Prof. Fumito Masui
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Biography
Dr. Fumito Masui earned a BS in Science from Okayama University in 1990 and a PhD in Engineering from Hokkaido University in 2006. He is currently a professor in the Faculty of Engineering and the director of the Research Centre for Winter Sports Science at the Kitami Institute of Technology. He is also a visiting researcher at the Japan Institute of Sport Science. His work in curling informatics, tourism informatics and natural language processing has resulted in a number of publications, presentations and lectures.
Affiliations
Kitami Institute of Technology
Kitami, Japan
Research Center for Winter Sports Science
Honors and Awards
Best Paper Award
The Committee of the icSPORTS2024
Shimpei Aihara, Guanyu Chen, Riku Hara, Minori Nakagawa, Ayumi Ogasawara, Hitoshi Yanagi, Yoshinari Dynamics, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support icSPORTS - Volume 1, pp.22-33, 2024.11.21-22, Porto, Portugal
BICA 2019 Prize for Best Innovative Work
The Committee of the BICA (Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures)
Jagna Nieuważny, Fumito Masui, Michal Ptaszynski, Kenji Araki, Rafal Rzepka, Karol Nowakowski, Emotional and Moral Impressions Associated with Buddhist Religious Terms in Japanese Blogs -Preliminary Analysis, Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the BICA (Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures) 2019, AISC volume 948, Springer Link, pp. 387-392, 2019.08.16-18 (online 2019.07.17), Seattle, WA USA
Encouragement Award
Society of Tourism Informatics in Japan
Yasuhiro Yoshida, Fumito Masui, Michal Ptaszynski, Hiroshi Masui, Shunichi Kamemaru, Yasunari Maeda, Development and Evaluation of Dialogue System for Supporting Rural Tourism, 16th Annual Conference by Society of Tourism Informatics Japan, 2019.06.29, Yonago, Japan
Best Paper Award
Information Processing Society of Japan
Karol Nowakowski, Michal Ptaszynski, Fumito Masui, A proposal for a unified corpus of the Ainu language, Information Processing Society of Japan, NL237, 2018.09.25, Kitami, Japan
Best Paper Award
the Society of Tourism Informatics Japan
Fumito Masui，Tomohiro Ohe, Ryoya Sato, Michal Ptaszynski, Hiroshi Masui, Fumitaro Goto, Yasunari Maeda, Quantification and Analysis of the Accommodation Activity Level by Focusing on a Viewpoint of Providers (in Japanese), 11th Annual Conference of the Society of Tourism Informatics Japan, pp.14-15, 2014.06, Kashiwa, Japan
Technical Paper Award
the Committe of the Symposium of Information Processing on Hokkaido
Fumito Masui, Hiroki Ueno, Hitoshi Yanagi, Toward Curling Informatics - Development of Tactical Support System on Tablet Device, the Symposium of Information Processing on Hokkaido 2023, D-07, pp.109-116, 2013.10
Experience
Visiting Research Scientist
Japan Institute of Sports Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
01 Jul 2023 - present
Research Director
Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, Japan
01 Apr 2009 - present
University Lecturer
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
01 Apr 2013 - 01 Mar 2025
University Educator/Researcher
Mie University, Tsu, Japan
01 Apr 2000 - 01 Mar 2009
Visiting Research Scientist
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
01 Apr 2002 - 01 Mar 2007
Domestic Visiting Researcher
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
01 Aug 2004 - 01 Mar 2005
University Lecturer
Suzuka University of Medical Science, Suzuka, Japan
01 Apr 2001 - 01 Mar 2003
Research or Laboratory Scientist
Oki Electric Industry (Japan), Tokyo, Japan
01 Apr 1990 - 01 Mar 2000