Yutaka Matsuo is a professor at Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1997, 1999, and 2002. He joined National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) from 2002 to 2007. He specializes in deep learning and web mining in the field of artificial intelligence.
He is one of the prominent researchers in the field of artificial intelligence in Japan. He has authored 100+ journal papers and 200+ international conference papers. He received the Best Paper Award from Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) in 2002, and Nagao Special Researcher Award from Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) in 2008. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence from 2012 to 2014. In 2005, he spent two years at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University.
- Chairperson, AI Strategy Council, Cabinet Office, 2023-present
- Member, Council of New Form of Capitalism Realization, Prime Minister’s Office, 2021-present
- External Board Director, SoftBank Group Corp., 2019-present
- President, Japan Deep Learning Association (JDLA), 2017-present
- Editor-in-Chief, (Journal of) New Generation Computing, 2013-present
- Associate Editor-in-Chief, (Journal of) New Generation Computing, 2017-2022
- Chair of ELSI committee, The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2014-2018
- Editor-in-Chief, Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2012-2014
- Associate Editor-in-Chief, Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2010-2012
- Editorial Board Member, Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2004-2014
- Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST), 2010-2014
- Track Chair, Web Mining Track, 25th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2016), April 2016
- Program committee, 24th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2015), May 2015
- Track Chair, Web Mining Track, 23rd World Wide Web Conference (WWW2014), April 2014
- Program committee, 22th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2013), April 2013
- Program committee, 21th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012), April 2012
- Program committee, 20th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2011), March 2011
- Program committee, 19th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010), April 2010
- Program committee, 18th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2009), April 2009
- Program committee, 17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), April 2008
- Program committee, Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2012), Feb 2012
- Program committee, Forth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2011), Feb 2011
- Program committee, 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012), November 2012
- Program committee, Sixth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), November 2007
- Program committee, 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11), November 2007
- Program committee, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2008), March 2008
- Program committee, The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom2009), August, 2009
- Program committee, The 2013 International Conference on Advanced in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM2013), 2013
- Program committee, The 2009 International Conference on Advanced in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM2009), July 2009
- Program committee, Third Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008), Dec 2008
- Program committee, The 2008 International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'08), Dec 2008
- Program committee, 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2007), May 2007
- Program committee, Workshop on Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge, at 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), May 2007
- Program committee, First International Workshop on Web Mining for E-commerce and E-services (WMEE2007), at IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'07), July 2007
- Program committee, Workshop on Emergent Intelligence on Networked Agents (WEIN' 07), at Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007), May 2007
- Program committee, Workshop on Emergent Intelligence on Networked Agents (WEIN' 06), at Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006), May 2006
- Program committee, 1st International Workshop on Agent Network Dynamics and Intelligence(ANDI05), at 19th Annual Conference of JSAI (JSAI2005), June 2005
- Co-organizer, 3rd International Workshop on Chance Discovery, at 10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction (HCI2003), June, 2003
- Co-organizer, Chance Discovery invited session, at Sixth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES2002), September, 2002
Yutaka Matsuo
matsuo@weblab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656
Tel: +81-3-5841-7718, Fax: +81-3-5841-7718