Biography

• Awards
• Job History
• Academic Degrees

Awards

• Outstanding SIG Research Award (Sep. 2020)
  Japanese Society for Information and Systems in Education
• Outstanding SIG Research Award (Aug. 2017)
  Japanese Society for Information and Systems in Education
• Best Paper Award (Nov. 2016)
  Entertainment Computing 2016, Information Processing Society of Japan
• Distinguished Presentation Award (Jun. 2014)
  The 11th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology
• Field Innovation Award 2013 Gold Prize (Jun. 2014)
  Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence
• Best Paper Award (Aug. 2002)
  Symposium of Object Orientation, Information Processing Society of Japan
• Research Award (Jun. 1998)
  Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence
• Research Award (Dec. 1992)
  Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence

Job History

• Professor (Apr. 2003 - present)
  Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University
• Councilor (May 2015 - Sep. 2020)
  Kansai University
• Trustee (Oct. 2012 - Sep. 2014)
  Kansai University
• Dean, Faculty of Informatics/Graduate School of Informatics (Oct. 2012 - Sep. 2014)
  Kansai University
• Director, Research Center for Advanced Informatics (Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2013)
  Graduate School of Informatics, Kansai University
• Senior Researcher & Group Leader (Apr. 2002 - Mar. 2003)
  IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory
• Advisory Researcher (Jan. 1997 - Mar. 2002)
  IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory
• Researcher (Apr. 1989 - Dec. 1996)
  IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory

Academic Degrees

• Dr. Eng. (Mar. 1989)
  Department of Computer & Information Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science
  (currently, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology), Osaka University
  Dissertation: Study on Language Processing Method for Speech Understanding System.
• M. Eng. (Mar. 1986)
  Department of Computer & Information Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science
  (currently, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology), Osaka University
• B. Eng. (Mar. 1984)
  Department of Biophysical Engineering (currently, Division of Biophysical Engineering, Dept. of Systems Science), School of Ensineering Science, Osaka University