Ryusuke Masuoka, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae - As of September 23, 2007

Personal Information

Research Interests

Task Computing, pervasive/ubiquitous computing, semantic web, bioinformatics, quantum computing, agent systems, neural networks, artificial intelligence, and simulated annealing.

Employment

July, 2006 - Present

Director, Trusted Systems Innovation Group, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc.

June, 2004 - June, 2006

Research Fellow, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc.

July, 2001 - Present

Adjunct Professor, UMIACS, University of Maryland

February, 2001 - May, 2004

Senior Researcher, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc.

April, 1998 - January, 2001

Senior Researcher, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.

October 10, 2000 - November 24, 2000

Visiting Research Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, UMBC

September, 1991 - June, 1993

Visiting Scientist, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

April, 1988 - March, 1998

Researcher, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.

Academic and Professional Qualifications

Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences

Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, March 17th, 2000.

dissertation: "Neural Networks Learning Differential Data" (advisor: Michio Yamada)

M.S. in Mathematical Sciences

Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, March 30th, 1987. 

thesis: "On the Stability of Riemannian Manifolds" (advisor: Takushiro Ochiai)

S.B. in Mathematics

Department of Mathematics, School of Science, University of Tokyo, March 28th, 1985.

(advisor: Takushiro Ochiai)

Dynamic Discussions

Dynamic Discussions, Maryland English Institute (MEI), University of Maryland, Winter Semester, 2003

American English Pronunciation (AEP) Course

American English Pronunciation (AEP) Course, Maryland English Institute (MEI), University of Maryland, Winter Semester, 2002

Advanced Oral Communiation Skills Class

Advanced Oral Communiation Skills Class, UMEI 008, Maryland English Institute (MEI), University of Maryland, Fall Semester, 2001

55th TOEIC test score 985

55th TOEIC test score 985, September, 1996

First Grade of the STEP

First Grade of the STEP Test (in practical English proficiency), 1994.

Prime Minister's Australian Science Scholar

Attended at "Energy of Survival," The 20th International Science School by the Science Foundation for Physics within the University of Sydney, August 14, 1979 through September 9, 1979.

Memberships

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• The Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• The Mathematical Society of Japan (MSJ)

Awards and Honors

IPSJ Best Author Award (1995)

Contribution to Institutes and Societies

November 14, 2007 - July 24, 2007

Fujitsu alternate contributor board member for the board of directors (BoD) of Trusted Computing Group.

November 10-11, 2006

Member of the Program Committee of "OWL: Experiences and Directions 2006" Athens, Georgia, USA.

July 18, 2006 -

Principal Investigator, Generalized Integrated Learning Architecture (GILA) Team of the DARPA Integrated Learning Project.

September 18-22, 2006

Member of the Program Committee of the Third International Workshop on Semantic and Dynamic Processes (SWDP 2006) in conjunction with 2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006), Chicago, USA

July 16-20, 2006

Member of the Program Committee of the Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and the Web at the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), Boston, USA. 16-20 July 2006.

April 3 or 7, 2006

Member of the Program Committee of "International Workshop on Semantics enabled Networks and Services (ICDE SeNS 2006)" workshop, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

November 11-12, 2005

Member of the Program Committee of "OWL: Experiences and Directions" workshop, Galway, Ireland.

November 3-6, 2005

Member of the Program Committee of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Agents and the Semantic Web (ASW05), Arlington, Virginia, USA.

November 21-30, 2005

Member of the Program Committee of the First International On-Line conference on Metadata and Semantics Research: Approaches to Advanced Information Systems (MSR'05).

July 17-21, 2005

Program co-chair of MobiQuitous 2005, San Diego, California, USA.

July 12-15, 2005

Second International Workshop on Semantic and Dynamic Web Processes (SDWP 2005), a workshop of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005), Orland, Florida, USA.

June 27, 2005

Reviewed a special issues proposal for AI Magazine

June 9-10, 2005

W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Innsbruck, Austria

December 10-11, 2004

Member of the Workshop Program Committee of the International Workshop on Massively Multi-Agent Systems (MMAS2004), Kyoto, Japan.

November 7-11, 2004

Member of the Industrial Track Program Committee of 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004), Hiroshima, Japan. Also a Member of the Program Committee of the "Semantic Web Services" workshop at ISWC2004.

August 26, 2004

Member of the Technical Program Committee of First Workshop on Pervasive Security, Privacy and Trust (PSPT 2004) in Conjunction with MobiQuitous 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

August 22-26, 2004

Member of the Technical Program Committee of MobiQuitous 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

July 19 - 23, 2004

Member of the program committee of the "Agents for Ubiquitous Computing" workshop in conjunction with the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2004), New York City, USA.

