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Kotaro Nakayama

Assistant (Lecturer) professor, Center for Knowledge Structuring, the University of Tokyo.

Kotaro Nakayama received his Ph. D. from Osaka University, Japan in 2007. While he is a bachelor student, he founded a software development company named "Kansai Information Institute" and he managed the company as the CEO and a director three years. His research areas are mainly AI and the WWW. Especially, he is interested in knowledge extraction from huge scale WWW contents. Recently, his interest includes Wikipedia mining and brain science.

He has been selected as a representative of Japan in Imagine Cup, a programming contest sponsored by Microsoft corp., world final three times after winning the Japan regionals.

Short Vita

Oct. 2000 - Sep. 2003 President and director of "Kansai information institue".
Apr. 2002 - Mar. 2004 Lecturer of "Internet architecture" at Doshisha woman colledge
Mar. 2007 Ph.D. of information science from Osaka University.
Apr. 2007 - Mar. 2008 Postdoctoral fellow, Osaka University
Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2012 Assistant Prof, The University of Tokyo
Apr. 2012 - Assitant Prof (Lecturer Prof), The University of Tokyo

Prizes

Oct. 2002 The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Japan regional: Advanced to Asia regional
Oct. 2002 The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Japan regional: Asia regional participation certificated.
Mar. 2004 The Imagine Cup, a programming contest sponsored by Microsoft, Software Development Category: Japan regional 1st prize.
July. 2004 The Imagine Cup World Final: Participation certificated as the Japan representative.
Mar. 2005 The Imagine Cup, Software Development Category: Japan regional 1st prize.
Sep. 2005 The Imagine Cup World Final: Best 8.
Mar. 2006 The Imagine Cup, Software Development Category: Japan regional 1st prize.
July. 2006 The Imagine Cup World Final: Best 6, finalist certificated.
Aug. 2007 Yamashita Research Prize from IPSJ (Information Processing Soceity of Japan)
Sep. 2007 Innovation Japan, Microsoft Innovation Research Award Academic category
Nov. 2007 Computer Science Area Research Award from IPSJ (Information Processing Soceity of Japan)
Nov. 2010 The Best Paper Award in WebDB Forum
Nov. 2011 The Best Paper Award DBSJ 2010
Mar. 2012 Yamashita Research Prize from IPSJ (Information Processing Soceity of Japan)
Others 7 prizes on business plan contests and 1 prize on technology idea contest.

Publications

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