Tsunenori Mine received a B.E. degree in Computer Science and Computer Engineering in 1987 and a M.E. and a D.E. degree in Information Systems in 1989 and 1993, respectively, all from Kyushu University, Japan. He is an Associate Professor at Department of Advanced Information Technology, Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University. His research interests include developing real services using artificial intelligence techniques, in particular, natural language processing, text mining, data mining, recommendation, and multi-agent systems. He received a best paper award from the Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) for his work on a parallel parsing algorithm in 1993 and an IPSJ Activity Contribution Award in 2014. He is currently leading several joint research projects with several companies and academic institutions to develop technologies and theories that are both practical and academically novel.