Committees

Standing Steering Committee

PRICAI Steering Committee (SC) comprises of selected members, and may include (i) current and past PRICAI conference chairs, and (ii) representatives from associated events.

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Patricia AnthonyCo-Secretary

Patricia Anthony

Co-Secretary

Associate Professor
Lincoln University, New Zealand

More details about Prof. Anthony can be found at her official page.

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Xin GengCurrent Member

Xin Geng

Current Member

Professor
Southeast University, China

Xin Geng is a chair professor of Southeast University, China. His research interests include machine learning, pattern recognition, and computer vision. He has published over 100 refereed papers in these areas. He has been an Associate Editor of IEEE T-MM, FCS, Visual Intelligence and MFC, a Steering Committee Member of PRICAI, a Program Committee Chair for conferences such as PRICAI'18, VALSE'13, etc., an Area Chair for conferences such as IJCAI, CVPR, ACMMM, ICPR, and a Senior Program Committee Member for conferences such as IJCAI, AAAI, ECAI, etc. He is a Distinguished Fellow of IETI and a Senior Member of IEEE.

More details about Prof. Cao can be found at his official page.

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Byeong-Ho KangCurrent Member

Byeong-Ho Kang

Current Member

Professor
University of Tasmania, Australia

More details about Prof. Kang can be found at his official page.

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Fenrong LiuCurrent Member

Fenrong Liu

Current Member

Changjiang Distinguished Professor
Tsinghua University, China

Prof. Liu is a Changjiang Distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University, the Amsterdam-China Logic Chair at the University of Amsterdam, and a Co-Director of the Tsinghua - UvA Joint Research Centre for Logic. Her research areas include preference logic, social epistemic logic, game logics, foundations of AI, and the history of logic in China. She has published extensively on these topics, notably, Reasoning about Preference Dynamics (Springer 2011) and Social Epistemic Logic (Tsinghua University Press 2023). She is currently editing a Handbook of the Logical Thought in China. She is an editor-in-chief of the book series of Studia Logica Library: Logic in Asia, an associate editor of Studia Logica and Studies in Logic, and an editorial board member of Synthese, Theoria, Topoi, History of Humanities, and other international journals.

More details about Prof. Liu can be found at her personal page.

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Seong-Bae ParkCurrent Member

Seong-Bae Park

Current Member

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Kyung Hee University, Korea

Prof. Park received his B.S. degree in computer science from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 1994, and the M.S. degree in computer engineering and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from Seoul National University in 1996 and 2002, respectively. He was a professor of computer science and engineering with Kyungpook National University from 2004 to 2017. In 2018, he joined Kyung Hee University, where he is currently a full professor of computer science and engineering. His research interests include machine learning, natural language processing, text mining, information extraction, and bioinformatics.

More details about Prof. Park can be found at his university profile.

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Alok SharmaCurrent Member

Alok Sharma

Current Member

Senior Research Scientist
RIKEN, Japan

Alok Sharma received the B.Tech. degree from the University of the South Pacific (USP), Suva, Fiji, in 2000 and the M.Eng. degree, and the Ph.D. degree in the area of pattern recognition from Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He was with the University of Tokyo, Japan (2010–2012), as a Research Fellow (under JSPS). He is a Senior Research Scientist at RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Japan. He also is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems (IIIS), Griffith University, Australia. He is also a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He was a Professor at the USP, Fiji. He was a visiting lecturer at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Japan. He participated in various projects carried out in conjunction with Motorola (Sydney), Auslog Pty., Ltd. (Brisbane), CRC Micro Technology (Brisbane), the French Embassy (Suva), and JSPS (Japan). His research interests include artificial intelligence, computer security, human cancer classification, and proteomics. He has published over 150 scientific articles in these areas with h-index 44. He contributed in reviewing and editing several articles from journals and conferences. He is the recipient of Griffith award of academic excellence, Australia, 2002, and the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for best research output, Fiji, 2013.

More details about Prof. Sharma can be found at his official page.

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Quan BaiCo-Secretary

Quan Bai

Co-Secretary

Associate Professor
University of Tasmania, Australia

Quan Bai is an associate professor at the School of Information & Communication Technology, University of Tasmania (UTAS), Australia. He is an active researcher in AI and leading the AI Research Group at UTAS. Quan’s research has been mainly focusing on multi-agent coordination, trust mining, knowledge management. He has over 120 research publications and involved in the organisation of a number of international conferences, including AAMAS, PRIMA, PRICAI and Australasian AI.

More details about Prof. Bai can be found at his official page.

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Guido GovernatoriCurrent Member

Guido Governatori

Current Member

Adjunct Professor
Griffith University, Australia

More details about Prof. Governatori can be found at his personal page.

