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. He currently serves as a survey scholar for Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings since 2022. 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, who is Taira-no-ason Shimada Tokiyoshi, Lord of Toutoumi-no-kami, and his eldest son is Hyougo-no-suke, whose residence was Kurihara Castle on the south coast of Awaji Island in the Seto-naikai Sea of Western Japan.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• • Swarm Robotics

  • Artificial Life

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Swarm Intelligence

  • Bio-inspired Computing

  • Modeling Biological Systems

  • Time-Sensitive Decision Making

 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

AWARDS

• 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).

INDEPENDENT EXPERT TESTIMONY    

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

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES

• • Senior Researcher (tenured) in the ICT Testbed Research and Development Promotion Center, Social Innovation Unit, Open Innovation Promotion Headquarters, NICT, Tokyo, Japan, July 2022 - present

  • Senior Researcher (tenured), with primary appointment in the ICT Testbed Research and Development Promotion Center, and with a joint appointment in the Strategic Program Produce Office, Social Innovation Unit, Open Innovation Promotion Headquarters, NICT, Tokyo, Japan, July 2016 - June 2022

  • Senior Researcher (tenured), Social-ICT Innovation Laboratory, Big Data Integration Research Center, Social Innovation Unit, Open Innovation Promotion Headquarters, NICT, Tokyo, Japan, April 2016 - June 2016

  • Senior Researcher, Keio University Research Institute at SFC, Tokyo, Japan, 2015 - 2016

  • Visiting Researcher, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, September 2012

  • Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, September 2012

  • Visiting Researcher, School of Computing, University of Salford, September 2012

  • Visiting Researcher, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, September 2012 (Hosted by Prof. Xin Yao)

  • Academic Visitor, Department of Computer Science, The University of Oxford (Hosted by Dr. Vasile Palade), September 2012

• 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

WORK EXPERIENCES

• 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

EDUCATION

• 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

RELIGION & PHILANTHROPY

• 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

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