History

Personal Background

Sep, 1979: Born in Los Angeles, USA
Mar, 1994: Moved to Hyogo, Japan

Academic Background

Apr, 1998 - Mar, 2002: Kansai University, Faculty of Informatics (B.S Informatics)
Apr, 2002 - Mar, 2004: Graduate School of Informatics, Kansai University (M.S Informatics)

Master Thesis:

Computational Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Behavior of Collaborative Multi-Avatars in Digital Campus

Apr, 2004 - Sep, 2008: Graduate School of Informatics, Kansai University (Ph.D. Informatics) (Ueshima Lab.)

Dissertation Title: VIRTUAL COLLABORATIVE SPACE AND ITS EXTENSIVE APPLICATIONS

Professional Background

Sep, 2003 - Mar, 2010: Part-time Lecturer at Otemae University (Computer Network, etc.)
Apr, 2003 - Mar, 2004: TA (Teaching Assistant) at Kansai University
Apr, 2007 - Jul, 2007: RA (Research Assistant) at Graduate School of Kansai University
Apr, 2008 - Sep, 2008: RA (Research Assistant) at Graduate School of Kansai University
Nov, 2008 - Mar, 2010: Post-doctoral Research Associate at Kwansei Gakuin University (Kono Lab.)
Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2013: Research Associate at Ritsumeikan University
Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2017: Tokunin Assistant Professor at Ritsumeikan University (Takada Lab.)
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2017: Guest Researcher at Organization for Research and Development of Innovative Science and Technology (ORDIST) ,Kansai University
Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2017: Part-time Lecturer at Kyoto Women's University
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2019: Tokumei Assistant Professor at Kobe University (Ohkawa Lab.)
Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2022: Associate Professor at Shiga University
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2023: Part-time Lecturer at Kyoto Women's University
Apr, 2022 - Present: Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Osaka Kyoiku University

Certificates & Awards

Mar, 2004: Special Teaching Certificate of Senior High School (Informatics)
Apr, 2004 - Mar, 2007: Special Scholarship of Kansai University
May, 2010: TOEIC Test (Over 900)
Sep, 2017: Best Paper Award (Co-Author) for The 6th IIAE International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Image Processing 2017 (ICISIP 2017)
Mar, 2021: Employee Commendations (President's Award) at Shiga University

Research Grant

Jun, 2005: Grants for Researchers Attending International Conferences from the Foundation for C&C Promotion (ED-MEDIA 2005)
Aug, 2005: Grants for Researchers Attending International Conferences from the Hara Research Foundation (IEEE PACRIM 2005)
Jun, 2009: Grants for Researchers Attending International Conferences from the International Information Science Foundation (ED-MEDIA 2009)
Oct, 2012: Grants for Researchers Attending International Conferences from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (MOBILITY 2012)
Jul, 2015 - Mar, 2016: Advanced Research Programs, AY2015 Program for Research of Young Scientists (Wakate-kenkyu) (Ritsumeikan University)
Jun, 2016 - Mar, 2017: Program for Application of the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI acquisition promotion) (Ritsumeikan University)
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2019: KAKEN Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Activities in Academic Societies

Jun, 2005: Session Chair of ED-MEDIA 2005 Conference (Montreal, Canada)
Dec, 2007: Session Co-Chair of P2P-NVE 2007 Conference (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
Jan, 2009: Session Chair of C5-2009 Conference (Kyoto, Japan)
Aug, 2011: Program Committee of HAID 2011 Conference Poster and Demo Session (Shiga, Japan)
Sep, 2011: Committee Member of Open Seminar (English Research Discussion Group in Ritsumeikan University)
Sep, 2013 - Present: Program Committee of UBICOMM Conference
Nov, 2013 - 2016: Program Committee of MOBILITY Conference
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2018: Committee Member of IPSJ SIG Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Communications
Nov, 2016: Committee Member and Session Chair of BWCCA 2016 (Asan, Korea)
Jan, 2018: Editorial Committee of the Journal of Information Processing (IPSJ), Special issue of "Intelligent Transportation Systems and Mobile Communication toward Super Smart Society''
Apr, 2018 - Present: Specially-Appointed Committee Member of IPSJ SIG Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Communications
May, 2018: Program Committee of the 87th IPSJ SIG Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Communications (MBL) Symposium
Sep, 2018: Session Chair of The 68th National Convention of Kansai Animal Science Society (Tokushima, Japan)
Jan, 2019: Editorial Committee of the Journal of Information Processing (IPSJ), Special issue of "Pervasive System and Intelligent Transportation Systems for Future Life''
Sep, 2019: Session Chair of Japanese Joint Statistical Meeting, "Special Session Transnational Data Science Education and Research''
Nov, 2020: Session Chair and Management of Hikone Data Science 2020

Educational and Social Activities

Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2021: Lecturer and advisor at Toyota Dojo: Machine Learning Course
Mar, 2020 - Sep, 2020: Shiga University DS-MOOC Online Lecture Material: Data Science for University Students (Problem Solving)
Nov, 2020: Lecturer for Academic Program at Kawase Junior High School in Shiga Prefecture
Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2022: Data Science Seminar in Shiga University
Apr, 2021: Mukogawa Women's University Junior & Senior High School SSH Lecturer (In Japanese)
Nov, 2021: Summit of High School Annex | Research Workshop, Invited Speaker (In Japanese)
Mar, 2022: Book Translation of "Neural Networks and Deep Learning: A Textbook", Joint Translation
Sep, 2022: Shitennoji University (IBU, International Buddhist University) Smart Science Seminar Lecturer (In Japanese)