Masaki Aono's ISO Activities

University Activities

Masaki Aono acted as a head of department of Computer Science and Engineering at Toyohashi University of Techinology for two years from April 2010 to March 2012. He is now a full professor at the same department, teaching object-oriented programming using C++ and Java (undergraduate, a quarter-year, respectively), Computer Architecture (undergraduate, a half-year course), Data Mining and Information Retrieval (graduate course, a quarter-year course)

ISO Activities

Masaki Aono has been an ISO SC24 Committee Member since 1996. He received a Standard Contribution Award from Information Technology Standards Commission of Japan (ITSCJ) in 2003.
He has attended SC24 annual meetings as a Japanese delegate of SC24/WG6 at Kyoto (1996), Orlando (1998), Paris (2000), Lake Tahoe (2001), London (2002), Breckenridge (2004), and has served as a HoD (Head of Delegate) Japan in Tokyo (2007). He also participated in SC24 meetings at London (2009), Rapid City (2011), Brussels (2012), Sydney (2013), Seattle (2014), London (2015), and Beijing (2016).
Academic Activities

Masaki Aono received the BS and MS degrees from the Department of Information Science from the University of Tokyo, the PhD degree from the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. He was with the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory from 1984 to 2003. In 2002 and 2003, he was a visiting teacher at Waseda University. He is currently a professor at the Graduate School of Computer Science and Engineering Department, Toyohashi University of Technology.

His research interests include text and data mining (a.k.a. data science) (including sentiment analysis, reputation analysis, time series data mining, clustering, annotation and captioning of texts and sentences to images, videos, and 3D shape models), and information retrieval for multimedia including texts, images, videos, and 3D shape models. Recently he has embarked on seeking deep learning applications for multi-modal data based on hand-crafted server machines with GPU (NVIDIA Tesla K20 and K40s) hardwares.

He is a member of the ACM and IEEE, JSAI (Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence), the Association for Natural Language Processing, IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan), IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), and DBSJ (Data Base Society of Japan).

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Masaki Aono's Activities