Yasushi Sakurai

• Contact Information
  The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR)
  Osaka University Mihogaoka 8-1, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan yasushi [AT] sanken [dot] osaka-u [dot] ac [dot] jp

• Education
  • Ph.D., Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (1996 -- 1999)
  • M.E., Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (1995 -- 1996)
  • B.E., Department of Electrical Engineering, Doshisha University (1987 -- 1991)

• Professional Experience
  • Director, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, ISIR, Osaka University (Current position from 2020)
  • Professor, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University (Current position from 2019)
  • Senior Program Officer, Research Center for Science Systems, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (2022 -- 2025)
  • Professor, Kumamoto University (2013-2019)
  • Visiting researcher, Carnegie Mellon University (2004 -- 2005)
  • Research and development, NTT (1991 -- 2013)

• Research Interests
  • Similarity search and pattern discovery
  • Time-series analysis and forecasting
  • Sensor data processing
  • Web mining
  Also see Data Mining Group at Osaka University

• Publications

• Tutorials
  • Yasushi Sakurai, Yasuko Matsubara, Christos Faloutsos: `` Smart Analytics for Big Time-series Data'', ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Tutorial, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, August 2017.
  • Yasushi Sakurai, Yasuko Matsubara, Christos Faloutsos: `` Mining Big Time-series Data on the Web'', International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Tutorial, pp. 1029-1032, Montreal, Canada, April 2016.
  • Yasushi Sakurai, Yasuko Matsubara, Christos Faloutsos: `` Mining and Forecasting of Big Time-series data'', ACM SIGMOD Conference, Tutorial, pp. 919-922, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, May/June 2015.

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• Software

• Professional Activities