Takuro Yonezawa

@Nagoya University, Japan


Takuro Yonezawa

Associate Professor
Nagoya University, Japan
Kawaguchi Laboratory
E-mail: takuro [at] nagoya-u.jp
Phone: +081-52-789-4388
Address: Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan

Biography

Takuro Yonezawa is an associate professor in Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan. He received Ph.D. degree in the Media and Governance from Keio University in 2010. His research interests are the intersection of the distributed systems, human-computer interaction and sensors/actuators technologies. He is also leading several smart city projects as a technical coordinator, such as FP7/NICT European-Japanese collaborative research project (ClouT project), NICT social big data project, MIC G-Space city project, and so on. He was awarded IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award (2009), IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award (2013/2019), IPSJ/IEEE Computer Society Young Computer Researcher Award(2021) and so on.

Research Projects

  • JST RISTEX A model for preventing social isolation and loneliness through service mobility and multiform community connections (2023-2027)
  • JST CREST Trusted Inter-Reality (2022-2028)
  • NICT Diversity-Driven Transformation Project (2021-2023)
  • MIC SCOPE Project (2019-2020)
  • NEDO/SIP2 CityFeder Project (2019)
  • Technocal Coordinator: Europe-Japan Joint Research Project “Big data meeting Cloud of Things for empowering the citizen clout in smart cities” (2016-2018)
  • Technical Coordinator: Europe-Japan Joint Research Project “ClouT: Cloud of Things for Empowering the Citizen Clout in Smart Cities” (2013-2015)
  • NICT Social Big Data Project (2014-2017)
  • Fujitsu Research Joint Research Project (2013-2015)
  • NICT Virtual Networked Sensing Project (2011-2012)
  • Microsoft Research Asia Joint Research Project (2011)
  • NTT DoCoMo Joint Research Project (2005-2018)
  • NICT Dynamic Network Project (2008-2010)
  • Exploratory Software Project, Information-technology Promotion Agency (2006-07) etc.

Experiences

  • Associate Professor, Nagoya University (2019)
  • Research Associate Professor, Keio University (2018)
  • Research Lecturer, Keio University (2014)
  • Visiting Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University (2012)
  • Research Assistant Professor, Keio University (2010)
  • Internship Researcher, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory (2008)
  • Part-time Lecture, Keio University (2007-)
  • Part-time Lecture, Bunkyo University (2008-2010)

Education

  • Ph.D in Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University (2010.3)
  • M.S. in Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University (2007.3)
  • B.S. in Environment and Information Studies, Keio University (2005.3)

Services

  • Senior Program Committee, ACM ICMI2023
  • Board Member, Urban Technology Alliance (2022-)
  • Moderator, 11th EU-JPAN ICT Strategies Workshop (2021)
  • Associate Editor (Editorial Board), ACM IMWUT journal - Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (2020-)
  • Program Committee, ICMU2019 (2019)
  • Associate Poster Chair, MobileHCI'19(2019)
  • Steering Committee, International Workshop on Smart Cities: People, Technology and Data (2017)
  • Associate Editor, IEICE Transaction on Communications "Special Section on Wireless Distributed Networks for IoT Era" (2017)
  • Organizer, International Workshop on Smart Cities: People, Technology and Data 2016 (2016) Program Committee, The 36th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS2016) (2016)
  • Program Committee, 13th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (2016)
  • General Chair, International Conference on IoT in Urban Space (2016) Organizers/Program co-Chairs, International Workshop on Smart Cities: People, Technology and Data 2015 (2015)
  • Program Committee, International Conference on Cloud, Networking for IoT systems 2015(2015)
  • Program Committee, 3rd International Workshop on Self-Aware Internet of Things (Self-IoT) 2015 (2015)
  • Program Committee, The 5th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IOT) 2015 (2015)
  • Publicity co-Chairs, ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2015 (2015)
  • Program Committee, The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE'15 (2015)
  • Program Committee, The 4th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2014)
  • Program Committee, The 1st International Conference on IoT in Urban Space (Urb-IoT 2014) (2014)
  • Program Committee, The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE'14 (2014)
  • Program Committee, The 5th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI14) (2014)
  • Program Chair, International Workshop on Web Intelligence and Smart Sensing (2014)
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2013)
  • Reviewer, International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) (2013)
  • Reviewer, International conference on Instrumentation, Control, Information Technology and System Integration (2013)
  • Reviewer, IEEE Globecom 2013 (2013)
  • Program Committee, The 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environment (IE'13) (2013)
  • Program Committee, Self-aware Internet of Things, a special track in ICAC 2013 (The 10th - International Conference on Autonomic Computing) (2013)
  • Program Committee, GPC 2013 : The 8th International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (2013)
  • Workshop Co-chair, The 9th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems(INSS2012)
  • Program Committee, IEICE International Conference on Human Probes and Smartphone Sensing (ICHPSS 2011)
  • Program Committee, SocialUbr-2011, Workshop on Social Connections in the Urban Space (in conjunction with SocialCom2011)
  • Reviewer, Pervasive/Ubicomp (2010-)
  • Reviewer, INSS2011: The 8th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (2011)
  • Program Committee, GPC 2011 : The 6th International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (2011)
  • Organizer, International Workshop on Ultra-Low-Cost Wireless Sensor Networks and their Applications at the INSS'10 (2010)
  • Program Committee, The 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (2010)
  • Reviewer, The 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP2010) (2010) etc.