikawa AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp He received Ph.D. degrees from Department of Information Science, Kyoto University in 1985. He was on the faculty of Kyoto Sangyo University from 1985 until 1993. From 1989 to 1990, he was a visiting scientist at University of Southern California. In 1993, he joined Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) as a faculty member. From April 1996 to January 1997, he has stayed at University of Waterloo as a visiting associate professor. From June 2002 to March 2006, he served as a professor at Nagoya University. From April 2006, he has been a professor at Kyoto University. His research interests include database query processing, XML databases, index structures and Web informatin retrieval.

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Associate Professor Akito Igarashi Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics Information Physics, Complex networks,Stochastic Process, Computational Physics http://amech.amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/personal/igarashi/igarashiE.html igarashi AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Education: 1971-1975 Dep. Appl. Math. & Phys. Kyoto University, Awarded the degree of the Bachelor of Engineering 1975-1977 Dep. Appl. Math. & Phys. Kyoto University, Awarded the degree of the Master of Engineering 1982 A the degree of the Doctor of Engineering from Kyoto University Research and Professional Experience: 1977-1990 Research Associate at Dep. Appl. Math. & Phys., Kyoto University 1990-present Associate Professor at Dep. Appl. Math. & Phys., Kyoto University Areas of Interest: Packet Routing Strategy on Complex Information Networks Stochastic Models of Molecular Motors Information Processing and Stochastic Resonance
Professor Shin Ishii Department of Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics Computational biology, reinforcement learning, systems neurobiology, bioinformatics, machine learning http://hawaii.naist.jp/~ishii/index.html ishii AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Shin Ishii received his ME and PhD degrees in 1988 and 1997, respectively, from the University of Tokyo. Before joining Kyoto University in July 2007, he has been a professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology after a 9-year career at two private research laboratories. His major research area is computational biology including reinforcement learning, systems neurobiology, bioinformatics and machine learning.
Associate Professor Hiro Ito Department of Communications and Computer Engineering Graph and Network Algorithms, Discrete Geometry, Combinatorial Games and Puzzles http://www.lab2.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~itohiro/index.html itohiro AT kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp He received the B.E., M.E., and Dr. of Engineering degrees in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics from the Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University in 1985, 1987, and 1995, respectively. 1987-1996 and 1996-2001, he was a member of NTT Laboratories and Toyohashi University of Technology, respectively. Since 2001, he has been in the present post. He has been engaged in research on algorithms on graphs and networks, discrete geometry, and the theory of combinatorial games and puzzles.
Professor Toshihiro Iwai Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics Geometric mechanics, Geometry of quantum entanglement http://yang.amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~iwai/index_e.html iwai AT amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp 1971 graduated from Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University 1973 graduated from Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Graduate school of Engineering (master course), Kyoto University 1994 Professor at Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University 1998 Professor at Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Associate Professor Takeshi Iwashita Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies Linear iterative solver, High performance computing, Electromagnetic field analysis iwashita AT media.kyoto-u.ac.jp Takeshi Iwashita received the M.Eng. degree and Ph.D. degree from the department of electrical engineering in Kyoto University, Japan, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. From 1998 to 1999, he worked as a research associate in Kyoto University for a Japanese national project (JSPS-RFTF project) on software for distributed parallel computing environment. In 2000, he joined the Data Processing Center in the same university. Since 2003 he has worked as an associate professor in the Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University. From 2003 to 2004, he was a visiting fellow of Griffith University in Australia. His research interests include high performance computing, linear iterative solvers, and electromagnetic field simulations.
Research Associate Seiji Umatani Department of Communications and Computer Engineering programming language, parallel processing, distributed system umatani AT kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp Seiji Umatani was born in 1974, and received the B.E. degree in informatics and mathematical science, M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in informatics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1999, 2001, and 2004, respectively. In 2004--2005, he was a research staff in the Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto University. In 2005, he became an research associate in the Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto University. His current research interest includes programming languages, compilers, and parallel/distributed systems. He is a member of JSSST and ACM.
