Mitsuru Ishizuka

Japanese

Affiliation and Contact Addresses

Professor

Department of Creative Informatics (*1), and

    Department of Information and Communication Eng. (*2, additional)

Graduate School of Information Science and Technology

University of Tokyo

• Addresses and Phone/Fax
  (*1) Dai-Bld. 13F, 1-18-13, Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021, Japan
                      phone:+81-3-5209-3532     fax:+81-5209-3523(shared)
  (*2) 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan     <= (this is my postal mailing address)
                      phone: +81-3-5841-6347     fax: +81-3-5841-8570

• Email:  ishizuka |at| i.u-tokyo.ac.jp / ishizuka |at| ieee.org
  
  
• Hongo Office: Eng. Bld. 2, Room 111D2 (11th floor) -- Picture | Guide Map | Accesses to the Hongo Main Campus
• Akihabara Office (Dept. of Creative Infomatics): Akihabara Dai-Building 13th-floor -- Picture | Map

Brief Biography

• 1971: B.S. in Electronic Eng., Univ. of Tokyo
• 1976: Ph.D. in Electronic Eng., Univ. of Tokyo
• 1976: Researcher, NTT Yokosuka Laboratory
• 1978: Associate Professor, Institute of Industrial Science , Univ. of Tokyo
• 1980-1981: Visiting Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Elec. Eng., Purdue Univ.
• 1992: Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, Univ. of Tokyo
• 1992-Present: Professor, Dept. of Info. & Commun. Eng., Faculty of Engineering, Univ. of Tokyo
• 2001-2005, 2005(additional)--: Professor, Dept. of Info. & Commun. Eng., Graduate School of Information Science and Tech., Univ. of Tokyo
• 2005-Present: Professor, Dept. of Creative Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Tech., Univ. of Tokyo

Research Topics

Artificial Intelligence,

Web Intelligence & Semantic Computing on the Web, and

Multimodal Lifelike Agents and Media.

For details, please see

Ishizuka Lab's Page.

Publications

• Major English Papers
• Major Japanese Papers (Caution: this ia a Japanese page only for Japanese readers.)
  
  
• ( ScientificCommons -- Mitsuru Ishizuka <== produced by University of St.Gallen (Switzerland) )

Books (in English)

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  Helmut Prendinger and Mitsuru Ishizuka (eds.):
  Life-like Characters -- Tools, Affective Functions and Applications,
  Springer-Verlag (Cognitive Technologies series), 2004.
  (ISBN: 3-540-00867-5)
  ( Springer's Online Catalog)
  ( Online materials for book chapters at the VHML site)
  
  

Teaching

• Artificial Intelligence (undergraduate and graduate courses)
• Pattern Recognition/Classification (graduate course)
• Electric Circuits (undergraduate)
• {Computer Graphics (up to 1999, graduate course)}

Organizing/Organized Events

• 10th Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA-10), Sept. 20-22, 2010, Philadelphia, USA (program committee)
• 11th Pacific Rim Int'l Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2010), Aug. 30-Sept. 2, Daegu, Korea (plenary talk speaker)
• NAACL-HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Analysis and Generation of Emotion in Text, June 5, Los Angeles, CA, USA (program committee)
• IIEEJ Image Electronics and Visual Computing Workshop 2010 (IEVC2010), March 5-7, Nice, France (program committee)
• 9th Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA-09) Sept. 14-16, 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (program committee)
• 3rd IEEE Int'l Conf. on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2009) Sept. 14-16, 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA (a liaison in Asia)
• 8th Int'l Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2009) May 10-15, 2009, Budapest, Hungary (program committee)
• 1st Int'l Conf. on Advanced Intelligence (ICAI-08) Oct. 19-22, 2008, Beijing China (program committee)
• Int'l Workshop on Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games in conjunction with 8th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2008), Sept. 17-19, 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherland (program committee)
• 8th Int'l Conf on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA-08) Sept. 1-3, 2008, Tokyo (conference co-chair)
  
  
  "Intelligent Virtual Agents -- 8th IVA, Proceedings"
  (Helmut Prendinger, James Lester and Mitsuru Ishizuka (eds.)),
  LNAI 5208, Springer, 2008
  (ISBN 3-540-85482-1)
  ( Springer's Online Catalog )
  
