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プロフィール
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Career
CAREER
1975 | Born in Sakaide City, Kagawa Prefecture |
March, 1993 | Graduated from Marugame High School in Kagawa Prefecture |
March, 1997 | Graduated from Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo |
March, 2002 | Completed Doctoral program in Electronic and Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. Doctor of Engineering |
April, 2002 | Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) |
August, 2005 | Visiting Researcher, CSLI, Stanford University Visiting Researcher |
October, 2007 | Associate Professor, Department of Technology Management Strategy, Center for Structuring Knowledge, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo |
April, 2014 | Project Associate Professor, Department of Technology Management Strategy, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Co-Chair of the Global Consumer Intelligence Endowed Chair) |
April, 2019 | Professor, Artificial Engineering Research Center, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo Professor, Department of Technology Management Strategy, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo |
June, 2017 | Chairman, Japan Deep Learning Association |
June, 2019 | Outside director, Softbank Group Corporation |
June, 2020 | Director, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence |
2021 | Expert Member, Council for achieving new capitalism |
2023 | Director, Department of Technology Management and Strategy / Chair, AI strategy conference |
- Other positions include Visiting Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics (NII) (2010-2014), Visiting Associate Professor, National University of Singapore (NUS) (2014-2018), and Director, Planning Team, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) (2015-2018)
Awards
AWARDS
2024 "Information and Communication Month" Commendation by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, Yutaka Matsuo, 2024 |
2022 "Dean's Award of the Graduate School of Engineering" (Special Section), The University of Tokyo, Yutaka Matsuo, 2023 |
The ACM Web Conference 2022: Test of Time Award, Takeshi Sakaki, Makoto Okazaki and Yutaka Matsuo, Earthquake shakes Twitter users: Real-time event detection by social sensors, 2022 |
1st JTS Academic Award, Yutaka Matsuo, JAPAN TREASURE SUMMIT (President: Hiroshi Komiyama), 2019 |
2018 IPSJ Paper Award, Masahiro Suzuki and Yutaka Matsuo, "A Deep Generative Model for Bidirectional Generation between Different Modalities," 2019 |
Suit of the Year 2018, Innovation Category, Yutaka Matsuo, for his bold efforts to reach out to the real world beyond the academic realm, 2018 |
Kagawa Prefecture, Kagawawa 21st Century Grand Prize, Yutaka Matsuo, for his work in the field of artificial intelligence, 2018 |
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award for University Ventures 2018, PKSHA TECHONOLOGY Corporation, Yutaka Matsuo (Support University), The University of Tokyo, 2018 |
Changemaker of the Year 2016, Yutaka Matsuo, for activities in the field of artificial intelligence and web engineering, 2016 |
Business Book Award, Special Jury Prize, "Does Artificial Intelligence Surpass Humans?" by Yutaka Matsuo (Kadokawa), 2016 |
Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Award, Japan Office Furniture Association, "Does Artificial Intelligence Surpass Humans?" by Yutaka Matsuo (Kadokawa), 2016 |
IT Engineer Book Award 2016 Grand Prize in Business Book Category, "Does Artificial Intelligence Surpass Humans?" by Yutaka Matsuo (Kadokawa), 2016 |
2015 Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Research Meeting Excellence Award, "A Study on a Market Manipulation Detection Method Using Anomaly Detection of User Behavior on a Stock Board," Kunihiro Miyazaki and Yutaka Matsuo, 2016 |
2015 Okawa Publishing Award, Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications, "Does Artificial Intelligence Surpass Humans?" by Yutaka Matsuo (Kadokawa), 2015 |
Nikkei Business, "100 People Who Will Create the Next Generation, (次世代を創る100人)" December 28, 201 |
2015 Okawa Publishing Award, Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications, "Does Artificial Intelligence Surpass Humans? (人工知能は人間を超えるか)" by Yutaka Matsuo (Kadokawa), 2015 |
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, "Outstanding Contributions to Science and Technology 2015 (Nice Step Researchers)," Yutaka Matsuo, 2015 |
RAKUTEN TECHNOLOGY AWARD 2015, For Thought Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, Yutaka Matsuo, 2015 |
The 12th (2013) Docomo Mobile Science Award, Social Science Category, Yutaka Matsuo, "Research on Social Observation and Its Application by Web Mining", 2014 |
AERA "100 People Who Will Break Through Japan," December 29, 2014/January 5, 2014 issue. |
Yutaka Matsuo, Distinguished Service Award, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2013, for contributions as Editor-in-Chief, 2014 |
AERA "100 People Who Will Rebuild Japan", January 2 and 9, 2012 issue |
