Team Detail

Tokuro Matsuo
  • Ph.D
  • Professor, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan
  • Director of Center for AI and Service Science, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan
  • Director, Professional Education Center, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan
  • Visiting Professor, Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia
  • Project Professor, NITech Center for Collective Intelligence, Nagoya Institute of Technology, JapanNagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
  • Professor (Adjunct), Asia University, Taiwan
  • Guest Professor, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

Biography

Dr. Tokuro Matsuo is a full professor at Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology since 2012. He received the doctor degree of engineering from Dept. of Computer Science at Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2006. He is an invited professor at University of Nevada, Jas Vegas, USA since 2016; a guest professor at Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia since 2015; a research project professor of Collective Intelligence Research Center at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan since 2015; a research fellow of SEITI in Central Michigan University, USA since 2010; and an executive director of International Institute of Applied Informatics since 2011. He was a visiting researcher at University of California at Irvine in 2010-2011; was a research fellow at Shanghai University between 2010 to 2013; and was a research project professor of Green Computing Research Center at Nagoya Institute of Technology between 2011 to 2014. His current research interests include electronic commerce and business, service science and marketing, business management, artificial intelligence, material informatics, tourism informatics, convention administration research, and incentive design on e-services. Some of his researches are presented in the top international conferences on AAAI, IEEE CEC, AAMAS, and WWW. He chaired a lot of international conferences including IEEE/ACIS SNPD 2009, 2012 and 2014, IEEE/ACIS ICIS 2010 and 2013, IEEE IWEA 2007-2012, ACAN 2005-2012, and AAI 2012-2016. He gave over 70 keynotes and invited talk at international conferences, symposia, and seminars. He also received over 40 awards and research grants from research foundations, company and Government. He is also commissioned as Japan Conference Ambassador, Kumamoto City MICE Ambassador, and Adviser of Information Promotion of Japan.

Appointment
  • [ 2006 – 2012 ] Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, Japan
  • [ 2012 – present ] Professor at Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan
Visiting Appointment
  • [ 2010 - 2011 ] Visiting Researcher, University of California, Irvine, USA.
  • [ 2010 - 2018 ] Research Fellow, Software Engineering Information Technology Institute, Central Michigan University, USA.
  • [ 2011 - 2013 ] Visiting Researcher, Shanghai University, China.
  • [ 2011 - 2013 ] Project Research Professor, Center for Green Computing, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan.
  • [ 2015 - 2020 ] Guest Professor, Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia.
  • [ 2019 - 2020 ] Visiting Professor, Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia.
  • [ 2015 - ] Project Professor, NITech Center for Collective Intelligence, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan.
  • [ 2016 - 2017 ] Visiting Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA.
  • [ 2018.9 - 2020 ] Invited Professor, Institute of Data Science, City University of Macau, Macau.
  • Professor (Adjunct), Asia University, Taiwan.
  • Guest Professor, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan.

Honor

  • [ April 2016 – present ] Japan Conference Ambassador, Japan National Tourism Organization, Japan.
  • [ April 2015 – Unlimited term ] Kumamoto MICE Ambassador, Japan.

Education

  • B.A. (Primary School Education and Mathematics Education), Saga University, March 2001.
    Graduation Thesis: A Study on Stability of Fixed Points in Non-linear Systems.
  • M.S. (Social Knowledge Science), Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, March 2003.
    Thesis: A Study on Electronic Commerce Support Systems based on Users’ Preferences.
  • Ph.D. (Information Science and Engineering), Nagoya Institute of Technology, March 2006.
    Doctor Dissertation: Studies on Qualitative Modeling and Computational Analysis in Economic Systems.

Academic Experience

  • [ October 2011 – present ] Executive director of International Institute of Applied Informatics, Japan
  • [ September 2013 – present ] Vice-President, Software Engineering Research Foundation, USA
  • [ September 2011 – May 2015 ] Board of Director, International Association for Computer and Information Science, USA
  • [May 2015 – May 2017] Vice-President, International Association for Computer and Information Science, USA

