Kenji Mase (Biographies) (in Japanese)

(Short Biographies in text format in Japanese , in English )

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Education:

• 1992: PhD in Information Engineering , Nagoya University
  Thesis topic:" An advanced man-machine interface based on motion image processing (mase92a.ps.Z , in Japanese. Some figures are not included.)" ; Supervisor: Dr. Jun-ichiro Toriwaki (Toriwaki Lab.)
• 1981: M.Sc. in Information Engineering, Nagoya University
• 1979: B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Nagoya University

Work Experience:

• Since August 2009: Professor, Department of Systems and Social Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University.
• Apr.2009-July 2009: Information and Communication Planning Office, Information and Communications Headquarters, Nagoya University.
• Apr.2008-Mar.2009: Head, Information and Communication Planning Office, Information and Communication Headquarters, Nagoya University (additional post)
• Apr.2003-July 2009: Professor, Collaborative Laboratory for Department of Systems and Social Informatics, Graduated School of Information Science, Nagoya University , Nagoya, Japan (additional post)
• Aug.2002-Mar. 2009: Professor, Information Technology Center, Nagoya University , Nagoya, Japan
• Aug.2002-Mar.2006: Visiting Group Leader of ATR Media Information Science Laboratories. , Kyoto, Japan
• Oct. 2001-Jul. 2002: Group Leader of ATR Media Information Science Laboratories. , Kyoto, Japan
• March 1995-Sep 2001: Department head of ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories. , Kyoto, Japan
• 1992 - 1994: Manager at the International Liaison Office, NTT Information and Patent Center.
• 1988 - 1989: Visiting researcher at the Media Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge MA. (Vision and Modeling Group)
• 1981 - 1995(exclusive to the period above): Researcher at the NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. Japan(NTT)

Other work experience

• Oct.2002-: Visiting Researcher, ATR Intelligent Robotics Laboratories
• Apr.2002-Jul.2002: Invited Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, Osaka University
• Apr-Sep term, 1996-2001: Industrial Lecturer(part-time) in Information System Eng. at Graduate School, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University
• 2000-: Invited Professor(part time) Kanazawa Institute of Technology, at Graduate School
• 2001-: Part-time Lecturer (part time) Graduate School, School of Design & Architecture, Nagoya City University
• 1995: Industrial Lecturer, Graduate School, Faculty of Engineering, Yamagata Univ.

Seminars, Talks and Lectures:

• June 18, 2008: Invited Talk for, "Ubiquitous Experience Media for Computer Mediated Communication". The workshop of Frontiers of Information Technology, Dalian, China on June 18-20, 2008.
• Apr.9, 2005:<Plenary Talk for International Workshop on Realworld Multimedia Corpora in Mobile Environment (an IEEE ICDE 2005 workshop), "Interaction Corpus using Ubiquitous Experience Media", Tokyo.
• Mar.8-9, 2004: Invited Talk for International Symposium on Large-scale Knowledge Resources (LKR 2004), Interaction corpus and memory for experience sharing, Tokyo.
• Jan 16, 2004: Invited Talk 2004 Informatics Symposium, Experience Sharing by Interaction Media, Tokyo.
• Oct.24-26, 2002:Speaker for 2nd Symposium of Japan America Frontier of Engineering (JAFoE) , Interface Agent for Ubiquitous Computing Environment, Tokyo
• Oct.25, 2002: Invited Talk, NICOGRAPH, "Creativity Support Computing and Interactive Art", Nagoya.
• Sep.14, 2002: Invited Talk for International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA2002) , Intelligent Interfaces for Information Agents, Madrid, Spain
• Dec. 2001: Plenary Talk for Workshop on Young Virtual Reality 2001 (YVR2001), Toy Interfaces for Multimodal Interaction and Communication, Daejong, Korea,
• Jan. 2002: Invited Session at Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV2000,"The Weaved Reality: What Context-aware Interface Agents Bring About", Taipei
• Mar. 4-6, 1998: Invited Talk, Asynchronous Hierarchical Architecture for Controlling and Animating Interface Agents, Imagina'98, Monaco.
• Nov. 12, 1998: Seminar, Design and Application s of Interface Agent, 11th Japan-Germany Forum on Information Technology, Nagano.
• Dec. 7, 1996: Invited Talk, "SIGGRAPH'96", CG Workshop, Tokyo Museum of Picture.
• Dec. 3, 1996: Seminar, "Interface Agent", Leading edges of Intelligent Agent research, IEICE, Osaka.
• Jun, 1996: Invited Talk, Image processing for multimodal interface, Image Sensing Symposium, Yokohama.
• Mar.14-15, 1996: Workshop organizer, ATR MI&C Intelligent Agent Workshop , ATR.
• Oct. 19, 1995: Lecture, "Human Computer Interface", Chubu University.