Professor Tatsuya Kawahara Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies Speech Processing http://www.ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/EN/ kawahara AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Tatsuya Kawahara received the B.E. degree in 1987, the M.E. degree in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in 1995, all in information science, from Kyoto University. In 1990, he became a Research Associate in the Department of Information Science. From 1995 to 1996, he was a Visiting Researcher at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA. Currently, he is a Professor in the Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Informatics. He has published more than 100 technical papers covering speech recognition, spoken language processing, and spoken dialogue systems. He has been managing several speech-related projects in Japan including a free large vocabulary continuous speech recognition software project (http://julius.sourceforge.jp/).
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 Hideaki Sakai Department of Systems Science Statistics for Signals (Statistical and Numerical Aspects of Signal Processing) http://www.msys.sys.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~hsakai/index.html hsakai AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp He received the B.E. and D.E. degrees in applied mathematics and physics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1972 and 1981, respectively. From 1975 to 1978, he was with Tokushima University. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. He spent 6 months from 1987 to 1988 at Stanford University as a Visiting Scholar. His research interests are in the areas of adaptive and statistical signal processing. He served as an associate editor of IEEE Trans. Signal Processing from Jan. 1999 to Jan. 2001.
Assistant Professor Aki-Hiro Sato Graduate School of Informatics (Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics) agent-based modeling, stochastic processes, statistical mechanics, econophysics, econoinformatics http://amech.amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~aki/index-e.html aki AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp My research interests are the issues of microscopic dynamics and statistical properties in complex systems from viewpoint of similarity, causality, and universality. My research motivation is to find fundamental principles to design a relationship between agents from Informatics point of view. I investigate multi-dimensional quantification and visualization of behavioral patterns of multi-agents considering that it is significant to bridge the gap between microscopic dynamics and macroscopic properties through stochastic processes.

Professor Yutaka Takahashi Dept. of Systems Science Information Systems, Queueing Theory, Traffic Modelling and Analysis, Performance Evaluation of Networking, Autonomous Networking http://infosys.sys.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takahashi/takahashi-e.html takahashi AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Yutaka Takahashi was with the Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University from1980 to 1996. From 1996 to 1999 he was a professor of Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) and since 1999 he has been a professor at the Department of Systems Science, the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. From 1983 to 1984 he was with INRIA, France, as an Invited Professor. He was a Cochairman of IFIP TC6 WG6.3 from 1992 to 2002 and is currently on the Editorial Boards of four international journals, Telecommunication Systems, Mobile Networks & Applications, Wireless Network Journal and Journal of Networks. He served as the project leader for the Kobe Multi-node Integrated Connection Research Center established by the Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan (TAO), and was awarded the Silver Core from IFIP and a fellow from the Operations Research Society of Japan. His research interests include queueing theory and its application to performance analysis of computer communication systems.
associate professor Kiyotsugu Takaba department of applied Mathematics and physics robust control, optimal control, behavioral approach, constrained systems http://seigyo.amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takaba/ takaba AT amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Kiyotsugu Takaba received B.Eng. degree in applied mathematics and physics, M. Eng. degree in applied systems science and Dr. Eng. degree in applied mathematics and physics all from Kyoto University in 1989, 1991 and 1996, respectively. Since 1991, he has been with the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics in Kyoto University, where he is presently an Associate Professor. In 2000, he was a visiting researcher at University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His research interest includes behavioral system theory, robust and optimal control for multi-variable dynamical systems. He has been a member of IFAC Technical Committee of Linear Systems since 2003. He is also a member of IEEE, ISCIE and SICE.
Assistant Professor Suguru Tamaki Department of Communications and Computer Engineering computational complexity, algorithm, satisfiability problem, proof complexity http://www.lab2.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tamak/index.html tamak AT kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp He received B.E. from Department of Engineering, Kyoto University in 2001 and Master, Ph.D. of Informatics from School of Informatics, Kyoto University in 2003, 2006. Since 2006, he has been in the present post. He has been engaged in research on computational complexity, algorithm, satisfiability problem, proof complexity.
Associate Professor Liang Zhao Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics network optimization, algorithm, Internet http://www-or.amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/members/liang/ liang AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Dr. Zhao obtained his doctoral degree of Informatics from Kyoto University in 2002. After that he worked as an assistant professor for Utsunomiya University before he became an associate professor at Kyoto University since 2006. His research interests include network optimization and algorithm, especially algorithms with applications for the Internet.
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.