Research Grants

  • [ 2015 - 2020 ] Tokuro Matsuo (CI in Agent-Based Large-scale Consensus Support System), (Research Group Leader in Analysis of Large-scale Consensus Support Process and Applications), $800,000USD, CREST, JST.
  • [ 2015 - 2018 ] Tokuro Matsuo (PI), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (General Research B), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, $170,000USD, JSPS.
  • [ 2012 - 2013 ] Tokuro Matsuo (PI), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Exploratory Research), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, $30,000USD, JSPS.
  • [ 2009 - 2012 ] Tokuro Matsuo (PI), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Young researcher B), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, $35,000USD, JSPS.
  • [ 2009 - 2010 ] Tokuro Matsuo (PI), Research Grant, Casio Foundation, $30,000USD.
  • [ 2009 - 2010 ] Tokuro Matsuo (PI), Research Grant, Intelligence Cosmos Foundation, $11,000USD.
  • [ 2008 - 2009 ] Tokuro Matsuo (PI), Research Grant, Telecommunication Advances Foundation, $9,300USD.
  • [ 2007 - 2008 ] Tokuro Matsuo (PI), Grant for Strategic Research Projects, Yamagata University, $10,000USD.
  • [ 2007 - 2008 ] Tokuro Matsuo (PI), Grant for Doctorate Receiver, NEC C&C Foundation, $20,000USD.
  • [ 2006 - 2009 ] Tokuro Matsuo (CI), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
  • [ 2006 - 2008 ] Tokuro Matsuo (PI), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Start-up), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, $28,000USD, JSPS.
  • [ 2006 - 2008 ] Tokuro Matsuo (CI), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
  • [ 2004 - 2005 ] Tokuro Matsuo (PI), Research Scholarship, The Daiko Fundation, $3, 500USD.
  • [ 2003 - 2004 ] Tokuro Matsuo (PI), Research Grant, Japan Science Research Fundationm $6,500USD.

  • [ 2004 - ] IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
    [ 2004 - ] IEEE Computer Society
  • [ 2004 - ] AAAI Lifetime Member(The American Association for Artificial Intelligence)
  • [ 2002 - ] IEEJ Senior Member(The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan)
  • [ 2001 - ] IPSJ (The Information Processing Society of Japan)
  • [ 2001 - ] JSAI (The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence)

Professional License

  • Teacher’s License of Primary School, Acquisition in 2001.
Hidekazu Iwamoto
  • Ph.D
  • Associate Professor
  • Josai International University, Japan

Biography

Dr.Hidekazu Iwamoto is a associate professor at Josai International University, Japan since 2020. He received the doctoral degree at Waseda University in 2011. He was a visiting researcher at Comprehensive Research Organization, Waseda University until 2016. His specility is convention studies and service management.

Appointment
  • [ 2012 - 2014 ] Researcher at Josai University Educational Corporation, Japan
  • [ 2014 – 2020 ] Assistant Professor at Josai International University, Japan
  • [ 2020 – present ] Associate Professor at Josai International University, Japan
  • [ 2017 - 2018 ] External reviewer/advisor of PBL, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology
  • [ 2018 - 2019 ] External reviewer/advisor of PBL, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology
  • [ 2018 - present ] Research Fellow, Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Service Science, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology

Research Grants

  • [ 2017-2018 ] Principal Investigator, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, $ 29,991 USD, JSPS. The project aims at identifying influential factors to attract international conventions for convention planners.
  • [ 2018-2020 ] Co-Investigator, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, $ 36,912 USD, JSPS. The project seeks an effective approach to capitalize on foreign workers in tourism industry in order to overcome the current acute labor shortage.
  • [ 2020-2022 ] Principal Investigator, Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, $ 39,565 USD, JSPS. The project discusses convention site selection criteria to promote international tourism, especially inbound tourism.

Services

  • [ 2018 ] Conference Chair, 3rd International Conference on Business Management of Technology
  • [ 2019-present ] Steering Committee, International Conference on Business Management of Technology
  • [ 2021-present ] Editor-in-Chief, Studies in Tourism Sciences and Informatics (title pending), IIAI Open Conference Publication Series (IIAI OCPS)

Keynote and Invited Talk

  • [ 2017 ] Invited Talk, International Tourism and Convention Symposium
  • [ 2018 ] Invited Talk, International Tourism and Convention Symposium
  • [ 2021 ] Invited Talk, AIIT/DCS-BINUS International Symposium on Decision Science and Consensus Formation (Convention site selection criteria during Covid-19)

Edited Books

  • [ 2015 ] Tourism Informatics: Towards novel knowledge based Approaches. Berlin, Germany: Springer
  • [ 2021-present ] Studies in Tourism Sciences and Informatics (title pending) (to be published), IIAI Open Conference Publication Series (IIAI OCPS)