Biography

I am a professor emeritus of Kyoto University. From 2022, I am working for Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University as a Dr. Kennedy Wong Distinguished Visiting Professor. I am also a board member of Shizuoka University of Art and Culture.

In terms of academics, I was a research scientist at NTT Laboratories, professor at Kyoto University, professor at Waseda University, visiting scientist/professor at Columbia University, Technische Universität München, Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6, University of Maryland, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tsinghua University, Xinjiang University, and Hong Kong Baptist University. I was a project leader at NTT Communication Science Laboratories from 1998 to 2004 and at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) from 2006 to 2010. I was an Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Web Semantics (Elsevier) and an Associate Editor of IEEE PAMI. I am a fellow of IEEE, IPSJ, and IEICE since 2002, 2005, and 2008, respectively. In 2011, I was the President of IEICE Information and Systems Society (IEICE-ISS), the Vice President of IEICE from 2014 to 2015, and the President of IEICE from 2021 to 2022. I was a research supervisor of JST PRESTO Information Environments and Humans, and a member of Science Council of Japan from 2011 to 2017.

My research interest lies in autonomous agents and multiagent systems, and I have been researching on this for more than 30 years. I have worked toward various conferences on autonomous agents and multiagent systems, including MACC/JAWS (Japanese), PRIMA (Asia/Pacific), and ICMAS/AAMAS (International). I have served as a Program Co-Chair of the second ICMAS, a Chair of the first PRIMA, and a General Co-Chair of the first AAMAS. I was an Associate Editor for the journal on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (Springer), and a board member of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agent and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS).

I have been working on action research projects, including Digital City Kyoto, Intercultural Collaboration Experiments, and Language Grid. I started a project on Digital City Kyoto in 1998. The portal site was opened until 2001. I initiated an Intercultural Collaboration Experiment (ICE) with Chinese, Korean, and Malaysian colleagues in 2002, a year after 9.11. In 2006, I began a project to create an online language service infrastructure. Since 2007, the Language Grid has been operated by the Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University and the Language Grid Association. 170 groups from 22 countries joined the Language Grid to share more than 220 language services.

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