Shojiro Nishio

Shojiro Nishio
Nationality Japanese
Fields Data engineering
Institutions Osaka University
Alma mater Kyoto University
Notable awards Purple Ribbon Medals of Honor (Japan)
Website
www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/~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

References

  1. 1 2 "Home page for Shojiro NISHIO". Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  2. "Ten winners of the title "Osaka University Distinguished Professor" announced". Osaka University. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  3. Shojiro Nishio at DBLP Bibliography Server
  4. "歴代業績賞受賞者一覧". 電子情報通信学会. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  5. "第4回 FFIT学術賞受賞者". 公益財団法人船井情報科学振興財団. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  6. "IPSJ Contribution Award - Information Processing Society of Japan". Information Processing Society of Japan. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  7. "授賞 - 日本データベース学会". 日本データベース学会. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  8. "Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award 2013". Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE). Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  9. "Fellow - Information Processing Society of Japan". Information Processing Society of Japan. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  10. "西尾 章治郎 - フェロー称号贈呈者". 電子情報通信学会. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  11. "81 IEEE-CS Members Elevated to Fellow • IEEE Computer Society". IEEE. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  12. "2012 New Fellows - IEEE Tokyo Section Fellows". IEEE. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  13. "Osaka University Professors NISHIO and FUKUZUMI each win a Medal of Honor with purple ribbon". Osaka University. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
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