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M G M KhanCurrent Member

M G M Khan

Current Member

Associate Professor
University of the South Pacific, Fiji

M.G.M. Khan received his BSc degree from the University of Calcutta, MSc, and PhD degrees from Aligarh Muslim University. He is currently an Associate Professor in Statistics at the School of Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics (STEMP) at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. He has been teaching statistics in STEMP for more than 21 years. Dr. Khan is conducting research in the areas of mathematical programming and its applications, stratification, survey sampling and calibration estimation, clustering, statistical modeling and forecasting, renewable energy studies and environmental science, optimization, Bayesian analysis, data science, and machine learning. In these research areas, he has published more than 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has also successfully supervised 3 PhD and 25 MSc Students.

More details about Prof. Khan can be found at his researchgate profile.

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Dickson LukoseCurrent Member

Dickson Lukose

Current Member

Head of AI and R&D
Tabcorp Holdings Ltd., Australia

Prof. Lukose has over 25 years of experience in professional consulting services, applied research and development in Artificial Intelligence Systems. Prior to joining Tabcorp, Prof. Lukose was with Monash Data Futures Institute at Monash University (Australia). Prof. Lukose was the Chief Data Scientist at GCS Agile Pty. Ltd. (Australia), leading a team of Data Engineers and Scientist building Predictive Models, Ontology Modelling and Engineering. During his role as the Chief Research Director and Director of Artificial Intelligence Centre in MIMOS Berhad (Malaysia) from 2007 to 2016 he was responsible for leading a team of 70 research scientists, software architects, software engineering and knowledge engineers in creating intellectual properties and commercialization of these patents by incorporating them into large scale national project for the private and public sectors in Malaysia. His role was to plot the strategic direction of his teams R&D in AI, in addition to mentor and guide his team on the application of novel AI techniques and technologies including Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Semantic Web, Knowledge Graphs, Social Network Analytics, and Natural Language Processing to solve challenging real-world problems. Earlier in his career, Prof. Lukose worked as Principal Knowledge Engineer with Mindbox Inc. (USA) and prior to that with Brightware Inc. (USA) responsible for architecture and development of high-performance Artificial Intelligence software for the Utility and Financial Sector. He holds a BSc (Hons) and a PhD from Deakin University (Australia).

More details about Prof. Lukose can be found at his LinkedIn profile.

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Duc Nghia PhamWeb Coordinator

Duc Nghia Pham

Web Coordinator

Principal Data Scientist and Team Lead
MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia

Dr. Pham is currently the Principal Data Scientist and Team Leader of Data Analytics at MIMOS Berhad. He received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Griffith University, Australia in 2006. His research interests include machine/deep learning, natural language processing, text mining, knowledge representation and reasoning, planning, constraint problem solving and boolean satisfiability. He won several prestigious international awards for his research works. He has successfully delivered several AI-based production solutions to clients in both public and private sectors to assist in making informed business decisions and improving productivity. Prior to MIMOS, Dr Pham worked for several years as a senior research scientist at NICTA Ltd (now CSIRO Data61) and Griffith University.

More details about Dr. Pham can be found at his LinkedIn profile.

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Thanaruk TheeramunkongCurrent Member

Thanaruk Theeramunkong

Current Member

Professor
Thammasat University, Thailand

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Jian CaoCurrent Member

Jian Cao

Current Member

Professor
Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Dr. Jian Cao is currently a tenured professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is also the director of research institute of network computing and service computing. Dr. Cao’s research interests include intelligent data analytics, service computing, collaborative computing and software engineering. Besides national and provincial government research grants, his research is also supported by many industry partners. He has published more than 300 research papers in prestigious journals and conferences. Dr. Cao has won 10 ministerial or provincial level scientific and technological achievements rewards. Currently, he is the distinguished member of CCF and the senior member of IEEE.

More details about Prof. Cao can be found at his official page.

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Rafik HadfiCurrent Member

Rafik Hadfi

Current Member

Associate Professor
Kyoto University, Japan

More details about Prof. Hadfi can be found at his official page.

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Sankalp KhannaTreasurer

Sankalp Khanna

Treasurer

Principal Research Scientist and Team Lead
CSIRO, Australia

Sankalp Khanna is a Principal Research Scientist and leads the Health Intelligence team at the CSIRO Australian e-Health Research Centre. His research is focussed on applying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques to model, analyse, predict, simulate and optimise patient flow through Australian public hospitals, and develop explainable algorithms for delivering decision support that clinicians can interpret and trust. Solutions developed by Sankalp have helped reshape workflow and policy in hospitals in Australia and overseas. Sankalp is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University, the Secretary of the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) Steering Committee, and a founding Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health.

