Biography
Yasufumi Takama was born in Japan in 1971. He received the B. S. Degree, M.S. Degree, and Dr. Eng. Degree from University of Tokyo in 1994, 1996, and 1999, respectively. He was a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Research Fellow from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 to 2002 he was a Research Associate at Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. From 2002 to 2005, he was an Associate Professor at Department of Electronic Systems and Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. Since 2005, he has been an Associate Professor at Faculty of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. He also participated in PREST (Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology), JST (Japan Science and Technology Corporation) from 2000 to 2003. He is a member of IEEE Computer Society, JSAI (Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence), IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan), IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers), and SOFT (Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics).
Research Interests
- - Visual data mining
- - Web intelligence
- - Information visualization
- - Recommendation
- - Intelligent interactive systems
- - Artificial Intelligence
- - Soft computing
Current Research Interests
- -Interactive information visualization for exploratory data analysis
- -Modeling personal values for recommendation
- -Mining & recommendation of tourist information
- -Information visualization for monitoring support
- -User interface on Android smartphones
Contact Address
Yasufumi TAKAMA
Associate Professor
Faculty of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University
6-6 Asahigaoka, Hino
Tokyo 191-0065, JAPAN
email: ytakama_at_sd.tmu.ac.jp