Assistant Professor Kazunori Hayashi Department of Systems Science wireless communications, signal processing http://www.msys.sys.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kazunori/index_e.html kazunori AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp He received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in communication engineering from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1997, 1999 and 2002, respectively. Since 2002, he has been with the Department of Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. He is currently an Assistant Professor there. His research interests include signal processing for communications systems.
Assistant Professor Shunsuke Hayashi Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics Optimization, Mathematical Programming, Operations Research shunhaya AT amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Shunsuke Hayashi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. He earned B. Eng., from The University of Tokyo, and M. Info. and Dr. Info. from Kyoto University. After earning the doctor's degree, he served as a post-doctoral researcher in University of Minnesota and National Cheng Kung University. He is interested in theory and applications of optimization including conic programmings, semi-infinite programmings, and their application to the signal processing. He belongs to The Operations Research Society of Japan, and The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers.
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)
Assistant Professor Takuro Fukunaga Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics Combinatorial Optimization, Graph Theory, Discrete Mathematics http://www-or.amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/members/takuro/index_e.html takuro AT amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp He received the Doctor of Informatics from Kyoto University in 2007. From March in 2007, he is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. His research interests include optimization problems with discrete objects.
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.
Associate Professor Masahiro Yasugi Department of Communications and Computer Engineering programming language, language system, parallel processing http://www.yuasa.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yasugi/ yasugi AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Masahiro Yasugi received a Bachelors degree in electronic engineering, a Masters degree in electrical engineering, and a Ph.D. degree in information science from the University of Tokyo in 1989, 1991 and 1994 respectively. In the mid-1990's he was a fellow of JSPS (at the University of Tokyo and University of Manchester). Since 1998, he is an Associate Professor at Kyoto University. His research interests include programming languages and parallel processing.
Assistant Professor YAMAGUCHI, Yoshiyuki Applied Mathematics and Physics Hamiltonian Dynamics, Statistical Mechanics, Non-equilibrium state http://yang.amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yyama/index.html yyama AT amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp He has gotten a PhD title from Nagoya university by studies on Hamiltonian systems with many degrees of freedom in March 1998. He is adopted as a post-doctral fellow of Ritsumeikan university in April 1998, and studied renormalization group method for differential equations. He is adopted as a assistant professor of Kyoto university in April 1999, and has been studing statistical and dynamical features of Hamiltonian systems with many degrees of freedom.
Associate Professor Nobuo Yamashita Applied Mathemtatics and Physics Mathemtatical Programming, Equilibrium Problems, Operations Research http://www-optima.amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~nobuo/nobuo-e.html nobuo AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Education: (1993) Bachelor's degree from School of Engineering, University of Tokyo. (1996) Ph. D degree from Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology. Employments: (1997-1998) Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University (1998-2005) Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto
Professor Akihiro　Yamamoto Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Gradudate Scool of Informatics Kyoto University Inductive Inference, Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery http://www.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/%7Eakihiro/cve.html akihiro AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Akihiro Yamamoto received the B.S. degree from Kyoto University in 1985, and the Dr.Sci. degree from Kyushu University　in 1990 respectively. He worked as an Lecturer and an Associate Professor at Hokkaido University from 1990 to 2003. He is now a Professor of Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto University. His present interests include Inductive Logic Programming, and its applications to Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery.
Assistant Professor Masaki Yamamoto Department of Communications and Computer Engineering algorithm, satisfiability problem, worst-case/average-case complexity http://www.lab2.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~masaki.yamamoto masaki.yamamoto AT kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp He received the M.E., and Dr. of Science in Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2000 and 2006, respectively. In 2000-2003, he was a member of NEC development laboratories. Since 2006, he has been in the present post. He has been engaged in research mainly on various algorithmic aspects of satisfiability problem, worst-case complexity and average-case complexity, in particular.
Professor Taiichi Yuasa Department of Communications and Computer Engineering programming language, language processor, symbolic processing http://www.yuasa.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yuasa yuasa AT kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp Taiichi Yuasa was born in Kobe, Japan, in 1952. He received the Bachelor of Mathematics degree in 1977, the Master of Mathematical Sciences degree in 1979, and the Doctor of Science degree in 1987, all from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. He joined the faculty of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, in 1982. He is currently a Professor at Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. His current area of interest include symbolic computation, programming language systems, and parallel computation. Dr. Yuasa is a member of ACM, IEEE, Information Processing Society of Japan, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, and Japan Society for Software Science and Technology.

