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Kentaro Torisawa

NICT Fellow
Associate Director General, Universal Communication Research Institute, NICT
Distinguished Researcher, Data-driven Intelligent System Research Center

torisawa at_mark_here nict.go.jp

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Short Bio

Kentaro Torisawa graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1992. After receiving an MSc in Computer Science from the Graduate School of Science of the University of Tokyo, he became an assistant professor in the same school in 1995. In 2001, he was appointed associate professor at the School of Information Science of the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Since 2008, he is working at NICT and has been an NICT fellow since 2020. He is currently serving as associate director general of the Universal Communication Research Institute (UCRI) in NICT, and as distinguished researcher of the Data-driven Intelligent System Research Center (DIRECT) in UCRI, NICT. He has been awarded many awards/grants including the JSPS prize, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Docomo Mobile Science Award, the Rinzaburo Shida Award and Twitter Data Grants. Also, he is a visiting professor of the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST).

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