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Dr. Masahito Hirakawa graduated from Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Japan in 1979, and received his M.E. and D.E. degrees from Hiroshima University, Japan in 1981 and 1984, respectively. He became a Research Associate of Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) at Hiroshima University on completion of his doctoral study, and an Associate Professor in 1991. He has been a professor at Shimane University since 2002. He was a director of General Information Processing Center from 2004 through 2007, Shimane University Library and a council member of the university from 2007 to 2011, and Center for Educational Research and Development from 2014 to 2019.
He joined the Information Systems Research Project at the Computer Science Department of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle in summer of 1982. He was a visiting researcher at FOA (National Defense Research Institute), Linkoping, Sweden, in summer of 1990. From September 1999 to March 2000, he visited the VIP (Visual Information Processing) laboratory at University of Florence, as a Monbusho (Japanese Ministry of Education) research scholar.
He was a principal investigator of the ARES project organized in the early 80's, where a relational database system capable of accepting ambiguous queries was developed. After that, he was involved in a project for developing a multimedia database system based on an object-oriented data model named MORE. In addition, he directed the HI-VISUAL project of developing an iconic programming system, which was known as one of the pioneering works in this area. His interests include virtual/augmented reality, multimodal interfaces, e-learning system, and multimedia computing.
He received Meritorious Service Award in 1996 and Golden Core Member recognition in 1997 both from IEEE Computer Society. He also received the Most Influential Paper Award from IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing in 2008. He was awarded the Outstanding Research in Shimane University in 2009 and Section Contribution Award from IEEE Hiroshima Section in 2017. He is a senior member of IEEE.
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