Shojiro Nishio

Shojiro Nishio (西尾 章治郎, Nishio Shōjirō) is a Japanese computer scientist. He is the president of Osaka University.

Education and career

Nishio was a student at Kyoto University. He earned the Bachelor of Engineering in 1975, Master of Engineering in 1977, and Ph.D. in engineering in 1980. He was successively a faculty member at Kyoto University, a guest assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, a guest fellow at the Research Institute for High-degree Systems of British Columbia, and an assistant professor at Osaka University; he became a full professor in 1992.^[1] He was made a Distinguished Professor of the university in 2013.^[2]

Nishio has made contributions to data engineering, particularly to deductive and object-oriented databases, to knowledge discovery and to database system architecture for broadband networks and mobile computing environments. He is the co-author or co-editor of more than 50 books and more than 600 referred journal or conference papers on his research fields.^[1][3]

Awards and honors

Nishio received an Achievement Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) in 2001,^[4] and from the Funai Foundation for Information Technology in 2004.^[5] He received a Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) in 2010,^[6] from the Database Society of Japan in 2010,^[7] and from the IEICE in 2013.^[8]

Nishio was elected a fellow of the IPSJ in March 2002,^[9] of the IEICE in September 2004,^[10] and of the IEEE Computer Society in January 2012, for contributions to data and knowledge management in database systems.^[11][12]

In 2011 he won a Japanese Medal of Honor with purple ribbon for distinguished research achievement on information science.^[13]

Selected publications

• Nishio, S. (2000). "Opening up new vistas on advanced multimedia content processing". New Generation Computing 18 (4): 295. doi:10.1007/BF03037549. 
• Han, J.; Nishio, S.; Kawano, H.; Wang, W. (1998). "Generalization-based data mining in object-oriented databases using an object cube model". Data & Knowledge Engineering 25: 55. doi:10.1016/S0169-023X(97)00051-7. 
• Masuyama, S.; Ibaraki, T.; Nishio, S.; Hasegawa, T. (1987). "Shortest Semijoin Schedule for a Local Area Distributed Database System". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (5): 602. doi:10.1109/TSE.1987.233465. 

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