CV: Hideyasu M. R. HIDE SASAKI, ESQ., PH.D.

Dr. Hideyasu M. R. "Hide" Sasaki is a computer scientist. He is Senior Researcher tenured with primary appointment in The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Sasaki served as a Formal Member at IEEE CIS ETTC and was the 2012-2015 Task Force Chair on Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Collective Systems. His research interests include artificial life, artificial intelligence, swarm robotics, swarm intelligence, modeling collective biological systems, and bio-inspired computing. Dr. Sasaki was named an IARIA Fellow in 2010. He practices law as Attorney-at-Law in New York, U.S. His bio is listed in the Marquis' Who's Who in the World. His maternal ancestor is one of ten lords at Awaji Island, Taira-no-ason Shimada Tokiyoshi, Lord of Toutoumi-no-kami, and his eldest son Hyougo-no-suke, whose residence was Kurihara Castle on the south coast of Awaji Island in the Seto-naikai Sea of Western Japan.

FUNDS

Recipient, NICT Fund Category Trial, 2017-2018
Associate-Recipient, National Science Research Fund of Japan for Fundamental Topics Category A, 2010 - 2013
Co-Recipient, Moritani Scholarship Fund, 2010 - 2014
Leading Recipient, National Science Research Fund of Japan for Young Scientists Category B, 2009 - 2012
Leading Recipient, National Science Research Fund of Japan for Young Scientists Category B, 2006 - 2009
Moritani Scholarship Fund, 2005 - 2008

4th Annual Excellence in Research Journal Award, from IRMA, for Int'l Journl of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE), 2010 (Second Co-Authored Paper)
IARIA Fellow, 2010
IARIA the 4th ICIW Best Paper Award of the Year, 2009
IARIA the 3rd ICIW/SLAECE Best Paper Award of the Year, 2008
Microsoft Intellectual Property Research Fund, 2005
Japan National Police Academy Best Paper Award of the Year, 1999

EXTERNAL DISSERTATION READER

Jie Wu: “Strategy in Robot Soccer" from Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava (VŠB-TUO), Czech Republic, 2012 (Primary Thesis Advisor, Prof. Vaclav Snasel).

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For a permanent residence applicant to the US Department of Homeland Security, June 2014.

Visiting Professor, School of Design Engineering, Brunel University (Hosted by Dr. Shengfeng Qin), August 2012
Visiting Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, VŠB Technological University of Ostrava (Hosted by Prof. Vaclav Snasel), May 2012 - August 2012
Honorary Research Associate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Christian College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) (Hosted by Prof. Ho-fung Leung), 2011 - 2012
Visiting Senior Researcher, Keio University Research Institute at SFC, Tokyo, Japan, 2010 - 2014
Associate Professor of Computer Science with tenure, Department of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, 2005 - 2015
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Department of Cyber Informatics, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 2003 - 2005
Research Assistant, Multimedia Database Lab., Keio University Research Institute at SFC, Tokyo, Japan, 2003 - 2003

Chief Executive Attorney, Law Office of Hideyasu Sasaki, Albaney, N.Y., USA, 2000 - present
Programmer, US Company listed in NASDAQ, 1997 - 1998
Policy Planning Staff, Policy Planning Office for the Minister of International Trade and Industry, Tokyo, Japan, 1994 - 1995
Legal Officer of General Management, Bureau of the Consumer Industries, Minitstry of International Trade and Industry, Tokyo, Japan, 1994 - 1994

Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences with the Highest Honor, Keio University (Media and Governance) , Japan, 2003 (Keio Engineering Society Fellow, Moritani Foundation Scholar)
M.S. in Cybernetic Knowledge Engineering with Honors, Keio University (Media and Governance) , Japan, 2001 (Mitsubishi Trust Yamamuro Memorial Scholar, Moritani Foundation Scholar)
Attorney-at-Law, Licensed to Practice as Lawyer, N.Y., USA, 1999
LL.M. University of Chicago Law School, USA, 1999 (Rotary Foundation Scholar, Law School Grantee)
LL.B., Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, Japan, 1994
B.A., the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan, 1992

Roman Catholic
The Brown Scapular Confraternity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Acolyte, Psalmist, Choir member at a local Catholic church
Paul P. Harris Fellow, Rotary Foundation
Multiple Paul P. Harris Fellow, Rotary Foundation
Fund Raise for and Contribution to the LL.M. Class of 1999 Dr. Robin A. Tuerks Memerial Fellowship at the University of Chicago Law School, 2008-2009