About Takahiro Yakoh

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Takahiro Yakoh was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1965. He received the B.S. degree in instrumentation and measurement engineering from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Keio University in 1989 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Graduate School of Science and Technology at Keio University in 1991 and 1995, respectively. 1998, he joined the Faculty of Science and Technology at Keio University as an Instructor, where he had been an Associate Professor since 2004. In 2023, he joined the Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University, as a Professor. His research interests include coding theory, computer network, human-computer interaction, computer vision, signal processing, machine learning, and digital transformation.　

Affiliation and Position

Professor, Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University (SDM Voice)
Project Leader, AI and Advanced Programming Consortium, Keio University
Project Member, Keio AI Center, Keio University

Education

March 1989 B.E. in Instrumentation and Measurement Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University
March 1991 M.S. in Computer Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University
March 1995 Ph.D. in Computer Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University

Employment

April 1994 Nippon Kokan Ltd. (NKK) 
April 1996 MediaNet Division, Keio University
April 1998 Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University
April 2023 Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University

Concurrent Employment

2002-2004 Instructor, University of Tokyo, Japan
2008 Guest Professor, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
2022-2023 Specially Appointed Professor, Shinshu University, Japan

Certification

February 2020 A second-class Electrician