Yutaka Matsuo is an associate professor at Institute of Engineering Innovation, the University of Tokyo. He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1997, 1999, and 2002 (supervised by Prof. Ishizuka). He joined National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) from 2002 to 2007. His major is web mining (especially on social network mining), text processing, and semantic web in the context of artificial intelligence research.

He is one of the prominent young researchers in the information technology field in Japan. He wrote more than 30+ journal papers in Japanese for the past seven years besides 60+ international conference papers. He received the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) Best Paper Award in 2002, JSAI Anniversary Project Award in 2006, and Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Nagao Special Researcher Award in 2008. He joined the editorial committee of JSAI from 2004, and the program committee at the JSAI annual conferences (JSAI2004, JSAI2005, and JSAI2006). He got Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad in 2005 and stayed for two years at Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University. After coming back to Japan, he joined the faculty of the University of Tokyo in 2007.

He is a PC member of several conferences and workshops.

• Program committee, 18th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2009), April 2009
• Program committee, 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008), Dec 2008
• Program committee, The 2008 International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'08), Dec 2008
• Program committee, 17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), April 2008
• Program committee, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2008), March 2008
• Program committee, Sixth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), November 2007
• Program committee, 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2007), May 2007
• Program committee, Workshop on Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge, at 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), May 2007
• Program committee, First International Workshop on Web Mining for E-commerce and E-services (WMEE2007), at IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'07), July 2007
• Program committee, Workshop on Emergent Intelligence on Networked Agents (WEIN' 07), at Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007), May 2007
• Program committee, Workshop on Emergent Intelligence on Networked Agents (WEIN' 06), at Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006), May 2006
• Program committee, First International Workshop on Agent Network Dynamics and Intelligence(ANDI05), at 19th Annual Conference of JSAI (JSAI2005), June 2005
• Co-organizer, Third International Workshop on Chance Discovery, at 10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction (HCI2003), June, 2003
• Co-organizer, Chance Discovery invited session, at Sixth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES2002), September, 2002

Yutaka Matsuo
matsuo@biz-model.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Institute of Engineering Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
2-11-6 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656
Tel: +81-3-5841-6535, Fax: +81-3-3814-6635