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CURRICULUM VITAE
1. NAME:
Isao HARA
2. ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:
Robot Software Platform Research Team
Robot Innovation Research Center
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST),JAPAN
3. ADDRESS:
Interaction Modeling Resaech Group, Intelligent Systems Research Institute
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
AIST Tsukuba Central2 1-1 Umezono 1-Chome Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken 305-8568 Japan
4. DATE OF BIRTH:
20th May, 1965.
5. NATIONALITY:
JAPANESE
6. EDUCATIONAL:
1993 Doctor of Philosophy, Kyushu University
Major: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science/Robotics
Thesis: "A Study of an Assembly Planning including Manipulations" (in Japanese)
1990 Master of Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University
Major: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science/Robotics
Thesis: "Assembly Planning System based on Object-Oriented Consept" (in Japanese)
1988 Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University
Major: Electrical Engineering
7. CAREER HISTORY:
Apr. 1993 - Mar. 2000 Research Scientist
Electrotechnical Laboratory, AIST, MITI, Japan
Apr. 2000 - Mar. 2001 Senior Research Scientist
Electrotechnical Laboratory, AIST, MITI, Japan
Apr. 2001 - Mar. 2010 Senior Research Scientist
Information Technology Research Institute,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST), Japan
Apr. 2010 - Mar.2014 Senior Research Scientist
Intelligent Systems Research Institute,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST), Japan
Apr. 2014 - Present Senior Research Scientist
Robot Innovation Research Center,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST), Japan
8. MAJOR PULICATIONS:
Fully Refereed Papers:
1. H.Hirukawa, I.Hara, T.Hori, "Online Robots",
Betond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots edited by K.Goldberg and R.Siegwart,
The MIT Press(ISBN: 0262072254), Oct. 2001.
2. H.Asoh, N.Vlassis, Y.Motomura, F.Asano, I.Hara, S.Hayamizu, K.Itou, T.Kurita, T.Matsui,
R.Bunschoten and B.Krose, "Jijo-2:An Office Robot That Communicates and Learns",
the Sept/Oct issue of IEEE Inteligent Systems, pp46-55, 2001.
3. Y.Motomura, I.Hara, K.Itou, H.Asoh, T.Sato,
"Task, Situation and User Models for Personal Robots",
IJCAI 2001 workshop on Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robotics, 2001.
4. N.Vlassis, Y.Motomura, I.Hara, H.Asoh, and T.Matsui,
"Edge-based features from omnidirectional images for robot localization",
In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, May 2001.
5. H.Hirukawa, I.Hara,
"Web-Top Robotics: Using the World Wide Web as a Platform for Building Robotic Systems",
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Vol. 7, No.2, June 2000.
6. Y.Motomura, I.Hara,
"Bayesian Network Leaning System based on Neural Networks",
AFSS2000, International Symposium on Theory and Applications of Soft Computing, 2000.
7. I.Hara, A.Zelinsky, T.Matsui, H.Asoh, T.Kurita, M.Tanaka and K.Hotta,
"Communicative Functions to Support Human Robot Cooperation", Proc. of IROS'99,
pp.683-688, 1999.
8. Y.Motomura, I.Hara, K.Tanaka,
"Cooperation among Situated Agents in Learning Intelligent Robots",
Multi-agent and Cooperation Computation workshop'99,1999.
9. Y.Motomura, I.Hara,
"BAYONET: Probabilistic Reasoning System with Learning from Database",
Annual conference of JSAI'98, 1999.
10. I.Hara, @Teleopearion System on the Internet",
Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan(in Japanese), Vol.17 No.4, pp477-480, May 1999.
11. Y.Motomura,I.Hara,H.Asoh and T.Matsui,
"Baysian Network that Learns Conditional Probabilities by Neural Network",
Proc. of Int.Conf. on Neural Infomation Processing,pp.584-587, November 1997.
12. H.Asoh,S.Hayamizu,I.Hara,Y.Motomura,S.Akaho and Matsui,
"Information Integration of the Office-Conversant Mobile Robot Jijo-2",
Proc.of Int.Conf. on Neural Infomation Processing, pp.758-761 November 1997.
13. H.Hirukawa,I.Hara,T.Matsui,S.Hirai,K.Konaka and S.Kawamura,
"Proposal of the World Wide Roboics
-- Part 1: An Offline Teleopration System on an Enhanced VRML --",
Proc. of Robotics Symp.,pp.108-113, August 1997. (in Japanese)
14. I.Hara,H.Hirukawa,H.Asoh,S.Hirai and T.Matsui,
"The World Wide Robotics
-- Part 2: A Teleopration System on a WWW brouser --",
Proc. of Robotics Symp.,pp.114-119, August 1997. (in Japanese)
15. H.Asoh,S.Hayamizu,I.Hara,Y.Motomura,S.Akaho and T.Matsui,
"Socially Embedded Learning of Office-Conversant Robot Jijo-2",
Proc. of Int.Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, pp.880-885, August 1997.
16. T.Matsui,H.Asoh and I.Hara,
"An Event-Driven Architecture for Controlling Behaviors of
the Office Conversant Mobile Robot, Jijo-2",
Proc. of Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automations,pp.3367-3371 April 1997.
17. H.Asoh,Y.Motomura,I.Hara,S.Akaho,S.Hayamizu and T.Matsui,
"Combining probabilistic map and dialog for robust life-long office navigation",
Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int.Conf.on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp.807-812,November 1996.
18. H.Asoh,Y.Motomura,I.Hara,S.Akaho,S.Hayamizu and T.Matsui,
"Acquiring probabilistic map with dialog-based learning",
Proc. of An International Workshop on Learning for Autonomous Robots,pp.11-18, May 1996.
19.Y.Kuniyoshi,Y.Motomura,K.Hiraki,I.Hara,H.Matsubara,H.Asoh,S.Akaho,T.Suehiro,
"Multiple Autonomous Robot Simulator and Information Integration Research",
Proc.of RWC Joint Symposium, April 1995.
20. H.Matsubara,K.Hiraki,Y.Motomura,Y.Kuniyoshi,I.Hara and H.Asoh,
"An Experimental Approach to Coorperative Learning of Multi-Agent Systems",
Technical Reports of AAAI Pres:Lessons Learned, May 1995.
21. I.Hara and T.Nagata,
"Robot Assembly Planning Using Contract Nets",
Proc.of IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, July 1993.
9.SPECIALISED FIELD:
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
10.AWARDS:
April 1996, Member of the Sub-committee (R-Cube Working Group) of Frendly Network Robotics Project
by Japans Ministry of Science and Technology (MITI) for 1 year.
April 1997, Member of the Sub-committee of Frendly Network Robotics Project
by Japans Ministry of Science and Technology (MITI) for 1 year.
April 1997, Member of the Committee of Software Platform Taskforce for 1 year.
April 2000, Member of the Local Arrangements Committee of IEEE Conference on IROS 2000
REFEREE for the following Journals and Conferences:
Journal of Robot Socity of Japan
1998 IEEE Conference on Robotics & Automation
1997 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
1993,1994,2000 IEEE Conference on Intelligent Robotics Systems (IROS)
11.SUMMARY OF WORK ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Recent Presentations:
Demonstration of the Jijo-2 Robot at RWC2001 Final Exhibition and Symposia, October 2001
"Situated Multi-Agent Architecture for an Autonomous Robot",
Robotics Symposia of Robot Sociey of Japan, March 2000
Demonstration of the Remote Jijo-2 Robot Navigation
at Real World Computing (RWC) Symposium 97,January 1997
"Teleoprating System on World Wide Robotics - A teleoperating system with Virtual Reality -",
Annual Conference of Robot Society of Japan, Sepetember 1997.