Biography

• Job History
• Academic Degrees
• Awards

Job History

• Professor (Apr. 2003 - present)
  Faculty 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
  [belonged to Department of Knowledge Systems, I.S.I.R., 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
  [belonged to Department of Knowledge Systems, I.S.I.R., 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

Awards

• Best Paper Award at Symposium of Object Orientation (Aug. 2002)
  Information Processing Society of Japan.
• Research Award (Jun. 1998)
  Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence.
• Research Award (Dec. 1992)
  Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence.