Mitsuru Ishizuka
English /
Japanese
Contact Address
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:   Professor, Dept. of Info. & Commun. Eng.,
Faculty of Engineering, Univ. of Tokyo
- 2001-2005, 2005(additional)--2012:   Professor, Dept. of Info. & Commun. Eng.,
Graduate School of Information Science and Tech., Univ. of Tokyo
- 2005-2012:   Professor, Dept. of Creative Informatics,
Graduate School of Information Science and Tech., Univ. of Tokyo
- 2010:   Vice Dean of the Graduate School of Information Science and Tech.
- 2013:   Professor, Dept. of Info. & Commun. Eng.,
Graduate School of Information Science and Tech., Univ. of Tokyo
- 2013.6-present   Professor Emeritus, Univ. of Tokyo
- 2014.1-2017.2   Professor(limited term), Department of Computer Science and
Engneering, School of Fundamental Science and Eng., Waseda University
               
Also,
Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST)
- 2015.12-2017.2   Affiliate Professor, National Institute of Informatics (NII)
- 2016.2-2018.12   Director, NII Cognitive Innovation Center (CIC)
- 2017.3-2018.12   Project Professor & Director, NII Cognitive Innovation Center (CIC)
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
Books (in English)
Teaching (until 2013)
- Artificial Intelligence (undergraduate and graduate courses)
- Pattern Recognition/Classification (graduate course)
- Electric Circuits (undergraduate)
- {Computer Graphics (up to 1999, graduate course)}
Organizing/Organized Events
- 6th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2012),
Sept. 19-21, Palermo, Italy (Conference Co-chair)
- 12th Pacific Rim Int'l Conf. on Artificial
Intelligence (PRICAI 2012), Sept. 3-7, 2012, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia (Conference Co-chair)
"PRICAI 2012: Trends in Artificial Intelligence"
(Patricia Anthony, Mitsuru Ishizuka and Dickson Lukose (eds.)),
LNAI 7458, Springer, 2012
(ISBN 978-3-642-32694-3)
(
Springer's Online Catalog )
- IEEE Int'l Conf. on Cognitive Informatics
& Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC 2012), Aug. 22-24, 2012, Kyoto (keynote speaker)
- 50th Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for Conputational Linguistics
(ACL 2012), July 8-14, 2012, Jeju, Korea (program committee)
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EACL 2012 Workshop on Semantic Analysis in Social Media, April 23, 2012, Avignon, France
(program committee)
- 11th Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2011),
Sept. 15-17, 2011, Reykjavick, Iceland (program committee)
- 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT 2011),
June 19-24, 2011, Portland, OR, USA (program committee)
- 2nd Int'l Workshop on Facial and Bodily Expressions
for Control and Adaptation of Games (ECAG'11) (in conjunction with IEEE Int'l Conf. on
Face and Gesture Recognition) March 21-25, 2011, Santa Barbara, USA (program committee)
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Japan-Austria Joint Workshop on ICT, Oct. 18-19, 2010, Tokyo
(Japan-side session organizer, and invited speaker)
- 4th Int'l Conf. on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2010),
Sept. 22-24, 2010, Pittsburgh, USA (special session chair)
- 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, 2010, Daegu, Korea (plenary talk speaker)
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NAACL-HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Analysis and Generation of Emotion in Text,
June 5, 2010, Los Angeles, CA, USA (program committee)
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IIEEJ Image Electronics and Visual Computing Workshop 2010 (IEVC2010),
March 5-7, 2010, 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)
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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)
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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)
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Image Electronics and Visual Computing Workshop (IEVC 2007)
Nov. 25-27, 2007, Cairns, Australia (program committee)
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1st IEEE Int'l Conf. on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007)
Sept. 17-19, 2007, Irvine, California, USA (program committee)
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7th Int'l Working Conf. on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'07)
Sept. 17-19, 2007, Paris, France (program committee)
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6th Int'l Joint Conf. on Automomous Agents and Muitiagent Systems
(AAMAS-07) May 14-118, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii (program committee)
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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)
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5th IEEE Chapter Conf. on Advances in Cybernetic Systems (AICS2006)
Sept. 7-8, 2006, Sheffield, UK (technical committee)
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2nd Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing
(ICCP2006), Sept. 1-2, Univ. Cluj-Napoca, Romania (program committee)
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6th Int'l Working Conf. on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'06)
Aug. 21-23, 2006, Marina del Rey, CA, USA (program committee)
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9th Pacific Rim Int'l Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-06)
Aug. 7-11, 2006, Guilin, China (program committee & steering committee)
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5th Int'l Joint Conf. on Automomous Agents and Muitiagent Systems
(AAMAS-06) May 8-12, 2006, Hakodate, Japan (program committee)
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5th Int'l Working Conf. on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'05)
Sept. 12-14, 2005, Kos, Greece (program committee)
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WWW2005 Workshop on the Semantic Computing Initiative --
From Semantic Web to Semantic World -- , May 10, 2005,
Makuhari, Japan (co-organizer)
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18th Int'l Conf. on Industrial & Engineering Applications of AI & ES
(IEA/AIE 2005) , June 2005, Bari, Italy (program committee)
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The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
2002-2004: vice president, 2004-2006 president
- PRICAI (Pacific Rim Int'l
Conf. on AI) 2004-- (steering committee)
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PRICAI-04 (8th Pacific Rim Int'l Conf. on AI), August 2004,
Auckland, New Zealand (program committee)
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17th Int'l Conf. on Industrial & Engineering Applications of AI & ES
(IEA/AIE 2004) , May 2004, Ottawa, Canada (program committee)
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IVA'03 Int'l Working Conf. on Intelligent Virtual Agents ,
Sept. 15-17, 2003, Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany (program committee)
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AAMAS-2003 Workshop on Embodied Conversational Characters as
Individuals,
July 2003, Melbourne (program committee)
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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 )
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PRICAI-02 Workshop on Lifelike Animated Agents:
Tools, Affective Functions, and Applications
Aug. 2002, Tokyo (program committee)
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AAMAS-2002 Workshop on Embodied Agents: Let Specify and Compare Them!
July, 2002, Bologna, Italy (program committee)
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PRICAI2000 (6th Pacific Rim Int'l Conf. on AI),
Aug. 2000, Melbourne, Australia (program committee)
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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.
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