More details about Dr. Khanna can be found at his official page.

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Hideyuki NakashimaCurrent Member

Hideyuki Nakashima

Current Member

President
Sapporo City University, Japan

Prof. Nakashima is the President of Sapporo City University. He received his Ph. D. in Information Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 1983, and joined ETL (Electrotechnical Laboratories). From 2001 to 2004, he was the director of Cyber Assist Research Center of AIST (National Institute of Advanced Institute for Industrial Science and Technology). From 2004 to 2016, he served as the president of Future University Hakodate (currently a President Emeritus). From 2016 to 2018, he was a Project Professor for Chair for Frontier AI Education, The University of Tokyo. From 2018, he is in the current position.

More details about Prof. Nakashima can be found at his official page.

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Hammam RizaCurrent Member

Hammam Riza

Current Member

President
KORIKA

Dr. Hammam Riza is an information and communication technology (ICT) expert from Indonesia who focuses on artificial intelligence. He has a Doctor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering (cum laude) from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky, USA, and Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, majoring in Electronics and Control System.

Currently, he is the President of Indonesia Collaborative AI Association (KORIKA), Chairman of Institute of Indonesia Technology Auditor (IATI), Vice President of ASEAN CIO Association (ACIOA), senate member of Indonesia Internet Organization (PANDI) and MASTEL. He has certification from the Institute of Indonesian Engineers (BKE-PII) as Principal Professional Engineer (IPU) and received the Honorary Member of ASEAN engineers (AFEO). He is a member of the international advisory board of the Asian Federation of NLP (AFNLP), regional representative of International Speech and Communication Association (ISCA), and Oriental Coordinating Committee on Speech Database and Assessment Technique (O-COCOSDA).

More details about Dr. Riza can be found at his short biography, linkedin profile and wikipedia page.

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Guandong XuCurrent Member

Guandong Xu

Current Member

Professor
University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Guandong Xu is a Full Professor in Data Science at the School of Computer Science and Data Analytics Institute, University of Technology Sydney, with PhD degree in Computer Science. His research interests cover Data Science, Recommender Systems, User Modelling, and Social Computing. He has published three monographs in Springer and CRC press, and 220+ journal and conference papers, including TOIS, TKDD, TKDE, TNNLS, TCYB, TMM, TSE, TSC, TIFS, VLDB, IJCAI, AAAI, SIGKDD, SIGIR, CVPR, NIPS, WWW, WSDM, ICDM, ICDE, ICSE, and FSE conferences. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Human-centric Intelligent Systems and the assistant Editor-in-Chief of World Wide Web Journal. He has been serving on the editorial board or as a guest editor for several international journals, such as TOIS, TII, TCSS, PR etc. He has received several Awards from the academic and industry community. He is elevated as the Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Australian Computer Society (ACS) in 2022 and 2021, respectively.

More details about Prof. Xu can be found at his official page.

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Tru Hoang CaoCurrent Member

Tru Hoang Cao

Current Member

Associate Professor
University of Texas, United States

Tru Cao (Cao Hoàng Trụ) is a computer scientist and engineer. He obtained his BEng from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, MEng from Asian Institute of Technology, and PhD from The University of Queensland. He then did his postdoc at The University of Bristol and The University of California at Berkeley. He worked at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, VNU-HCMC University of Technology, for about twenty years. He then visited and taught at the Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics, Eastern Washington University, before joining the current faculty of the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health. He served as a program committee co-chair of ICADL 2007, RIVF 2008, RIVF 2009, PACIS 2012, PAKDD 2015, RIVF 2016, and program committee member for over a hundred international conferences. He has been a steering committee member of the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) since 2006. He has published three textbooks, one monograph, seven edited books, seven book chapters, and more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences in the fields of conceptual structures, soft computing, semantic web, data mining, machine learning, natural language processing, and intelligent health information systems. He is currently interested in symptom research in infectious and chronic diseases and knowledge discovery in electronic health records.

More details about Prof. Cao can be found at his LinkedIn profile.

