Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Dr. Sc.

Profile

Hiroyuki Kitagawa received the B.Sc. degree in physics and the M.Sc. and Dr.Sc. degrees in computer science, all from the University of Tokyo, in 1978, 1980, and 1987, respectively. He joined Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics, University of Tsukuba, in 1988. He is currently a full professor at Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering and at Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba. He is Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba. Before joining University of Tsukuba, he was a research staff member in NEC Corporation, Tokyo. He was a visiting scholar of University of Maryland from 1984 to 1985, and of Carnegie Mellon University from 2001 to 2002. His research interests include integration of heterogeneous information sources, sensor databases and streams, data mining, WWW and databases, XML and semi-structured data, multimedia databases, and human interface. He is a member of ACM, IEEE Computer Society, the Database Society of Japan, IEICE, IPSJ, and JSSST. He served as Chairperson of the IEICE Special Interest Group on Data Engineering from May 1999 to May 2001, Chairperson of ACM SIGMOD Japan Chapter from June 2003 to June 2007, and Vice Chairperson of the Database Society of Japan from June 2005 to June 2007. He is now an IEICE Fellow, an IPSJ Fellow, and a Trustee of the Database Society of Japan.

Publications

Selected Publication List
DBLP
ACM Guide
BibFinder

Professional Activities

• Steering Committee Member of DASFAA (2008-Present)
• Chair of ACM SIGMOD Japan Chapter (2003-2007)
• Vice Chair of the Database Society of Japan (2005-2007)
• Trustee of the Database Society of Japan (2003-Present)
• Chair of IEICE Special Interest Group on Data Engineering (1999-2001)
• Advisory Board Member of IEICE Special Interest Group on Data Engineering (2001-Present)
• Associate Editor of Journal of Web Engineering (2005-Present)
• General Chair for DASFAA 2010
• General Co-Chair for APWeb 2008
• Publicity Chair for ICDE 2005
• International Program Committee Member for
  • ACM SIGMOD (1996)
  • VLDB (1995, 1999, 2006 (Demo))
  • ICDE (1995)
  • DASFAA (2001, 2003, 2005)
  • CIKM (1998)
  • WISE (2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006)
  • ER (1998, 2001)
  • FODO (1998)
  • EC-Web (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
  • APWeb (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
  • ICWS (2004, 2006)
  • WAIM (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
  • ICWE (2005, 2006)
  • and others
• Ad-hoc Reviewer for
  • ACM Transactions on Database Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • The VLDB Journal
  • Information Processing Letters
  • The Visual Computer
  • and others

Courses

College of Information Science:
• Database Systems I
• Information Retrieval
Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering:
• Data Engineering I

His Research Laboratory

KDE Laboratory

Address

Department of Computer Science
Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering
University of Tsukuba
Tennohdai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
Phone/Fax (Office): +81-298-53-5522
Phone (Lab.): +81-298-53-5051/5385
Email: kitagawa(AT)cs.tsukuba.ac.jp

Database Research Group

Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering

Center for Computational Sciences

Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics