NISHIO Hirokazu
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Who I am
I'm a Japanese researcher and software engineer, working in Cybozu Labs Inc.
e-mail: www"at-mark"nishiohirokazu"dot"org. Feel free to contact me!
I have several sites in English to motivate me to learn English. Please visit following links:
- Blogger: NISHIO Hirokazu's blog is my blog on technical issues in English.
- Vox: Nishio Hirokazu's blog in English is my blog on not-technical issues, but to keep motivation for writing miscellaneous things is difficult...
- Digg: Digg / nishio. To tell the truth I didn't understand the culture in Digg.
- iKnow: iKnow! is my page in iKnow. iKnow is a SNS for those who learning English. I wrote some blog in it.
- del.icio.us: nishio's bookmarks on del.icio.us. This is my public bookmarks.
- facebook: facebook.
- MySpace: MySpace.
- Twitter: Twitter / nishio_en is my Twitter account in English. But hardly updates.
If you can read Japanese, please visit following links.
- Hatena Diary: Hatena Diary is my blog on both technical and not-technical issues in Japanese.
- Twitter: Twitter / nishio is my Twitter account in Japanese.
- mixi: [mixi] is my page in mixi. Mixi is the biggest SNS in Japan.
- Jython book: This is my first book about Jython(Python interpreter on Java VM.) To see details, please visit here.
About My Name
I wrote this section for non-Japanese people. My name is "NISHIO Hirokazu" and "NISHIO" is the family name.
All Japanese people say their family name first when they are speaking Japanese language,
but unfortunately many people are misunderstanding that we must say given name first when we speak English.
My family name "NISHIO" is made of two characters "NISHI"(west) and "O"(tail). "O" has same origin with "WO"(fish) so my ancestor might be a fisher. "NISHIO" is pronounces like "knee see awe" but shorter. My given name "Hirokazu" is made of two characters "HIRO" and "KAZU". "HIRO" is pronounced like a hero. It means "big" and "calmful". (Wiktionary). "KAZU" is pronounced like a cousin without "n". It means "peace" and "harmony". (Wiktionary).
Formal profile
NISHIO Hirokazu was born in 1981. He received B.Sc. degree from Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in 2004. He received a degree of doctor from NAIST in 2006.[PDF]
He wan been a Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from 2005. His research interests include Visualization of Large-scale data obtained from biological experiments. He is a member of Information Processing Society of Japan and Japan Society of Artificial Intelligence.
History
- 1981-07-23 to now I am living in the world.
- 1994-04/1997-03 Nada junior high school. (graduated)
- 1997-04/2000-03 Nada high school. (graduated)
- 2000-04/2003-03 Kyoto University (Dept. of Infomatics and Computer Science)
- 2002-11/2003-03 Information-Technoogy Promotion Agency, Japan(IPA) Exploratory Software Project (Exploratory Youth). I had a chance to drive my project on visualization of genome sequence.
- 2003-04/2004-03 Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST), Graduate School of Information Science Master's cource.(graduated)
- 2004-04/2006-03 NAIST Doctor's course. Doctor of Science(PDF)
- 2004-05/2005-02 NAIST teaching assistant
- 2004-08 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) IT cultivation of human resources project, IT School 2004 tutor
- 2005-04/2006-03 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow (DC2)
- 2005-08 MEXT IT School 2005 tutor
- 2006-04/2007-03 JSPS Research Fellow (PD)
- 2006-05/2007-03 Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
- 2006-08 MEXT ICTSchool 2006 tutor
- 2007-04 to now Cybozu Lab, Inc. Software Engineer.
English papers
- GIW2002 "Genome Visualization by Isometric Projection Focused on Replication Origins and Termini, and Genome Instability" Nishio, H., Wada, K., Wada, Y., Fukushima, A., Ikemura, T., Mori, H., Oshima, T., Kanaya, S. Genome Visualization by Isometric Projection Focused on Replication Origins and Termini, and Genome Instability. Genome Informatics 13: 449-450 (2002)
- WSOM2003 "Visualization of Gene Classification Based on Expression Profile Using BL-SOM" Nishio, H., Amin, M., Sato, T., Wada, K., Wada, Y., Minato, K., Kobayashi, K., Ogasawara, N., and Kanaya, S. (2003) Visualization of gene classification based on expression profile using BL-SOM., Proc. of WSOM03, 101-106.
- RECOMB2004 "Suitability of Spherical SOM for Gene Expression Analysis" Nishio, H., Wada, K., Wada, Y., Amin, M., Kanaya, S. Suitability of Spherical SOM for Gene Expression Analysis. Proc. of RECOMB2004
- SCI2004 "Gene classification Based on Expression Profile using BL-SOM: Suitability assessment of multivariate gene expression data to Spherical and Plain SOM by N-measure"Nishio, H., Altaf-Ul-Amin, M., Nakamura, Y., Abe, T., Kinouchi, M., Ikemura, T., Kobayashi, K., Ogasawara, N., Kanaya, S. Gene classification Based on Expression Profile using BL-SOM: Suitability assessment of multivariate gene expression data to Spherical and Plain SOM by N-measure. SCI2004
- WSOM2005 "Spherical SOM with arbitrary number of neurons and measure of suitability"
- IPSJ TOM "Spherical SOM and arrangement of neurons using helix on sphere" IPSJ Transaction on Mathematical Modeling and Its Application, Vol.47 No.SIG1 (TOM 14) pp. 56-60
Awards
- Yamauchi Award, Programming Symposium, Infomation Processing Society of Japan, 2003/1
- Super Creater[PDF], Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan, 2003/7
- Yamauchi Award, Programming Symposium, Infomation Processing Society of Japan, 2004/1
- IPSJ Digital Courier FUNAI WAKATE SHOUREISHOU, FUNAI FOUNDATION FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 2007.