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Takayuki ItoCurrent Member

Takayuki Ito

Current Member

Professor
Kyoto University, Japan

Dr. Takayuki ITO is Professor of Kyoto University. He received the Doctor of Engineering from the Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2000. He was a JSPS research fellow, an associate professor of JAIST, and a visiting scholar at USC/ISI, Harvard University, and MIT twice. He served as a board member of IFAAMAS, the Program Chair of AAMAS2013, PRIMA2009, JST/ERCIM2021-2022 workshops, General-Chair of PRIMA2014, IEEE ICA2016, the Local Arrangements Chair of IJCAI2020, and a SPC/PC member in many top-level conferences (IJCAI, AAMAS, ECAI, AAAI, etc). He received the JSAI Contribution Award, the JSAI Achievement Award, the JSPS Prize, the Fundamental Research Award of JSSST, the Prize for Science and Technology of the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), the Young Scientists' Prize of the Commendation for Science and Technology by the MEXT, the Nagao Special Research Award of IPSJ, the Best Paper Award of AAMAS2006, the 2005 Best Paper Award of JSSST, and the Super Creator Award of 2004 IPA Exploratory Software Creation Project. He was a JST PREST Researcher, and a principal investigator of the Japan Cabinet Funding Program for Next Generation World-Leading Researchers. He is currently principal investigator of his 2nd JST CREST project.

More details about Prof. Ito can be found at his university profile.

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Satoshi KuriharaCurrent Member

Satoshi Kurihara

Current Member

Professor
Keio University, Japan

More details about Prof. Kurihara can be found at his university profile.

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Abhaya NayakCurrent Member

Abhaya Nayak

Current Member

Associate Professor
Macquarie University, Australia

More details about Prof. Nayak can be found at his official page.

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Abdul SattarChair

Abdul Sattar

Chair

Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Leader of AI4Life Lab and Founding Director of IIIS
Griffith University, Australia

Prof. Sattar is a thought-leader in the space of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. He successfully established the Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems (IIIS), a cross-disciplinary research centre at Griffith University, and was appointed as its founding director in 2003, and served until end of 2015. The growth of the centre in terms of prestige, international recognition and several performance metrics including the number of publications and HDR completions has been, at least in part, a testament to the energy, academic rigour and industry engagement of its leadership.

Prof. Sattar has published over 400 research papers, and successful graduation of over 35 PhD students, with 10 research awards won by the research team under his direct leadership. During his tenure at Griffith he has received in excess of $3m through nationally competitive grant schemes, including 12 major ARC funded projects. He has forged links with NICTA and other funding bodies in our space, and played a key role in founding NICTA’s Queensland Research Laboratory (QRL). He was also a Principal Researcher in the successful bid for the CRC Smart Internet. His efforts have seen IIIS create partnerships with other areas of excellence at Griffith, playing a pivotal role in such ground-breaking areas as socially-useful robotics, bioinformatics in biosecurity and computational proteomics.

A leader in his area of expertise, Prof. Sattar contributes to the development of his field as the Steering Committee Chair of Pacific Rim International Conference in Artificial Intelligence Series (PRICAI), Executive Member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) National Committee on Artificial Intelligence, General Chair of several national and international conferences including AI 2007, AI 2013, PRIMA 2010 and PRICAI 2010, PRICAI 2019 as well as Conference Program Committee Chairs for AI 1997, AI2006, PRICAI 2002 and TIME 2003.

More details about Prof. Sattar can be found at his university profile.

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Zhi-Hua ZhouCurrent Member

Zhi-Hua Zhou

Current Member

Professor
Nanjing University, China

Zhi-Hua Zhou is a Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Nanjing University, China. He has made significant contributions to ensemble learning, multi-label learning, and weakly supervised learning. He is a Fellow of the AAAI, ACM, AAAS, IEEE, IAPR, and recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, PAKDD Distinguished Contribution Award, ACML Distinguished Contribution Award. He served/s as Program Chair for IJCAI-19, AAAI-21, General Chair for PRICAI-18, ICDM-16, Series Editor of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, and Advisory Board of member AI Magazine.

More details about Prof. Zhou can be found at his official page.

Honorary Members

Honorary members are past SC members but still actively make contribution and advice the SC.

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Randy GoebelHonorary Member

Randy Goebel

Honorary Member

Professor
University of Alberta, Canada

R.G. (Randy) Goebel is currently professor of Computing Science in the Department of Computing Science, adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, at the University of Alberta. He is also Fellow and co-founder of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii). He received the B.Sc. (Computer Science), M.Sc. (Computing Science), and Ph.D. (Computer Science) from the Universities of Regina, Alberta, and British Columbia, respectively.

Professor Goebel's theoretical work on abduction, hypothetical reasoning and belief revision is internationally well known; his recent research is focused on the formalization of visualization and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), especially in applications in autonomous driving, legal reasoning, and precision health. He has worked on optimization, algorithm complexity, systems biology, natural language processing, and automated reasoning.

Randy has previously held faculty appointments at the University of Waterloo, University of Tokyo, Multimedia University (Kuala Lumpur), Hokkaido University (Sapporo), visiting researcher engagements at National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo), DFKI (Germany), and NICTA (Australia); he is actively involved in collaborative research projects in Canada, Japan, Germany, France, the UK, and China.

