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INAGAKI KyokoExecutive Vice-President, Kyoto University

Biography（As of September, 2023）

Mar 1978
B.Ed., Kyoto University
Mar 1981
M.Ed., Kyoto University
Mar 1983
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University
Apr 1983
Full-time Lecturer, Department of English, Teikyo Women’s Junior College
Apr 1985
Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Shiga University
Apr 1988
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Shiga University
Oct 1996
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Kyoto University
Apr 1998
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University
Apr 2005
Professor, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University
Apr 2015 – Mar 2017
Councilor, Education and Research Council, Kyoto University
Apr 2016
Professor, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University
Apr 2016 – Mar 2020
Faculty Consort Director, Division of Education, Kyoto University
Apr 2017 – Mar 2020
Dean, Graduate School of Education and Faculty of Education, Kyoto University
Oct 2020 – Present
Executive Vice-President, Kyoto University
Apr 2021 – Present
Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University

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KIZU YukoProfessor and Dean, Faculty and Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University

Biography（As of September, 2023）

Mar 1983
First Faculty of Letters, Waseda University
Mar 1988
Master’s Degree Program, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
Mar 1992
Doctoral Degree Program, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University (withdrawal)
Apr 1992 – Mar 1994
Research Associate, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University
Apr 1994 – Mar 1997
Senior Lecturer (Full-Time), Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts
Apr 1997 – Mar 1998
Associate Professor, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts
Apr 1998 – Mar 2012
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
Mar 2012
Doctor of Letters, Kyoto University
Apr 2012 – Present
Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
Apr 2022 – Present
Dean, Faculty and Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University

Awards and Honors

1993
Shinmura Izuru Research Incentive Award, Shinmura Izuru Foundation
1997
Rohoku Prize, Hashimoto Jun Memorial Foundation

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TACHIKAWA YasutoProfessor and Dean, Faculty and Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University

Biography（As of September, 2023）

Mar 1987
Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Mar 1989
Master’s Degree Program, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Apr 1990 – Mar 1996
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Apr 1996 – Mar 2007
Associate Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
Apr 2007 – Oct 2013
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Oct 2013 – Present
Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Apr 2023 – Present
Dean, Faculty and Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University

Awards and Honors

2008
Academic Award, Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science
2013
FY2012 Continuing International Contribution Award, Japan Society of Civil Engineers
2015
FY2014 Best Paper Award, Japan Society of Civil Engineers
2016
FY2015 Best Paper Award, Japan Society of Civil Engineers
2020
FY2019 Best Paper Award, Japan Society of Civil Engineers
2022
FY2021 Research Excellence Award, Japan Society of Civil Engineers

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KAWAHARA TatsuyaProfessor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

Biography（As of September, 2023）

Mar 1987
Department of Information Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Mar 1989
Master’s Degree Program, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Nov 1990
Research Associate, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Jun 1995
Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Apr 2003 – Present
Professor, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies and Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Apr 2020 – Mar 2023
Dean, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Fellow of IEEE
Secretary General of ISCA (International Speech Communication Association)
President of APSIPA (Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association)
Member of the Information Processing Society of Japan; Acoustical Society of Japan; Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers; Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence; and Association for Natural Language Processing
Associate Member of Science Council of Japan

Engaged in research on speech information processing, especially speech recognition and dialog systems.
Doctor of Engineering, Kyoto University

Awards and Honors

2012
The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

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UEMURA TadashiProfessor, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University

Biography（As of September, 2023）

Mar 1982
Division of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University
Mar 1984
Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Mar 1987
Ph.D., Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
May 1987
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco
May 1989
Research Associate, Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University
Apr 1995
Research Associate, Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Oct 1997 – Sep 2000
Research Member, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (concurrent post)
Apr 1999
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
Aug 1999
Professor, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University
Jan 2003 – Present
Associate Editor of Developmental Cell
May 2004 – Present
Professor, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
Jun 2010
President of the 43rd Annual Meeting for Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists 2010
Apr 2010 – Mar 2014
Science Adviser, Research Promotion Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2016 – 2019
Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), Council of Scientists (COS)
Oct 2016 – Present
Committee Member of Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)
Dec 2020
President of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (MBSJ2020 Online)
Apr 2021 – Mar 2023
Deputy Dean, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
Apr 2023 – Present
Director, the Center for Living Systems Information Science (CeLiSIS), Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
Member of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan; Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists; Japan Society for Cell Biology; and American Society for Cell Biology

Developmental biology. Recently engaged in research on the mechanism that governs the functions of living creatures from early development to aging and its dependence on the nutritional environment.
Doctor of Science, Kyoto University

Awards and Honors

2004
The 1st Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Prize “Studies on Genetic Programs of Cell Polarity Underlying Multicellular Organization”
2009
The 26th Inoue Prize for Science “Controlling Mechanisms of Cell Polarity That Support Functional Expression in Multicellular Systems”

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