Akira Maeda (前田亮)

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Akira Maeda is a professor at the College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Library and Information Science from University of Library and Information Science (ULIS) in 1995 and 1997, respectively, and received Ph.D. degree in Engineering from Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in 2000. He has visited Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) from October 2000 through March 2001 as a postdoctoral visiting scholar. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher of the CREST program, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) from April 2001 through March 2002. He was a visiting professor at King's College London from September 2011 through September 2012. His research interests include digital libraries, digital humanities, information retrieval, and multilingual information processing.

publications

research activities

professional service

2003 International Symposium on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Communities in Networked Information Society (DLKC'04) Program Committee member
2006 The 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL2006) Local Arrangement Co-Chair, Session Chair, and Program Committee member
2007 The 10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL2007) Program Committee member
2008 The 11th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2008) Program Committee member and Session Chair
2008- International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence Editorial Review Board member
2009 The Second International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT2009) Session Chair
2009 The Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP2009) Session Co-Organizer of "Invited Session on Digital Archives and Digital Heritages"
2009 The 9th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2009) Reviewer
2010 The 14th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL2010) Program Committee member
2010 The Sixth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2010) Program Committee member
2011 The 13th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2011) Program Committee member
2011 The 11th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2011) Program Committee member
2011 The Second International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture and Computing 2011) External Reviewer
2011- IPSJ Transactions on Databases (TOD) Editorial Board member
2011 The Seventh Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2011) Program Committee member
2011 Digital Humanities 2012 (DH2012) Reviewer
2012 The 12th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2012) Program Committee member
2012 The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL2012) Program Committee member
2012 The 14th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2012) Program Committee member
2012 Digital Humanities 2013 (DH2013) Reviewer
2013 The 13th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2013) International Program Committee member
2013 The International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture and Computing 2013) Program Co-Chair
2013 The Fourth International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL2013) Program Committee member
2013 The 15th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2013) Program Committee member
2013 Digital Humanities 2014 (DH2014) Reviewer
2014 The 14th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2014) International Program Committee member
2014 The 16th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2014) Program Committee member
2014 Digital Humanities 2015 (DH2015) Reviewer
2015 The 2015 4th ICT International Student Project Conference (ICT-ISPC2015) Program Committee member
2015 The 15th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2015) International Program Committee member
2015 The International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture and Computing 2015) Program Co-Chair and Session Chair
2015 Digital Humanities 2016 (DH2016) Reviewer
2016 The 16th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2016) International Program Committee member
2016 The 18th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2016) Publication Chair and Program Committee member
2016 Digital Humanities 2017 (DH2017) Reviewer
2017 The 17th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2017) International Program Committee member
2017 The International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture and Computing 2017) Program Co-Chair and Session Chair
2017 The 19th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2017) Program Committee member
2017 Digital Humanities 2018 (DH2018) Reviewer
2018 The 18th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2018) International Program Committee member
2018 The 20th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2018) Program Committee member
2018 The 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp2019) Program Committee member
2019 The 19th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2019) International Program Committee member
2019 The 21st International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2019) Program Committee Co-Chair
2020 The 22nd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2020) Publicity Co-chair
2021 The 23rd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2021) Publicity Co-chair
2021 The 6th International Workshop on Computational History (HistoInformatics 2021) Program Committee member
2022 The 24th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2022) Publicity Co-chair
2023 The 25th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2023) Publicity Co-chair

awards and honors

1999 IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) Best Paper Award (first author)
2006 Best Presentation Paper Award, International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions 2006 (ICITST-2006) (co-author)
2008 Best Paper Award, The 2008 IAENG International Conference on Internet Computing and Web Services (ICICWS'08) (co-author)
2011 IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Senior Member
2012 Best Student Paper Award, The 2012 IAENG International Conference on Internet Computing and Web Services (ICICWS'12) (co-author)
2012 Best Student Paper Award, The 2012 IAENG International Conference on Data Mining and Applications (ICDMA'12) (co-author)
2013 Best Project Report Award, The 13th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2013) (co-author)
2013 Best Student Paper Award, The 2013 IAENG International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Technologies 2013 (ICIMT'13) (co-author)
2013 Certificate of Merit (Student), The 2013 IAENG International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Technologies 2013 (ICIMT'13) (co-author)
2013 Best Poster Award Bronze Prize, PNC/ECAI & Jinmoncom (IPSJ SIG-CH) Joint Meetings 2013 (co-author)
2018 Best Student Paper Award, The 2018 IAENG International Conference on Internet Computing and Web Services (ICICWS'18) (co-author)
2021 Best Student Paper Award, The 2021 International Conference of Computational Statistics and Data Engineering (ICCSDE'21) (co-author)

Akira Maeda 前田亮
Professor
College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan Utniversity

Akira Maeda (前田 亮)