2011 Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence In-situ Innovation Award, "Research, Development, and Practical Application of Person Retrieval System," Yutaka Matsuo, Keisuke Ishida, Hironori Tomobe, Mizuki Oka, Agutibayar Amarsana, Masahiro Hamasaki, Junichiro Mori, Danushka Bollegala, Kazuki Omukai, Katsumori Matsushima, 2012 |
2007 IPSJ Makoto Nagao Special Award, Yutaka Matsuo, "A Study on Extraction of Social Networks by Web Mining", 2008 |
2006 Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence 20th Anniversary Project Award, "Career Design Ability Development Project for Young AI Researchers: The Way to a Happy Research Life," Hiroshi Yamakawa, Ryutaro Ichise, Masayuki Ota, Yoshikiyo Kato, Yuko Shoji, and Yutaka Matsuo, 2007 |
2002 Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Paper Award, "An Algorithm for Extracting Keywords from Documents Based on Statistical Information of Word Co-occurrence," Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, VOL.17, NO.3, PP.213-227, 2002 |
contribution
CONTRIBUTION
Expert, "Expert Council for Realization of Japan's 'Revitalization of Vitality'", Cabinet Office, 2024 |
Chairman, AI Strategy Council, Cabinet Office, 2023- |
Prime Minister's Office, Expert members of the "Council for the Realization of New Capitalism," 2021 |
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Member of "Study Council for Institutional Revision Toward Realization of World-Class Research Universities," 2021 |
Cabinet Office, Components of the "Digital Market Competition Council," 2019 |
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Member of the Working Group on Future Innovation, 2019 |
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Member of the Study Group on the Age of Content, 2019 |
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Public-Private Partnership Team for the Tokyo Bay Area Vision, Chair of the City of Cutting-Edge Technology Working Group, 2018 |
Cabinet Office, Member of the Study Council on Principles for a Human-Centered AI Society, 2018 |
Cabinet Secretariat, Evaluation Committee for the Project for University Promotion and Youth Employment Creation in the Region, Evaluation Committee Member, 2018 |
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Evaluation Committee Member, Food Industry Innovation Promotion Project, 2018 |
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Member of the "IOT New Era Future Planning Study Committee, SWG for the Elderly," 2018 |
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Advisory Member of "Research and Development of Deep Learning Technology for Advanced Multilingual Speech Translation," Chair, 2018 |
Information-technology Promotion Agency, Chair, Committee for Promotion of AI Social Implementation, 2018 |
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Advisor to the Headquarters for Data Health Reform, 2018 |
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Member of the Consortium for Accelerating AI Development in the Health and Medical Fields, 2018 |
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Member of the Advisory Council for the Promotion of AI Application in the Health and Medical Care Sector, 2017 |
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Member of "AI Network Society Promotion Council", 2017-2018 |
Information-technology Promotion Agency, Member of the Editorial Board of the White Paper on AI, 2017-2018 |
Cabinet Office, Study Group on Basic Measures for an Aging Society, Member, 2017 |
Member of the Executive Committee of the Basic Plan for the Promotion of Public-Private Data Utilization, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, 2017 |
Prime Minister's Residence Japan Economic Regeneration Headquarters, Member of the "4th Industrial Revolution Human Resource Development Promotion Meeting," 2017 |
Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, "Smart SME Study Group," Member, 2017 |
Fair Trade Commission, Study Group on Data and Competition Policy, Member, 2017 |
Kagawa Prefecture, "Kagawa Prefecture Industrial Activation Advisor," 2017-. |
Ministry of Finance, Member of the "Corporate Investment Strategy Study Group," Financial Policy Research Institute, 2016-2017 |
Financial Services Agency, Member of the Expert Committee on FinTech Ventures, 2016 |
Member of the Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence and Human Society, Cabinet Office, Japan, 2016-2017 |
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Member of the "Study Team for the Scoring Method of the Writing Type of the Academic Achievement Test for University Applicants (tentative name)," 2016-2017 |
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Evaluation Member of the Committee on Evaluation in Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2016-2017 |
Member, Institute for 21st Century Policy Research, Japan Business Federation, 2016-2018 |
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Member of "ICT Intelligentization Impact Assessment Study Council", 2016-2017 |
