Yutaka Matsuo is an associate professor at Institute of Engineering Innovation, the University of Tokyo. He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1997, 1999, and 2002 (supervised by Prof. Ishizuka). He joined National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) from 2002 to 2007. His major is web mining (especially on social network mining), text processing, and semantic web in the context of artificial intelligence research.
He is one of the prominent young researchers in the information technology field in Japan. He wrote more than 30+ journal papers in Japanese for the past seven years besides 60+ international conference papers. He received the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) Best Paper Award in 2002, JSAI Anniversary Project Award in 2006, and Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Nagao Special Researcher Award in 2008. He joined the editorial committee of JSAI since 2004, and currently serves as associate editor-in-chief. He got Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad in 2005 and stayed for two years at Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University. After coming back to Japan, he joined the faculty of the University of Tokyo in 2007.
He is a PC member of several conferences and workshops.
- Editor-in-Chief, Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2012-present
- Associate Editor-in-Chief, Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2010-2012
- Editorial Board Member, Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2004-present
- Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST), 2010-present
- Program committee, 21th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012), April 2012
- Program committee, 20th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2011), March 2011
- Program committee, 19th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010), April 2010
- Program committee, 18th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2009), April 2009
- Program committee, 17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), April 2008
- Program committee, Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2012), Feb 2012
- Program committee, Forth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2011), Feb 2011
- Program committee, 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012), November 2012
- Program committee, Sixth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), November 2007
- Program committee, 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11), November 2007
- Program committee, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2008), March 2008
- Program committee, The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom2009), August, 2009
- Program committee, The 2009 International Conference on Advanced in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM2009), July 2009
- Program committee, Third Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008), Dec 2008
- Program committee, The 2008 International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'08), Dec 2008
- Program committee, 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2007), May 2007
- Program committee, Workshop on Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge, at 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), May 2007
- Program committee, First International Workshop on Web Mining for E-commerce and E-services (WMEE2007), at IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'07), July 2007
- Program committee, Workshop on Emergent Intelligence on Networked Agents (WEIN' 07), at Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007), May 2007
- Program committee, Workshop on Emergent Intelligence on Networked Agents (WEIN' 06), at Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006), May 2006
- Program committee, 1st International Workshop on Agent Network Dynamics and Intelligence(ANDI05), at 19th Annual Conference of JSAI (JSAI2005), June 2005
- Co-organizer, 3rd International Workshop on Chance Discovery, at 10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction (HCI2003), June, 2003
- Co-organizer, Chance Discovery invited session, at Sixth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES2002), September, 2002
Yutaka Matsuo
matsuo@weblab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Institute of Engineering Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656
Tel: +81-3-5841-1161, Fax: +81-3-5841-7718