• 2nd IEEE Int'l Conf. on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2008) Aug. 4-7, 2008, Santa Clara, CA (conference co-chair)
• The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computer Linguistics (ACL2008) June 15-20, 2008, Columbus, Ohio, USA (program committee)
• 7th Int'l Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008) May 12-16, 2008, Estoril, Portugal (program committee)
• Image Electronics and Visual Computing Workshop (IEVC 2007) Nov. 25-27, 2007, Cairns, Australia (program committee)
• 1st IEEE Int'l Conf. on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007) Sept. 17-19, 2007, Irvine, California, USA (program committee)
• 7th Int'l Working Conf. on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'07) Sept. 17-19, 2007, Paris, France (program committee)
• 6th Int'l Joint Conf. on Automomous Agents and Muitiagent Systems (AAMAS-07) May 14-118, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii (program committee)
• 12th Int'l Conf. on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Artificial Intelligence (IEA/AIE 2007), June 26-29, 2007, Kyoto, Japan (program committee)
• 5th IEEE Chapter Conf. on Advances in Cybernetic Systems (AICS2006) Sept. 7-8, 2006, Sheffield, UK (technical committee)
• 2nd Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP2006), Sept. 1-2, Univ. Cluj-Napoca, Romania (program committee)
• 6th Int'l Working Conf. on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'06) Aug. 21-23, 2006, Marina del Rey, CA, USA (program committee)
• 9th Pacific Rim Int'l Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-06) Aug. 7-11, 2006, Guilin, China (program committee & steering committee)
• 5th Int'l Joint Conf. on Automomous Agents and Muitiagent Systems (AAMAS-06) May 8-12, 2006, Hakodate, Japan (program committee)
• 5th Int'l Working Conf. on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'05) Sept. 12-14, 2005, Kos, Greece (program committee)
• WWW2005 Workshop on the Semantic Computing Initiative -- From Semantic Web to Semantic World -- , May 10, 2005, Makuhari, Japan (co-organizer)
• 18th Int'l Conf. on Industrial & Engineering Applications of AI & ES (IEA/AIE 2005) , June 2005, Bari, Italy (program committee)
• The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence 2002-2004: vice president, 2004-2006 president
• PRICAI (Pacific Rim Int'l Conf. on AI) 2004-- (steering committee)
• PRICAI-04 (8th Pacific Rim Int'l Conf. on AI), August 2004, Auckland, New Zealand (program committee)
• 17th Int'l Conf. on Industrial & Engineering Applications of AI & ES (IEA/AIE 2004) , May 2004, Ottawa, Canada (program committee)
• IVA'03 Int'l Working Conf. on Intelligent Virtual Agents , Sept. 15-17, 2003, Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany (program committee)
• AAMAS-2003 Workshop on Embodied Conversational Characters as Individuals, July 2003, Melbourne (program committee)
• PRICAI-02 (7th Pacific Rim Int'l Conf. on AI) Aug. 2002, Tokyo (program co-chair)
  
  
  "PRICAI 2002: Trends in Artificial Intelligence -- 7th PRICAI Proceedings"
  (Mitsuru Ishizuka, Abdul Sattar (eds.)),
  LNAI 2417, Springer, 2002
  (ISBN 3-540-44038-0)
  ( Springer's Online Catalog )
  
  
• PRICAI-02 Workshop on Lifelike Animated Agents: Tools, Affective Functions, and Applications Aug. 2002, Tokyo (program committee)
• AAMAS-2002 Workshop on Embodied Agents: Let Specify and Compare Them! July, 2002, Bologna, Italy (program committee)
• PRICAI2000 (6th Pacific Rim Int'l Conf. on AI), Aug. 2000, Melbourne, Australia (program committee)
• ECAI'98 Workshop on Combining AI and Graphics for the Interface of the Future , Aug. 24, 1998, Bringhton , UK (program committee)
• IJCAI-97 , Nagoya, August 23-29, 1997 (vice chair, local arrangement committee)
• IJCAI-97 Workshop on Intelligent Multimodal Systems , Nagoya, August 24, 1997 (Organizer) -- Online Proceedings available.

Related Web Pages

• Home Page (English) of Ishizuka Laboratory | (Japanese)
• Home Page of Graduate School of Information Science and Technology | (Japanese)
• Home Page (English) of Dept. of Information and Communication Eng. | (Japanese)
• ==> ( Application Information for Foreign Students ) | Information for Monbukagakusho Scholarship offered by the Japanese Government
• Home Page of School of Engineering | (Japanese)
• Home Page (English) of the Univ. of Tokyo | (Japanese)