Advisor, Subcommittee on Post-2020 Economic and Fiscal Concept, Special Mission Committee on Fiscal Reconstruction, Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, 2016 |
IOT Promotion Consortium, Steering Committee Member, 2015-2018 |
Member, New Industry Structure Subcommittee, Industrial Structure Council, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, 2015-2018 |
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, "The Future of Work 2035: For Each and Every One to Shine," Roundtable Meeting Constituent, 2015-2016 |
Member, AI and Brain Research Working Group, Information and Communications Council, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, 2015-2018 |
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Member of "Study Group for Industrial Innovation by AI and Big Data," 2015 |
Member of Study Group on Credit Card Industry and Big Data, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, 2015 |
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Member of "Study Group on Future Vision of ICT with Accelerating Intelligence," 2015 |
Member of "Study Group on the Way of Promotion of Fundamental Technologies," Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, 2015 |
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Member of the Committee for the Examination of the Vision for New Policies in the Field of Information, 2015 |
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Member, Subcommittee on Information Economy, Subcommittee on Commerce, Distribution, and Information, Industrial Structure Council, 2014-2018 |
Member of Structuring Team, COI STREAM, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 2013 |
Member, Expert Committee of IT Convergence Forum, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), 2012-2013 |
Member, Advisory Committee on Consumer Intelligence, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, 2012-2013 |
National Strategy Office, Member of Frontier of Wisdom Subcommittee, National Strategy Council, 2012 |
Society activities
SOCIETY ACTIVITIES
In Japan, I am active mainly in the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI). Internationally, I have presented papers mainly at the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), etc. I am also a program committee member of WWW. In addition, I am collaborating with several companies in Japan on joint research projects focusing on data analysis.
President, Japan Deep Learning Association, June 2017-Present |
Chair, Examination Committee, Japan Deep Learning Association, 2017-present |
Director, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence June 2020 - June 2022 |
The Society for Artificial Intelligence Chair of the Ethics Committee June 2014 - June 2018 |
Editorial Board of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Editor-in-Chief and Director, June 2012 - June 2014 |
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Board, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, June 2010 - June 2012 |
Editorial Board Member, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, June 2004-June 2010 |
Director, Information Processing Society of Japan June 2020 - June 2022 |
Fellow, Information Processing Society of Japan Apr. 2022 |
New Generation Computing, Editor-in-chief, 2023-present |
New Generation Computing, Vice Editor-in-chief, 2017-2022 |
New Generation Computing, Area Editor，2013-2017 |
Vice President and Director, Whole Brain Architecture Initiative, NPO, 2016-present |
Senior Program Committee, 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2018), February 2018 |
Program Committee, Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2017), December 2017 |
Senior Program Committee, 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2017), February 2017 |
Track chair (Web mining track), 25th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2016), April 2016 |
Program committee, 24th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2015), May 2015 |
Track chair (Web mining track), 23th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2014), April 2014 |
Program committee, 22th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2013), April 2013 |
Program committee, 21th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012), April 2012 |
Program committee, 20th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2011), March 2011 |
Program committee, 19th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010), May 2010 |
Program committee, 18th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2009), May 2009 |
Program committee, 17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), May 2008 |
Program committee, 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2014), Feb 2014 |
Program committee, 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2013), Feb 2013 |
Program committee, 4th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2012), Feb 2012 |
Program committee, 3rd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2011), Feb 2011 |
