CURRICULUM VITAE

Name , Family name : Yano

Forenames: Hiroaki

Date of Birth: 9th December 1969

Nationality: Japanese

Present address: Department of Intelligent Interaction Technologies

University of Tsukuba

Tennoudai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, 305-8573 JAPAN

Education:

Ph.D.

March, 1997

University of Tsukuba

1988-1992 College of Engineering Sciences, University of Tsukuba

Awareded the degree of BE.

1992-1997 Doctral Program in Engineering, University of Tsukuba.

Awarded the degree of ME and PhD in 1994 and 1997. Work supervised by Professor Hiroo Iwata.

Research and professional experience:

1997-1999 Research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

1999-2006 Assistant professor in the Department of Intelligent Inter-action Technologies at the University of Tsukuba

2006-present Associate professor in the Department of Intelligent Inter-action Technologies at the University of Tsukuba

Membership of academic societies:

Virtual Reality Society of Japan

Human Interface Society

SICE

ACM

Awards:

VRSJ Outstanding Paper Award(2001,2003,2004)

Human Interface Society Best paper award (2003)

ISARC2006 BEST PAPER AWARD(2006)