Prof. Yuji Matsumoto
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Japan

Prof. Yuji Matsumoto is currently a team leader at RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP). He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in information science from Kyoto University in 1979 and in 1990, respectively. He joined Machine Inference Section of Electrotechnical Laboratory in 1979. He has been an academic visitor at Imperial College of Science and Technology, the deputy chief of First Laboratory at ICOT, an associate professor at Kyoto University, and a professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology. His main research interests are natural language understanding and machine learning. He is an ACL fellow and a fellow of the Information Processing Society of Japan.