https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2821-0857
2025 Activities:
THE IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2025) (Reviewer)
2024 Activities:
Evolutionary Intelligence (Springer Nature) (Journal Reviewer)
THE IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2024) (Reviewer)
THE Global Academic Reputation Survey 2025 (Reviewer)
2023 Activities:
The 14th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA 2023), Springer (Oral Presentation).
THE Global Academic Reputation Survey 2024 (Reviewer)
2022 Activities:
The 13th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA 2022), Springer (Oral Presentation).
Applied Artificial Intelligence, Taylor & Francis (Research Article, Journal)
THE Global Academic Reputation Survey 2023 (Reviewer)
2021 Activities:
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (Reviewer)
Orlando, Florida, USA held online (Reviewer)
2020 Activities:
The 11th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA 2020) held online December 16-18 (PC Co-Chair)
2019 Activities:
Annual Conference on Artificial Life (Alife 2019)
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Oral presentation, Session chair)
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2019)
Wellington, NZ (Oral presentation)
Swarm and Evolutionary Computation Journal (Reviewer)
2018 Activities:
Bengaluru, India
(PC Member, Reviewer, Oral presentation)
Miyazaki, Japan (Oral presentation)
(Reviewer)
2017 Activities:
Czech Science Foundation (Project Reviewer)
Hawaii, USA
(SIS SS9 PC member, Reviewer, Oral presentation)
FSDM 3rd INTL CONF Fuzzy Systems & Data Mining
(Invited Speaker)
2016 Activities:
IEEE ICDE Health Data Management and Mining (HDMM) Workshop
(Presentation)
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EDUCATION & QUALIFICATION:
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 2003
M.S. in Computer Science, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 2001
Attorney and Counselor at Law, New York State Bar, USA, 1999
LL.M., University of Chicago Law School, IL, USA, 1999
LL.B., University of Tokyo School of Law, Tokyo, Japan, 1994
B.A. Diploma, University of Tokyo College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, 1992
AFFILIATE:
Member of IEEE, 2015 - 20
Member of Catholic Lawyers, 2012 - present
The Brown Scapular Confraternity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 2013 - present
Multiple Paul P. Harris Fellow
HONOR:
IARIA Fellow, 2010
ACADEMIA (not exhaustively listed):
Senior Research Scientist (tenured), NICT, Tokyo, Japan, 2016 - present
Senior Researcher, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 2015 - 16
Academic Visitor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK, 2012
Visiting Professor, School of Design Engineering, Brunel University, Greater London, UK, 2012
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Electronic Eng. and Computer Science, VŠB Technological University of Ostrava, Czechia (Czech Republic), 2012
Honorary Research Associate, Christian College, Dept. of Computer Science and Eng., Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), 2011 - 12
Associate Professor of Computer Science with tenure, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, 2005 - 15
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 2003-05
ACTIVITY:
The IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2025), Reviewer, 2025.
Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, Survey Scholar, 2022, 2023, 2024.
Evolutionary Intelligence (Springer Nature), Journal Reviewer, June 2024.
THE IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2024), Reviewer, 2024.
Chair, Task Force on Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Collective Systems at IEEE CIS ETTC, 2012 - 15
Formal Member, IEEE CIS ETTC, 2013 - 15
PC Co-Chair, the 11th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA 2020), held online, December 16-18, 2020
ARTICLES:
Emulating Heterogeneity of Individuals and Visualizing Its Influence on Ant Swarm Migration, Applied Artificial Intelligence, 36(1):3426-47, e2138120, December 1, 2022, Taylor & Francis (accepted on October 13, 2022) online first publication (November 10, 2022) [2022 IF = 2.8 (2023 IF = 2.9), 2022 Acceptance Rate = 38% (2023 Acceptance Rate = 15%)]
Modeling Ant Nest Relocation at Low Active Ratio by Particle Swarm Optimization, the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2019), Wellington, New Zealand, June 10-13, 2019, pp. 594 - 603.
Trail Traffic Flow Prediction by Contact Frequency among Individual Ants, Swarm Intelligence, 7 (4): 307-26, December 1, 2013, Springer online first publication (July 11th 2013) [2021 IF = 3.727]
PROJECTS:
Heterogeneous design of artificial ant swarm migration
Computational modeling of biological swarm behavior
Probabilistic logic of task analysis
RESEARCH AREAS & INTERESTS:
Software-based swarm behavior
Artificial insect ecology
Computational Modeling
Modeling and simulation
Probabilistic logic
Biological system modeling
Decision Making
Time-sensitive decision making
Optimization Algorithms
Population-based optimization