NISHIO Hirokazu

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Who I am

Dr. NISHIO Hirokazu is a Japanese researcher and software engineer, working in Cybozu Labs Inc. e-mail: nishio "dot" hirokazu "at" gmail "dot" com. Feel free to contact me!

He received doctor of science when he was 24 years old. From 2007 he is working in Cybozu Labs and research software to enhance creativity. He also is interested in development of programming languages. He wrote "Jython Programming" and "Basic Concept of Language Design".

Dr. NISHIO Hirokazu is artist, engineer and scientist (alphabetical order) (from profile on Twitter)

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mail: nishio (dot) hirokazu (at) gmail (dot) com

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About My Name

I wrote this section for non-Japanese people. My name is "NISHIO Hirokazu" and "NISHIO" is the family name. All Japanese people say their family name first when they are speaking Japanese language, but unfortunately many people are misunderstanding that we must say given name first when we speak English.

My family name "NISHIO" is made of two characters "NISHI"(west) and "O"(tail). "O" has same origin with "WO"(fish) so my ancestor might be a fisher. "NISHIO" is pronounces like "knee see awe" but shorter. My given name "Hirokazu" is made of two characters "HIRO" and "KAZU". "HIRO" is pronounced like a hero. It means "big" and "calmful". (Wiktionary). "KAZU" is pronounced like a cousin without "n". It means "peace" and "harmony". (Wiktionary).

Please call me Hiro.

My Face

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What I did

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Formal profile

NISHIO Hirokazu was born in 1981. He received B.Sc. degree from Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in 2004. He received a degree of doctor from NAIST in 2006.[PDF] He wan been a Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from 2005. His research interests include Visualization of Large-scale data obtained from biological experiments. He is a member of Information Processing Society of Japan and Japan Society of Artificial Intelligence.

History

1981-07-23 to now I am living in the world.
1994-04/1997-03 Nada junior high school. (graduated)
1997-04/2000-03 Nada high school. (graduated)
2000-04/2003-03 Kyoto University (Dept. of Infomatics and Computer Science)
2002-11/2003-03 Information-Technoogy Promotion Agency, Japan(IPA) Exploratory Software Project (Exploratory Youth). I had a chance to drive my project on visualization of genome sequence.
2003-04/2004-03 Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST), Graduate School of Information Science Master's cource.(graduated)
2004-04/2006-03 NAIST Doctor's course. Doctor of Science(PDF)
2004-05/2005-02 NAIST teaching assistant
2004-08 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) IT cultivation of human resources project, IT School 2004 tutor
2005-04/2006-03 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow (DC2)
2005-08 MEXT IT School 2005 tutor
2006-04/2007-03 JSPS Research Fellow (PD)
2006-05/2007-03 Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
2006-08 MEXT ICTSchool 2006 tutor
2007-04 to now Cybozu Lab, Inc. Software Engineer.
2008-04 Published a book "Jython Programming" in Japanese
2009-08 Lecturer of "Security & Programming Camp 2009" (hosted by IPA, JIPDEC(Japan Information Processing Development Corporation) and JNSA(Japan Network Security Association), co-hosted by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry(METI), supported by MEXT)
2010-08 Lecturer and Working Group member of "Security & Programming Camp 2010" (hosted by IPA, co-hosted by METI, supported by MEXT, JIPDEC and JNSA)
2010-12 Wrote special topic "Core Concept of Languege Design" on magazine WEB+DB PRESS Vol.60 except for the foreword written by Matz. Published by Gijutsu-Hyohron Co., Ltd.
2011-08 Chief lecturer of programming languages class of "Security & Programming Camp 2011" (hosted by IPA, co-hosted by: METI, supported by MEXT)
2013-04 Published a book "Technologies that support codings" in Japanese. It was the bestseller in Amazon programming category. It was the bestseller among computer related books published in 2013
2013-09 Held an workshop "Design of teamwork" on Kyoto University Summer Design School
2014-05 Published "natural language processing with word2vec" from O'Reilly Japan in Japanese
2014-09 PyCon JP 2014 Keynote Speech [slide]
2017-05 BeProud Inc. Technical Fellow
2018-04 Cybozu Labs. Research Director
2018-04 Tokyo Institute of Technology Program-Specific Associate Professor

Awards

Yamauchi Award, Programming Symposium, Infomation Processing Society of Japan, 2003-01
Super Creater[PDF], Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan, 2003-07
Yamauchi Award, Programming Symposium, Infomation Processing Society of Japan, 2004-01
IPSJ Digital Courier FUNAI WAKATE SHOUREISHOU, FUNAI FOUNDATION FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 2007.
Ikeuchi Award, TAGBOAT SUMMER AWARD 2009, 2009-06.
Excellent works, ASIAGRAPH 2009, 2009-10.
Yamauchi Award, Programming Symposium, Infomation Processing Society of Japan, 2011-01