Special Appointment Professor
College of Information Science and Engineering
Ritsumeikan University
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Address: 1-1-1 Noji-Higashi, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
Degrees
Bachelor of Engineering from Ritsumeikan University in 1978
Master of Engineering from Ritsumeikan University in 1980
Doctor of Engineering from Ritsumeikan University in 1983
Career
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, College of Science and Enigineering, Ritsumeikan University, 1983-1986
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Science and Enigineering, Ritsumeikan University, 1987-1992
Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Science and Enigineering, Ritsumeikan University, 1993
Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, College of Science and Enigineering, Ritsumeikan University, 1994-1987
Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, College of Science and Enigineering, Ritsumeikan University, 1998-2003
Professor, Dept. of Human and Computer Intelligence, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, 2004-2016
Principal, Ritsumeikan Moriyama Junior and Senior High School, 2013-2016
Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, 2017-2020
Special Appointment Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, 2021-present
Visiting Scholar of University of California at Berkeley, USA in Sep/1990-Mar/1991
Visiting Scholar of University of British Columbia, Canada in Sep/1996-Mar/1997
Visiting Professor of Xiangtan Polytechnic University, China in Sep/2000-Aug/2003
Visiting Professor of Hunan Polytechnic University, China in Sep/2000-Aug/2005
General Manager of Division of Student Activity Program, The Consortium of Universities in Kyoto 2008-2011
Special Research Associate of WBS Center, Waseda University in Apr/2011-Mar/2016
Awards
Sawaragi Memorial Award for Encouragement in 1987, The Institute of Systems,Control and Information Engineers of Japan
Mitsuhiko Watanabe Invention Award for Outstanding Performance in 2006, Ritsumeikan University
Paper Award for Technology in 2007, Japan Society of Kansei Engineering
Excellent Paper Award in 2007, The International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research 2007
Patents
"Program and scheduling equipments" Patent number: 4467286 (March 5, 2010)
"Scheduling equipments, computer programming, and computer-readable storage media" Patent number: 5737668 (May 1, 2015)
Recent Works