July 6, 2004

Member of the program committee of the "First International Workshop on Semantic Web Services and Web Processes Composition" (SWSWPC 2004) in conjunction with the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004), San Diego, California, USA, June 6 - 9, 2004. Also a Panelist on the panel, "Do academic research and industry differ in the role and approach to use semantics for Web Processes?" for the SWSWPC 2004 workshop.

December 8, 2003

Reviewed a paper for World Wide Web Journal

October 13, 2003 -

Senior Investigator of Semantic Prototypes in Research Ecoinfomatics (SPIRE)

September 22, 2003 -

Advisor on the Semantic Web Services Initiative (SWSI) Industrial Partners (Follow the link, "Industrial Partners," in the SWSI page)

October 20 - 23, 2003

Member of the Program Committee of the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003)

April, 2003

Evaluated a research grant proposal to the Council of Physical Sciences of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

May 19-22, 2003

Member of the Program Committee of the 3rd International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC 2003) at the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2003), May 19-22, 2003, Providence, Rhode Island USA

March 12th, 2003

Member of the Program Committee of International Workshop on Semantic Web Foundations and Application Technologies (SWFAT) held in conjunction with the Semantic web and Data mining Symposium, the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University March 10th - 11th.

September 5th, 2002

Originator of the Special Interest Group for Pervasive Information Appliances of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).

August 18th, 2002 - March, 2005

Secretary of the Special Interest Group for the Semantic Web and Ontology of Japan Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI).

January 23rd, 2003

Helped "School International Exchange over Internet" project between Inokuchimyojin Elementary School in Hiroshima, Japan and Wilkinson Elementary School in Washington, DC, US

January 21st, 2003 - January 24th, 2003

Member of the Program Committee of 4th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2003), 21-24 January, 2003, Melbourne, Australia.

November, 2002

Associate Editor for Special Section on "Concurrent System Technology and Its Application to Multiple Agent Systems," the IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, November, 2002.

July 15th, 2002 - July 19th, 2002

Member of the Program Committees of First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002) , Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, and Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents on embedded, wearable, and mobile devices, Bologna, Italy

January 28th, 2002 - February 1st, 2002

Member of the Program Committee of the 2002 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT-2002), Nara, Japan

May 29th, 2001

Member of the Program Committee of Workshop on Ontologies in Agents Systems (OAS) held at Autonomous Agents 2001 (May 28th, 2001 - June 1st, 2001), Montreal, Canada

May 25th, 2000 - March 31st, 2001

June 22nd, 1999 - March 31st, 2000

Member of the Special Interest Group on Network Agent Technology, sponsored by Japan Information Processing Development Corporation (JIPDEC)

May 22nd, 1999 - March, 2001

Member of Steering Committee of CST (Concurrent System Technology) Technical Group, IEICE

October, 1998 - October, 1999

Member of Technical Committee (TC) 2 and TC B (Agent Management), FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents)

Reviewers

Reviewers for numerous journal and conference papers

Invited Talks and Seminars

Invited talk, "Task Computing - Fusing the Semantic Web and Ubiquitous Computing," at the Semantic Web technology for mobile and ubiquitous applications (SWMU Workshop), 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004), Hiroshima, Japan, November 7, 2004.

Invited talk on Task Computing at the Kobe University, 神戸大学国際文化学部情報論講座講演会, 「ここまで来ているユビキタス - Task Computing：デジタルリソースの遍在化と高次処理 -」, November 4, 2004

Panelist on the panel, "Do academic research and industry differ in the role and approach to use semantics for Web Processes?" at the First International Workshop on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition (SWSWPC 2004), the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004), San Diego, USA, July 6, 2004.

Panelist at "Agents for e-business and e-industry," Workshop of the Special Interest Group on Network Agent Technology, Tokyo, Japan, January 24th, 2001 (In Japanese).

"Intelligent Systems," FQS Professional Seminar at FQS (Fujitsu Kyushu System Engineering), Fukuoka, Japan, August 4th, 2000 (In Japanese).

"JADE Hands-on Seminar," First Seminar of Agent Interoperability Initiative, Intelligent Agent Society organized and performed by Ryusuke Masuoka and Yoshiaki Teramoto, Tokyo, Japan, July 28th, 2000 (In Japanese).

"Virtual Information Integration by Agents and AGENTPRO," Agent Technology Seminar at NTT Comware, Chiba, Japan, March 8th, 2000 (In Japanese). 

"On the Stability of Riemannian Manifolds," Geometry Symposium, Shinshu University, July 29, 1988.

Papers

Please visit http://www.flacp.fujitsulabs.com/~rmasuoka/papers for my papers.