Profile
Born in November 1968 and raised deep in the countryside of Gifu Prefecture, where I cycled all the way to high school (7 km, not a single traffic light). I attended Ono Elementary School (grades 1–4) and Ono-Kita Elementary School (grades 5–6) in the town of Ono, Ono Junior High School, and Gifu Prefectural Motosu High School (now Motosu Shoyo High School), and then entered the Department of Information Engineering, School of Engineering, Nagoya University.
Career
- Mar. 1996
- Ph.D. in Engineering, Department of Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University
Dissertation: Features for line-pattern analysis and their application to computer-aided diagnosis of X-ray images - Apr. 1996
- Research Associate, Department of Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Utsunomiya University
- Apr. 2001
- Associate Professor, Department of Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University
- Apr. 2003
- Associate Professor, Department of Media Science, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University
- Apr. 2004
- Professor, Department of Life System Science and Technology, School of Life System Science and Technology, Chukyo University
- Oct. 2006
- Designated Professor (part-time), Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University (concurrently, until Mar. 2010)
- Apr. 2008
- Professor, Department of Information Systems Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology, Chukyo University
- Apr. 2013
- Professor, Department of Information Engineering, School of Engineering, Chukyo University (present)
Professional Societies
- The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
- IEEE
- Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology (JAMIT)
- Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering (JSMBE)
- Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
Awards
Paper Award of the Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology, Excellent Paper Award at MIRU2004, the Tateno Award of the Japan Society of Computer Aided Diagnosis of Medical Images, and others. Awards at international conferences are listed under Awards on the Publications page.
Off Duty
Sports: In university I loved tennis and skiing. Given my age and the extra weight, I no longer push it. These days I love golf.
Baseball: Head of the university's Junko Baseball club since 2014. A Yomiuri Giants fan who also goes to the Tokyo Dome (just once so far).
Music: Mostly ska and Japanese rock, as a listener, of course. The biggest thrills of the past few years: ELLEGARDEN's comeback, and their joint performance with Straightener on an NHK Nagoya program. I also enter the ticket lotteries for Yabai T-Shirts Yasan, HEY-SMITH, SHANK, MAYSON's PARTY and the like. If you know a good band, please let me know.
