Personnel Information

写真a

Kawai Akira


Title

Associate Professor

Field

Field of Data Science

Mail Address

E-mail address

Laboratory Phone number

+81-749-27-1069

Laboratory Fax number

+81-749-27-1069

Homepage URL

http://www.kawai-lab.com

Special Affairs

Weihua Sun

Profile

He received his B.E., M.E., and Ph.D degrees in information and computer sciences from Osaka University in 2003, 2005, and 2008, respectively. He was an Assistant Professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology from 2008 to 2013 and at Osaka University Cybermedia center from 2013 to 2014. He is currently an associate professor of Shiga University. His research areas include vehicular communication and mobile computing. He is a member of IPSJ, IEICE and IEEE/CS.
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Research Interests 【 display / non-display 】

  • Information Science (Computer Networks)

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Graduating School 【 display / non-display 】

  • Osaka University， Faculty of Engineering Science， Department of Information Science

    University， 2003.03， Graduated， Japan

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Graduate School 【 display / non-display 】

  • Osaka University， Graduate School, Division of Information Science， Computer Science

    Doctor's Course， 2008.03， Other， Japan

  • Osaka University， Graduate School, Division of Information Science， Computer Science

    Doctor's Course， 2005.03， Other， Japan

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Degree 【 display / non-display 】

  • Ph.D (Information Science)， Computer Science， Osaka University， Coursework， 2008.03

  • Master (Information Science)， Computer Science， Osaka University， Coursework， 2005.03

  • Bachelor， Engineering， Osaka University， Coursework， 2003.03

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Campus Career 【 display / non-display 】

  • Shiga University Faculty of Data science，Associate Professor， 2017.04 - Now

  • Shiga University Faculty of Economics，Associate Professor， 2014.04 - 2017.03

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External Career 【 display / non-display 】

  • Osaka University, Cybermedia Center, Project Assistant Professor， Assistant professor， 2013.04 - 2014.03

  • Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Information Science, Assistant Professor， Assistant professor， 2008.04 - 2013.03

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Association Memberships 【 display / non-display 】

  • Information Processing Society of Japan， 2006.02 - Now

  • IEEE ( The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. )， 2009.04 - Now

  • The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers， 2016.10 - Now

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Research Areas 【 display / non-display 】

  • Intelligent Transportation System

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Qualification acquired 【 display / non-display 】

  • Fundamental Information Engineer/Information Processing Engineer, Class 2

  • Microsoft Recognition Engineer (MCP (Excluding MCSE))

  • Microsoft Recognition Engineer (MCSE)

  • MCDBA

  • MCSD

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Research Career 【 display / non-display 】

  • The development of a VR simulator System for promoting traffic safety awareness， 2025.04 - 2026.03

    Traffic safety, VR, simulator，Individual

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Papers 【 display / non-display 】

  • GNN-Enhanced Multimodal Fusion with Contrastive Learning for Smart Health-Oriented Recommendation， Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-2025)， 2025.08, Ryutaro Matsuoka, Keito Inoshita, Xiaokang Zhou, Zhigao Zheng, Akira Kawai, Katsutoshi Yada

    Research paper (international conference proceedings)， Multiple Authorship

  • KDDA: A Knowledge-Driven Domain and Diversity Alignment Framework for Emotion Data Generation with Large Language Models， Proceedings of 8th International Conference Activity and Behavior Computing， 2026.03, Keito Inoshita, Hayato Tomisu, Xiaokang Zhou, Akira Kawai, Katsutoshi Yada

    Research paper (international conference proceedings)， Multiple Authorship

  • Driving Risks and Behavior by Speed Zone， Proceedings of 2025 IEEE14th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics， 2025.09, Yoshihiro Niimi, Akira Kawai

    Research paper (international conference proceedings)， Multiple Authorship

    Authorship：Corresponding author  

  • Poster: A Proposal to Detect Driving Danger Signs Using Probe Data， proceedings of 2025 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC2025)， 2025.06, Akira Kawai, Asuya Saakioka, Yoshihiro Niimi

    Research paper (international conference proceedings)， Multiple Authorship

    Authorship：Lead author  

  • Multi-Stage Evolutionary Model Merging with Meta Data Driven Curriculum Learning for Sentiment-Specialized Large Language Modeling， proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (IEEE DSS) (p.58 - 65) ， 2024.12, Keito Inoshita, Xiaokang Zhou, Akira Kawai

    Research paper (international conference proceedings)， Multiple Authorship

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Books 【 display / non-display 】

  • Data Science Data Structure and Algorithm, Gakujutsu tosho shuppan-sha co., ltd., 2018.11, Akira Kawai, Takaaki Umedu, Masayoshi Takayanagi, Osamu Ichikawa

    Textbook, survey, introduction，Session 2.5, 3.2-3.3, 4.2-4.3, 5.2-5.4, 6, 7, Joint author, Informatics / Software

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Presentations 【 display / non-display 】

  • ， 2025.11，2025.11.27， Driving Risks and Behavior by Speed Zone， Oral presentation (invited, special)

  • ITS80, Domestic presentation， 2020.03， A Survay and Analysis on Driving Stress， Oral presentation (general)

  • The 10th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON2019), International presentation， 2019.10， A Physical Strength Measurement and Analysis System for Elderly People Using Motion Sensors， Oral presentation (general)

  • Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, and Mobile Symposium 2019, Domestic presentation， 2019.07， A Physical Condition Measurement Method for Elderly People Using Motion Sensor， Oral presentation (general)

  • Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, and Mobile Symposium 2019, Domestic presentation， 2019.07， A Proposal of Requirement Definition and Judgment Chart for Road Rage， Oral presentation (general)

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Awards 【 display / non-display 】

  • Best Paper Award, 2025.08， Award from international society, conference, symposium, etc.，IEEE

  • IEEE Best Paper Award, 2024.12， Award from international society, conference, symposium, etc.，IEEE

  • Best Presenter Award, 2019.10， Award from international society, conference, symposium, etc.，IEEE

  • IPSJ/IEEE-CS Young Computer Researcher Award, 2018.07， International academic award (Japan or overseas)，IEEE / IPSJ Joint

  • Outstanding Research Achievement and Contribution to IC-LYCS 2018 Invited Presentation., 2018.02， Award from international society, conference, symposium, etc.，Asia Pacific Society for Computing and Information Technology

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Research Grants & Projects 【 display / non-display 】

  • ，Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)，2019.04 - 2023.03

  • ，Joint researchJoint research，Collaboration in Japan，2018.04 - 2019.03

  • ，Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B)Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B)，2016.04 - 2018.03

  • ，Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity start-upGrant-in-Aid for Research Activity start-up，2014.04 - 2016.03

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Preferred joint research theme 【 display / non-display 】

  • 【キーワード】高度交通システム／車車間通信／安全運転支援／高度ナビゲーション／情報収集と散布／シミュレーション

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Charge of on-campus class subject 【 display / non-display 】

  • データサイエンス実践価値創造演習Ⅱ，2026.10 - 2027.03

  • データサイエンス上級実践価値創造卒業演習Ⅱ，2026.10 - 2027.03

  • データサイエンス上級実践価値創造卒業演習Ⅰ，2026.04 - 2026.09

  • データサイエンス実践価値創造演習Ⅰ，2026.04 - 2026.09

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Media Coverage 【 display / non-display 】

  • 2025.04.12

  • 2025.02.24

  • 2023.07.30

  • 2023.02.02

  • 2022.04.21

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