Researchers from Kansai University

Job Title, Affiliation	Name	Research Themes/in charge	HPLinks
Director of Data Mining Laboratory Professor, Faculty of Commerce	Katsutoshi Yada	Development of platform/ In-store experiments (Supervisor)	website
Professor, Faculty of Commerce	Takaharu Araki	Application of statistics and mathematical model	website
Professor, Faculty of Commerce	Tomoko Kawakami	Consumer behavior model; Hypothesis testing	website
Associate Professor, Faculty of Commerce	Kazuhiro Kishiya	Advertisement effect model and framework
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Commerce	Takanobu Nakahara	Improvement of data mining/Algorithm	website
Professor, Faculty of Informatics	Hiroshi Koga	Testing of organizational theory for strategic data application	website

Researchers from Other Universities/Institutes

Job Title, Affiliation	Name	Research Themes/in charge	HPLinks
Professor, The University of Tokyo	Yukio Ohsawa	Visualization of customer movement data	website
Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics	Takeaki Uno	Model construction of multi-dimensional time series data	website
Professor, Osaka University	Takashi Washio	Time-series modeling of customer behavior using machine learning	website
Associate Professor, Osaka University	Naohiro Matsumura	Model construction of in-store customer communications	website
Assistant Professor, Osaka University	Kohei Ichikawa	Application of distributed processing technology; Development of platform	website
Associate Professor, Columbia University	Oded Netzer	Modeling for advertisement effects	website

Visiting Researchers

Job Title, Affiliation	Name	Research Themes/in charge	HPLinks
Professor, Columbia University	Rajeev Kohli	Development of marketing models	website
Professor, Kyoto University	Naoki Katoh	Knowledge discovery from purchase history data	website

Adjunct Researchers

Job Title, Affiliation	Name	Research Themes/in charge	HPLinks
Post-doctoral Fellow,Nihon University,Population Research Institute	Kohei Kubota	Data analysis based on the knowledge discovery from applied economics
Associate Professor, Chiba Institute of Technology	Motoi Iwashita	Information Systems/Data Mining
Assistant Professor,Ritsumeikan University	Kholod Marina	Applications of Database Marketing
Lecturer, Shijonawate Gakuen Junior College	Asako Ohno	Media Information Science/Databases/ Intelligence Information Science	website
Professor, Osaka University of Commerce	Kunizo Nakahashi	Strategic and organizational theory,Intelligence Information Science
Associate Professor, Kansai University, Faculty of Commerce	Kenichi Nishioka	Strategic and organizational theory in retail distribution system
Data Mining Applied research Center	Elarbi Elkaroui	Statistical and mathematical models building and application to consumer behavior theory
Professor, Kobe University	Chieko Minami	Theoretical roles of data mining in Customer Relationship Management (CRM)	website
Associate Professor, Kobe University	Hajime Murao	Perceptual Information Processing/Intelligent Robotics
Assistant Professor, Kobe University	Tsutomu Inamoto	Perceptual Information Processing/Intelligent Robotics/Systems Engineering
Associate Professor, Hiroshima City University	Wataru Sunayama	Information Acquisition, Skill Acquirement, and Creative Activity Support in On-Line Environments	website

Fellowship Researcher・Post-doctoral Fellows・Research Associates・Support Staff

Job Title, Affiliation	Name	Research Themes/in charge	HPLinks
Fellowship Researcher, Data Mining Laboratory	Shinya　Miyazaki	Spatial Information Processing and Development of platform/Research support
Post-doctoral Fellow, Data Mining Laboratory	Keiji Takai	Application of statistical and mathematical model/Research support
Kansai University, DMLab Secretary	Mika Ishino	DMLab Office/Secretary

External Evaluation Committee Member(s)

Job Title, Affiliation	Name	Research Themes/in charge	HPLinks
Emeritus Professor of Osaka University The U.S. Defense Department of Air Force Office of Science and Technology Science Advisor	Hiroshi Motoda	Advisor and Supervisor for research and strategies of Data Mining Laboratory	website
Shimane University, Faculty of Medicine Professor of Medical Informatics,	Shusaku Tsumoto	Advisor and Supervisor for research and strategies of Data Mining Laboratory	website
Computing Theory Research Group Innovative Communication Laboratory NTT Communication Science Laboratories Researcher	Akinori Abe	Advisor and Supervisor for research and strategies of Data Mining Laboratory	website
RYOSHOKU company limited	Masahiro Hara	Advisor and Supervisor for research and strategies of Data Mining Laboratory