Awards

• 2008 Best Paper Award by IEEE MMSP 2008, International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, (Mehrdad Panahpour Tehrani, Kenta Niwa, Norishige Fukushima, Yasushi Hirano, Toshiaki Fujii, Masayuki Tanimoto, Kazuya Takeda, Kenji Mase, Akio Ishikawa, Shigeyuki Sakazawa and Atsushi Koike, 9th October 2008). 　
• 2001 Best Paper Award by the 2001 WI/IAT Joint Conference (Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology), (Sumi and Mase, Oct.23, 2001, Maebashi, Japan)
• 1999 Best Paper Award by Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence,(Nishimoto, Mase and Nakatsu)
• 1999 Best Presentation Award by Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence, (Sumi, Mase)
• Best Annual Conference Paper Award by Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence, Dec. 1998 (Sumi et.al.).
• 1st Virtual Museum Award at Petrobras Exhibition of Virtual Reality (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), for the exhibit "Iamascope"(by Fels and Mase), June 6, 1998.
• Kenkyu Syorei Award by Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence, Dec. 1997 for the paper titled "Collaborative Concept Formation by Sharing Individual Viewpoints"(Presented at the JSAI AI Symposium by Sumi, Nishimoto and Mase)

Academic Activities (current)

• Editorial Board, International Journal on User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, (2004-)
• Advisory Board Member, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interface (ICMI, 2007.10-)
• Steering Committee member, The IEEE Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems (2006.10-)
• Fellow, IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) (2009-)
• A Board of Director, Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence, 2009-
• Member, IPSJ SIG on Course Management System (2005-)
• Program Committee member, IEEE 13^th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2009, Linz, 2009.9)
• Poster Session Chair, International Conference on Multimodal Interface and Workshop on Machine Learning for Multi-modal Interaction (ICMI+MLMI 2009, Boston, 2009.11)
• Program Committee member, ACM Multimedia 2009 workshop on Multimedia for Cooking and Eating Activities (CEA 2009, Beijing, 2009.10)

Members of IEEE Computer Society (Senior Member), ACM, IEICE (Fellow), IPSJ, JSAI, VRSJ, HIS and IIEEJ.

Academic Activities (past)