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Researcher（GCOE) Mayumi UEDA Dept. of Intelligence Science and Technology,Graduate School of I formatics, Kyoto Univ. recommendation system, course management system http://www.mm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/index.html mayumi AT mm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp 2003.3 Received the doctorate degree in informatics, graduate school of informatics, Kansai University. In 2003.4 - 2004.12 she was a researcher of Cybermedia Center, Osaka Univ. In 2005.1 - 2008.2 she was a researcher of Information Technology Center, Nagoya Univ. Since 2008.3,she was a researcher of graduate school of Infomatics, Kyoto Univ. Her research interests includes personalization of information retrieval, recommendation syste, and course management system.
Assistant Professor Shogo Okada Department of Intelligence Science and Technology Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Neural Network, Artificial Intelligence http://www.ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~okada.s/index_j.html okada_s AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Shogo Okada received the B.E. degree in engineering from the Yokohama National University, Japan, and the M.E. degree and the PhD degree in engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2003, 2005 and 2008, respectively. He has worked as an assistant professor at Kyoto University since 2008. His research interests include gesture understanding and Self-organizing Incremental Neural Network.
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)
Professor Kazutoshi Sumiya School of Human Science and Environment, University of Hyogo sumiya AT shse.u-hyogo.ac.jp information search・WWW・content integration・multimedia DOB: September 7,1963 Professor, Department of Environmental Information, Graduate School of Human Science and Environment, University of Hyogo, April 2004 to present Associate Professor, Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, September 2001 to March 2004 Associate Professor, Research Center for Urban Safety and Security, Kobe University, April 2000 to September 2001 Lecturer, Research Center for Urban Safety and Security, Kobe University, April 1999 to March 2000 Leaving Panasonic Corporation, March 1999 Ph.D. in Information media, Kobe University, 1998 Entering Panasonic Corporation, 1988 M.S. in Engineering, Kobe University, 1988
Assistant Professor Toru Takahashi Graduate School of Informatics Robot audition, Speech synthesis, Speech recognition, Speech and acoustic signal processing http://winnie.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tall/home-e.html tall AT kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp Toru Takahashi received the B.E. degree in computer science, the M.E. degree and the D.E. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, in 1996, 1998 and 2004, respectively. He had worked as a research assistant for about 4 years in Wakayama University. He has been working for Kyoto University since February 1, 2008. His research interests are human speech synthesis and recognition including HMM speech synthesis, STRAIGHT (speech analysis, modification, synthesis system), and HMM base speech recognition system. To realize synthesizing expressive speech, general speech modification framework named speech texture mapping was proposed. Currently, he is developing HRI-JP Audition for Robots with Kyoto University (HARK) system, STRAIGHT system, and Speech Signal Tool Kit (SPTK).
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.
Researcher（GCOE) Nimit PATTANASRI Dept. of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Information retrieval and comprehension, data mining and comprehension http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~nimit nimit AT dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp Nimit Pattanasri received the doctorate degree in Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University in 2007. During 2008.4 - 2010.3, he was a researcher at Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University. Now he becomes a researcher at Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Infomatics, Kyoto University. His research interests include information retrieval and data mining.
Research Associate Shohei NOBUHARA Visual Information Processing Group (Department of Intelligence Science and Technology) Computer Vision, 3D Video http://vision.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~nob/index.php.en nob AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Shohei Nobuhara received his B.Sc. in Engeneering, M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Informatics from Kyoto University, Japan in 2000, 2002, and 2005 respectively. From 2005 to 2007, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Kyoto University. Since 2007, he has been a research associate at Kyoto University. His research interest includes computer vision and 3D video.

Global COE Assistant Professor Yoshinori Yamakawa Graduate School of Informatics internet business development, innovation management, and social cognitive neuroscience http://bi-lab.org/ yamakawa AT bi-lab.org 1998 B.S. in Molecular biology from Faculty of Science, Kyoto University. 2000 M.S. in Neurophysiology from Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University. 2000-2004 Internet Business Development Office, NEC Corporation 2004-2008 Assistant Manager, Corporate Planning Division, NEC Corporation 2008 Ph.D. in Cognitive neuroscience from Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University. His research interests include internet business development, innovation management, and social cognitive neuroscience.