Ph.D. (Computer Science and Information Methematics)

Professor
Department of Spatial Design and Information Systems
School of Project Design
Miyagi University

Gakuen 1, Taiwa-cho, Kurokawa-gun, Miyagi 981-3298, JAPAN
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• Hobbies: Stand reading at bookstores, trekking and travelling in rural areas, studying foreign languages. For details, please refer to Hideki Kozima's PrivateSpace.
• Skills: handcrafting gadgets, reciting Pi (3.14159...), riding on a unicycle.
• My favorite items: MacBook (with Mac OS X + Ubuntu Linux), iPhone / iPod touch, STAX earspeaker (condenser-type headphone), SolidWorks (3D CAD), Mini Mayfair (car).
• My favorite books: Saussure "Cours de Linguistique Générale"; Hofstadter "Gödel, Escher, Bach"; Minsky "The Society of Mind" (Minsky); Tomasello "The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition".
• My favorite food: Sushi (squid, mackerel), Beer ("Malts"), Almond chocolate (bitter), Lamen noodle-soup (clear soup), Kaki-pea, Kappa-ebisen.
• My favorite words: "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." (Mama Gump).

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• CV (curriculum vitae) is here (PDF).

• 1988: Graduated from Department of Information Methmatics, Faculty of Electro-Communications, The University of Electro-Communications. (Bachelor thesis: "Research on bidirectional transformation between text and meaning", in Japanese)
• 1990: Master of Engineering from Course in Computer Science and Information Mathematics, Graduate School of Electro-Communications, The University of Electro-Communications. (Master thesis: "Lexical and syntactic disambiguation model for natural language understanding", in Japanese)
• 1994: Doctor of Engineering from Course in Computer Science and Information Mathematics, Graduate School of Electro-Communications, The University of Electro-Communications. (Doctor thesis: "Computing lexcal cohesion as a tool for text analysis")

• 1994-1998: Research Scientist, Kansai Advanced Research Center, Communications Research Laboratory (CRL). (Theme: "Cognitive science of human communication")
• 1998-1999: Visiting Researcher, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). (Theme: "Humanoid robotics")
• 2000-2004: Senior Research Scientist, Keihanna Human Info-Communications Research Center, Communications Research Laboratory (CRL). (Theme: "Development of communication in humans and robots")
• 2004-2006: Senior Research Scientist, Keihanna Human Info-Communications Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). (Theme: "Communication-care for children")
• 2006-2008: Senior Research Scientist, Knowledge Creating Communication Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). (Theme: "Communication-care for everyone")
• 2008-: Professor, Department of Spatial Design and Information Systems, School of Project Design, Miyagi University. (Theme: "Research and education in interaction design and communication-care")

• 1996: Grants for Individual Researchers and Research Groups, The Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications. (Theme: "Memory-based natural language understanding and generation")
• 1998: Science and Technology Agency, Long-term Visiting Research Grant (Visiting research on humanoid robotics at MIT AI Lab.)
• 2002: Outstanding Research Award, Communications Research Laboratory. (Theme: "Research on embodied communication")
• 2003: SI2002 Best Session Award. (Theme: What is the prerequisites for empathetic robots?)
• 2004: IEEE ROMAN-2003 Best Paper Award. (Theme: "Attention coupling as a prerequisite for social interaction")
• 2007: HAI-2006 (Human Agent Interaction 2006) Outstanding Research Award. (Theme: "Human-robot interaction in therapeutic and pedagogical fields").
• 2007: Robots at Play Prize 2007 "Keepon" (Hideki Kozima, Marek Michalowski, Cocoro Nakagawa)
• 2007: IEEE ROMAN-2007 Best Insteractive Demonstration Award "Keepon and the BeatBots" (Hideki Kozima, Marek Michalowski)
• 2008: ICRA-2008 (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation), The ICRA 2008 Robot Challenge, Winner of the 1st Grand Challenge in Human-Robot Interaction, "Keepon" (Hideki Kozima, Marek Michalowski)
• 2009: ICRA-2009 (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation), "Kobe City Mayor's Award" for outstanding performance in the 2009 ICRA Human-Robot Interaction Challenge, "BeatBots" (Marek Michalowski, Hideki Kozima)

• English: TOEIC 980 points (2000). Harvard University Extension School: Completed the Intensive Integrated Skill Course at High Advanced Level (1999). STEP (aka Ei-ken) Pre-1st Grade (1996).
• Information Processing: Information Processing Engineer, 2nd Kind (1985).

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