Program committee, 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2010), June 2010 |
Program committee, 1st ICDM2009 Workshop Proposal for Large-scale Data Mining: Theory and Applications (LDM-TA), December 2009 |
Program committee, 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009), December 2009 |
Program committee, 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008), December 2008 |
Program committee, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom-09), August 2009 |
Program committee, The 2014 International Conference on Advanced in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM2014), August 2014 |
Program committee, The 2013 International Conference on Advanced in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM2013), August 2013 |
Program committee, The 2011 International Conference on Advanced in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM2011), August 2011 |
Program committee, The 2009 International Conference on Advanced in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM2009), July 2009 |
Program committee, 2008 International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'08), December 2008 |
Program committee, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2008), March 2008 |
Program committee, 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2008), May 2007 |
Program committee, 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), November 2007 |
Program committee, 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2007), May 2007 |
Representative of the Preparatory Committee for the 1st Web Conference, 2009 |
Workshop on Web-generated Relational Structures and Network Analysis (Social Informatics Fair 2005, Japan Society for Socio-Informatics Studies), Representative, September 2005. |
Representative of the 1st to 3rd BLOG Encouragement Meeting (Artificial Intelligence Society, Tranquist), 2003-2004. |
Research grant
RESEARCH GRANT
NEDO, "Establishment of Design and Operation Infrastructure for Competitive Next-Generation Production Systems Using AI Technology as a Platform" (2019 - 2024), Research subcontractor (Representative: Jun Ohta) |
Research in the New Academic Field "Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science" (2016-2021), Planning Group Leader (Representative: Kenji Doya) |
AMED Research Project for ICT Infrastructure for Clinical Research, "Research and Development of Medical Intelligence Information System Infrastructure" (2013-2019), Research supervisor (Principal Investigator: Kazuhiko Ooe) |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Young Scientists A, "Theoretical Construction of Gamification by Analyzing Social Media on the Web" (2013-2018), Principal Investigator |
JST PRESTO "Knowledge Creation and Information Society", "Structuring and Knowledge of Web Information Using Network Theory and Machine Learning" (2008-2010), Principal Investigator |
NEDO Industrial Technology Research Grant Program (Grant for Young Scientists), "Research and Development of Web Editing Engine Using Web Mining and Semantic Web Technology" (2008-2011), Principal Investigator |
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Strategic Information and Communications Research and Development Promotion Program, "Research on User Modeling from Location History in Buildings" (FY2003-2005), Principal Investigator |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research B, "Extraction of Researcher Network from the Web" (FY2005-2007), PI (FY2005; replaced in FY2006 due to travel) PI (FY 2005, replaced in FY 2006 due to travel to Japan) |
Overseas Special Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Japanese Studies (2005 - 2007) |
NEDO Industrial Technology Research Grant Program, "Research on Information Provision Considering People's Social Relationships" (2005-2007), Research supervisor (Representative: Takuichi Nishimura) |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, KAKENHI A, "Web Intelligence based on Text Processing" (2004-2006), Research supervisor (Principal investigator: Mitsuru Ishizuka) (2004-2005) |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Kiban Kenkyu A, "Research on Supporting Creative Activities Using Social Networks" (FY2005-2007), Research supervisor (Principal Investigator: Hideaki Takeda) (FY2005) |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), "Development of Decision Support System for Energy Service Business Using Artificial Market" (2004-2006), Research supervisor (Principal Investigator: Kiyoshi Izumi) (2004-2005) |
CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Life Information Technology for Advanced Media Society "Human-centered Intelligent Information Access Technology" (2000-2004), Research Member (Representative: Koichi Hashida) |
IPA 2004 Exploratory Software Creation Project "Development of Access Control Environment for Information Sharing Considering Human Social Network", Development member (Representative: Junichiro Mori) |
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