Professor, Graduate School of Data Science and School of Data Science, Yokohama City University
Contact: hirotoda [at] acm.org
Research Area: Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Machine Learning
Research Topics: "Understanding people" and "understanding the environment surrounding people" for creating a world where everyone can get the information they want, when they want it, without being aware of it.
Profile
Hiroyuki Toda received B.E., and M.E. degrees in material science from Nagoya University in 1997, and 1999, respectively. He received Ph.D. degree in computer science from University of Tsukuba in 2007. He had been a research engineer in NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories, NTT corporation from August 1999 to March 2010. He had been a product manager of NTT Communications Corporation from April 2010 to March 2012. Since April 2012, he had been a senior research engineer and a research group leader in NTT Service Evolution Laboratories and NTT Human Informatics Laboratories, NTT corporation. Since September 2022, he has been a professor in school of data science, Yokohama City University. Since 2015, he also has been a part time lecturer of Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo.
Publications
Awards
DICOMO2023 Excellent Paper Award, October 2023.
ICWSM2023 Outatanding User Modling Paper Award. June 2023.
The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Telecom Interdisciplinary Research Award, Encouragement Award, March 2022.
DEIM2020 Best Paper Award, June 2020.
DEIM2019 Excellent Paper Award, July 2019.
DICOMO2019 Excellent Paper Award, July 2019.
DBSJ (Database Society of Japan) Young Researcher’s Achievement and Contribution Award, March 2019.
DICOMO2018 Excellent Paper Award, July 2018.
IEEE MDM (IEEE Int’l Conf. on Mobile Data Management) Honorable Mention Award, May 2017.
DICOMO2016 Excellent Paper Award, July 2016.
JSAI (the Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence) Best Paper Award, June 2016.
DEIM2016 Excellent Paper Award, June 2016.
SIG WI2 Excellent Research Award, November 2014.
WebDB2014 Best Paper Award, November, 2014.
FIT Funai Best Paper Award, September 2013.
DICOMO2013 Best Paper Award, August 2013.
DEIM2010 Excellent Interactive Award, March 2010.
WISE2008(9th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering) Best Paper Award, September 2008.
DEWS2007 Excellent Paper Award, July 2007.
DEWS2006 Excellent Presentation Award, June 2006.
DEIM: The Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management
DEWS: Data Engineering Workshop
DICOMO: Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, Mobile Symposium
Professional Activities
Member
IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan)
Special interest group of Database System(SIG-DBS)
Secretary (April 2010 - March 2013)
Organizing committee member (April 2013 - March 2017)
Special interest group of Information Fundamentals and Access Technologies(SIG-IFAT)
Organizing committee member (April 2010 - March 2014)
IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineering)
Technical Committee on Data Engineering
Technical Committee Member (May 2010 - June 2016)
Secretary (May 2019-June 2021)
Technical Committee on Life Intelligence and Office Information System
Vice Chair (June 2020-May 2022), Chair (June 2022-)
DBSJ (Database Society of Japan)
JSAI (The Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence)
Director (May 2020-June 2022)
ACM
Journal Editor
Information Processing Society of Japan Transactions on Database
Associate editor (April 2007 - March 2011, March 2017 -March 2021)
DBSJ Journal
Associate editor (2012-)
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems
Special Section on Data Engineering and Information management, Associate editor (2014), Editor (2015-2017, 2024)
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (Japanese Edition)
Special Section on Data Engineering and Information management, Associate editor (2013-2017), Editor (2024)
Special section on Log Data Usage Technology and Office Information System, Associate editor (2019), Editor-in-Chief(2021)
Program Committee member
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), PC member (2016,2017,2018,2019,2020)
IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), PC Member (2016,2017,2018)
IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), PC member (2017,2018)
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), PC member (2018,2019,2020,2023,2024), Senior PC member (2021)
The Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS), PC member (2018)
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), PC member (2018,2019,2020.2024), Senior PC member (2021)
IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), PC member (2018)
European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD), PC member (2020)
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems(NeurIPS), Reviewer(2023)
International Conference on Learning Representations(ICLR), Reviewer(2024)
Academic Conference Organizing Committee member
The 15th Int’l Conf. on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA)
Local Arrangement Committee Member