• Program Committee Member, Pervasive 2008, Sidney (2007-2008)
• Advisory Member, Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence, 2005- 2008
• Chair, IPSJ SIG on Course Management System (2005-2007)
• General Co-chair, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interface, (ICMI'07), Nagoya, Japan, Nov.12-15, 2007
• Program Committee Member, Pervasive 2007, Toronto (2006-2007)
• Program Committee Member, International Conference on Wearable Computing (ISWC 2007), Boston (2007)
• Treasurer, IPSJ Information Environment Group Committee(2005-2007)
• Committee Member, IPSJ Research Committee(2005-2007)
• Chair, CARPE 2006, ACM Multimedia 2006 workshop on Capture, Archival, and Retrieval of Personal Experience, Santa Barbara, CA 2007
• Chair, ubiPCMM2006, Ubicomp workshop, Orange County, CA 2007
• Program Committee Member, International Conference on Wearable Computing (ISWC 2006), Switzerland (2006)
• Program Committee Member, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interface (ICMI'06), Banff Canada (2006)
• Program Committee Member, CHI06 Workshop on Designing for Collective Remembering
• Program Co-chair, ACM International Conference on Wearable Computing (ISWC 2005), Osaka, Oct.18-21, 2005 (2004-2005)
• Program Co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interface, (ICMI'05), Trento, Italy, 3-7, Oct, 2005 (2004-2005)
• Guest editorial committee member, IPSJ special issue on interaction, IPSJ (2004-)
• Guest editorial committee member, Japan Society of AI, special issue, JSAI (2004-2005)
• Program Committee member, International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2005) (2004-2005)
• SIG Member, SIG on Human Interface, IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) (2001 - 2005)
• Chair, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Kansai Section (Japan) (2003-2004)
• Program Committee member, Ubicomp2004, Poster session (2004)
• Program Committee member, ACM Multimedia 2004 workshop CARPE2004(2004)
• Co-Chair, Pervasive Computing 2004 Workshop on Memory and Sharing of Experience, Vienna, April, 2004.
• Co-Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2004), Korea
• Program Committee Member, Ubicomp2003 Paper Session, Seattle (2003)
• Program Committee member, IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'2002), Pittsburgh
• A board member of directors, The Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan IIEEJ Homepage in Japanese (2001-2003)
• Secretary, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Kansai Section (Japan) (2000 - 2001)
• SIG Chair, SIG on Human Interface, IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) (1999 - 2001)
• SIG Vice-chair, SIG on Intelligent Information Media, IEICE of Japan (1998 - 2000)
• Symposium co-Vice-chair, IPSJ Interaction 2001 Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 5-6. 2001.
• Program Chair, IPSJ Interaction 2000 Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 29- Mar 1. 2000.
• Program committee member, 4th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face- and Gesture-Recognition (FG'2000) (Grenoble, Mar 2000).
• Guest vice-editor, Special Issue on Intelligent Information Media, transactions of D, IEICE (Inst. Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) of Japan (Oct. 1999).
• Program Chair, IPSJ Interaction 99 Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 3-4. 1999.
• Program co-chair, 3nd IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face- and Gesture-Recognition (Nara, Japan, April 14-16, 1998)
• Editorial committee member, transactions of D, IEICE (Inst. Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) of Japan (1995 - 1998).
• SIG committee member, SIG on Human Interface, IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) (1995 - 1999)
• SIG committee member and TC2 chief, SIG on Intelligent Information Media, IEICE (Information Processing Society of Japan) (1996 - 1998)
• General Chair of the Fourth Intelligent Information Media Symposium, (Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 7-8, 1998)
• Program committee member , 13th APCHI (Asia Pacific Computer Human Interaction), Kanagawa Japan.(July. 1998)
• Program committee member, The First Workshop on Embodied Conversational Characters, Tahoe City, CA, Oct. 12-14, 1998.
• Tutorial co-organizer, Life-like, Believable Communication Agents, SIGGRAPH'96, LA, CA(Aug. 1996)
• Editorial committee member, journal and transactions ISCIE(Inst. System, Control and Information Engineers) of Japan.(1995-1996)
• Program committee member on Computer Vision, 13th ICPR (International Conference on Pattern Recognition) (Aug. 1996)
• Program committee member, 2nd International Conference on Automatic Face- and Gesture-Recognition (Killington Va., Oct. 14-16, 1996)
• SIG committee member, SIG on Graphics and CAD, IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan)(1991-1995)

Languages:

Fluent in Japanese (mother tongue), English (daily conversation)

Non computer/communication related interests:

ski, tennis, dinghy, music (guitar), travel.

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last updated August 6, 2009

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