More details about Prof. Goebel can be found at his official page.

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Geoff WebbHonorary Member

Geoff Webb

Honorary Member

Professor
Monash University, Australia

Professor Geoff Webb is an eminent and highly-cited data scientist. He was editor in chief of the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal, from 2005 to 2014. He has been Program Committee Chair of both ACM SIGKDD and IEEE ICDM, as well as General Chair of ICDM and member of the ACM SIGKDD Executive. He is a Technical Advisor to machine learning as a service startup BigML Inc and to recommender systems startup FROOMLE. He developed many of the key mechanisms of support-confidence association discovery in the 1980s. His OPUS search algorithm remains the state-of-the-art in rule search. He pioneered multiple research areas as diverse as black-box user modelling, interactive data analytics and statistically-sound pattern discovery. He has developed many useful machine learning algorithms that are widely deployed. His many awards include IEEE Fellow, the inaugural Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Science (2017) and the PAKDD Distinguished Research Contributions Award (2022).

More details about Prof. Webb can be found at his official page.

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Tu-Bao HoHonorary Member

Tu-Bao Ho

Honorary Member

Professor Emeritus
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

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Wai K. YeapHonorary Member

Wai K. Yeap

Honorary Member

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Mitsuru IshizukaHonorary Member

Mitsuru Ishizuka

Honorary Member

Professor Emeritus
The University of Tokyo, Japan

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Byoung-Tak ZhangHonorary Member

Byoung-Tak Zhang

Honorary Member

Professor
Seoul National University, Korea

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Hiroshi MotodaHonorary Member

Hiroshi Motoda

Honorary Member

Professor Emeritus
Osaka University, Japan

Hiroshi Motoda is Professor Emeritus of Osaka University and is now retired. He was a scientific advisor at AFOSR/AOARD (Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, US Air Force Research Laboratory) since 2006 till 2018, and worked as an international program officer. Before that, he was a professor at ISIR (Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research) of Osaka University since 1996 until 2006. Further before joining the university, he had been with Hitachi, Ltd. since 1967, participated in research on nuclear reactor core management, control and design of nuclear power reactors, expert systems for nuclear power plant diagnosis at the Central Research Laboratory (1967-1971), the Atomic Energy Research laboratory (1971-1978) and the Energy Research Laboratory (1978-1985), and on artificial intelligence, machine learning, knowledge acquisition, qualitative reasoning and diagrammatic reasoning at the Advanced Research Laboratory (1985-1995). He continued to work on machine learning and knowledge acquisition, and has extended his research to scientific knowledge discovery and data mining at Osaka University. At AOARD he had worked on social network analysis while funding basic research in Asian Countries and managing several tens of projects in computational intelligence. He was the principal investigator of the active mining project funded by MEXT (the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) that involved about 20 universities and research institutes (2001-2004). He received his Bs, Ms and PhD degrees, all in nuclear engineering from the University of Tokyo. He was on the board of trustee of JSSST (the Japan Society of Software Science and Technology), JSAI (the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence) and JCSS (the Japanese Cognitive Science Society), and on the scientific advisory board of Alberta Ingenuity Center of Machine Learning. He was the chair of SIG-KBS and SIG-FAI of JSAI, the chair of the SC (steering committee) of PAKDD (Pacific Asian Conference of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), DS (International Conference on Discovery Science), ACML (Asian Conference on Machine Learning), and on the editorial board of JSAI, JCSS and Knowledge Acquisition (Academic Press), IEEE Expert, Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (Springer), Advanced Engineering Informatics (Elsevier), International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (Elsevier), Intelligent Data Analysis: An International Journal (IOS Press) and International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (Springer). He is now an honorary member of the SC of PRICAI, ACML and DS, a life long member of the SC of PAKDD, and a member of the SC of DSAA (IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics). He received the best paper awards twice from Atomic Energy Society of Japan (1977, 1984), four times from JSAI (1989, 1992, 2000, 2018), the best research paper award for DSAA2014 (2014), the outstanding achievement awards from JSAI (2000), the distinguished contribution award for PAKDD (2006), PRICAI (2014) and ACML (2018), the outstanding contribution award from Web Intelligence Consortium (2008), He co-authored/co-edited four books on feature selection/extraction/construction. His book ``Fundamentals of Data Mining'' was awarded the 2007 Okawa Publishing Prize. He was a member of AESJ, ANS, AAAI, IEEE, JCSS, IPSJ and is a member of JSAI (Fellow).

More details about Prof. Motoda can be found at his personal page.