Curriculum Vitae for Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Curriculum Vitae

NAME

NATIONALITY

Japan

WORK ADDRESS

Department of Information and Communication Engineering,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

EDUCATION

27/3/1997 Bachelor of Engineering, the University of Tokyo
29/3/1999 Master of Engineering, the University of Tokyo
29/3/2002 Doctor of Engineering, the University of Tokyo

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

April 2002 - March 2006	Research Associate (Japan Science and Technology Agency) at the University of Tokyo
April 2006 - August 2009	Research Associate at the University of Manchester
August 2009 - September 2011	Associate Professor at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
October 2011 - July 2018	Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo
July 2018 - present	Professor at the University of Tokyo

RESEARCH TOPICS

Natural language processing
Text mining from biomedical literature
Artificial intelligence in games
Electric vehicles (past)

HONORS AND AWARDS

IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award, 2003
The Association for Natural Language Processing, Japan, Best Journal Paper of the Year, 2003
World Computer Shogi Championship, First Prize, 2002, 2005, 2008, and 2010
Computer Shogi Association, Research Award (2003), Contribution Award (2009)
Honorary Senior Research Fellow (University of Manchester), 2006-2008

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Editorial Board
- Computational Linguistics, 2017-2019
- Computational Intelligence, 2011-2015
- Information Processing Society of Japan, 2015-
- The Association for Natural Language Processing, 2011-2013
- The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2010-2014
Program (Co-)Chair
- Game Programming Workshop (GPW), 2010, 2011
Area (Co-)Chair
- International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2014
- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2010
Program Committee Member / Reviewer
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2008-2010, 2012-2018
- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2006, 2009, 2011-2018
- Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2016, 2017
- North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018
- European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2017
- International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2015, 2016
- International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2010, 2012
- ACL Workshop on BioNLP, 2008-2015
- IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG), 2008-2013, 2015
- IEEE international Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2010
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Demos and Posters, 2007
- International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), 2008, 2013
- Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2014, 2016
- Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB), 2007, 2011-2013, 2015
- International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM), 2009, 2011
- International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM), 2006, 2010, 2012
- Game Programming Workshop (GPW), 2002-2009, 2012
- Advances in Computer Games (ACG), 2003
- International Conference on Computers and Games (CG), 2010, 2013
- Workshop on Building and evaluating resources for biomedical text mining, 2008, 2010
- ACL Workshop on BioNLP Shared Task, 2009, 2011
- ACM International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics (DTMBIO), 2011, 2012
Journal Reviewing:
- Bioinformatics, 2005, 2007-2009, 2012, 2016
- BMC Bioinformatics, 2006, 2009, 2014
- Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014, 2015
- Nucleic Acids Research, 2011
- IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, 2015
- IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2007
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2012
- Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2007-2009, 2011, 2013
- Data & Knowledge Engineering, 2009, 2010
- Computational Intelligence, 2009
- Information Sciences, 2013
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2004
- Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 2011, 2013
- Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2014
- New Mathematics and Natural Computation, 2007
- Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2006
- Journal of Computer Science & Systems Biology, 2009
- Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2012
- IEICE Transactions, 2004, 2009
- Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Journal, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010
- Journal of Natural Language Processing, 2013
- IPSJ Transactions on Bioinformatics, 2009

INVITED TALKS

"Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing and Game AI", 3rd mini-symposium on Computations, Brains and Machines, RIKEN, March, 2016.
"Recent advances in computer Shogi", Seminar, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, December, 2013.
"Recent Advances in Algorithms for Traditional Board and Table Games", Keynote, Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI), Taipei, December, 2013.
"Game AI algorithms", Seminar, Google, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2013.
"Natural language processing and AI", NLP Symposium for Young Researchers (YANS), September, 2012
"State-of-the-art of computer Shogi", Seminar, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, July, 2011
"Basic Technologies for Text Mining", Seminar, Advanced LAnGuage INformation Forum (ALAGIN), Tokyo, July, 2010.
"Scalable Natural Language Processing and Biomedical Text Mining", Seminar, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 2010
"Gekisashi: a Shogi program", Seminar, Google, Tokyo, Japan, May, 2008.
"Building Fast and Accurate Taggers for Biomedical Text", Tokyo Forum on Advanced NLP and TM (T-FaNT 07), Tokyo, Japan, March, 2007.
"Part-of-speech tagging and chunking with log-linear models", Tutorial, IJCAI-07 Workshop on Shallow Parsing in South Asian Languages, Hyderabad, India, January, 2007.
"At the coal face: Text Mining for the novice: technologies and applications", Tutorial, UKeiG meeting, London, UK, June, 2006.
"Gekisashi: a Shogi (Japanese chess) program", Seminar, Yahoo! JAPAN, Tokyo, September, 2005.
"Natural Language Tools and Resources for Biomedical Information Extraction", Seminar, ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan, June, 2005.
"Natural Language Processing Techniques for Biomedical Text Mining", Seminar, National Centre for Text Mining, Manchester, UK, March, 2005.

PUBLICATIONS

List of papers (Google scholar)
- Refereed journal papers:
  - Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, ICGA Journal, IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, etc.
- Refereed conference/workshop papers:
  - EMNLP, ACL, COLING, EACL, SIGIR, IJCAI, CoNLL, IJCNLP, PSB, etc.
- Book chapters and articles:
  - IPSJ Magazine, etc.