Daisuke Yamamoto

Daisuke Yamamoto

Nagoya Institute of Technology (National University, Japan)
Department of Computer Science
Associate Professor
(Concurrent: Head, Database Division, Information Technology Center)
E-mail: yamamoto.daisuke [at] nitech.ac.jp
Phone: +81-52-735-5176
Address: Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Biography

Born on August 4, 1980, in Kota, Nukata District, Aichi Prefecture. Blood type AB. He became passionate about programming after receiving a PC-8801MkIISR from his uncle in the 6th grade. In junior high school, he joined the Science & Technology Club and used an FM-TOWNS. He developed games and educational software in BASIC and won awards for two consecutive years (Grand Prize and Excellence Award) at the national software contest hosted by Fujitsu and Obunsha. In high school, he taught himself C++ and other languages. At university, he started a hobbyist game development circle and exhibited at Comic Market with a “shutter” placement. Proceeds from game sales funded his progression to a doctoral course. After joining Nagoya University’s Nagao Laboratory, he conducted research on video and the web, winning the Student Encouragement Award at the IPSJ National Convention for three consecutive years starting in his senior undergraduate year. In the first half of FY2005, his project “A Distribution and Community Support System for Multimedia Content” was selected for the IPA Exploratory IT Human Resources Project (MITOU). Upon completion, he was certified as a Super Creator (a.k.a. “Genius Programmer”). He is known to some as the developer of Synvie and as a person who inspired the origins of Nico Nico Douga. He has been an Assistant Professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology since 2008, an Associate Professor since 2012, and Head of the Database Division at the Information Infrastructure Center since 2020. He has received the university staff commendation (Excellence Award) six times. His current research interests include social technologies, geographic information systems (GIS), large language models, user-generated technologies, and spoken dialogue systems. His research funding record includes roles such as Co-Investigator on CREST, Principal Investigator on SCOPE, Principal Investigator on KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (twice), Principal Investigator on Challenging Exploratory Research, Principal Investigator on Young Scientists (A), Principal Investigator on MITOU (Super Creator), and support from JSPS, among others. Since COVID-19, he has relocated to the countryside. Hobbies include fishing, weight training, camping, and DIY. Hobby updates are shared on X.

Education

• Doctoral Program, Department of Media Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University (– Mar. 2008)
• Master’s Program, Department of Media Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University (– Mar. 2005)
• Bachelor’s Program, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, School of Engineering, Nagoya University (– Mar. 2003)
• Aichi Prefectural Kariya High School (– Mar. 1999)

Work Experience

• Nagoya Institute of Technology, Information Infrastructure Center, Head of Database Division (concurrent position) (Apr. 2020 – present)
• Nagoya Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Engineering, Associate Professor (Apr. 2012 – present)
• Nagoya Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Engineering, Assistant Professor (Apr. 2008 - 2012)

Research Topics

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Spoken Dialogue Systems
• Data Engineering
• Service Engineering
• Video Sharing Services
• Social Computing
• Multimedia Engineering

Projects

• KAKENHI (Scientific Research B) Establishing Indoor–Outdoor Route Estimation Methods for Real-World Use During Pandemics (2023–2025, PI)
• KAKENHI (Challenging Exploratory) Realizing Easy-to-Understand Map Guidance via Dynamic Generation of Illustrated Maps (2021–2023, PI)
• KAKENHI (Scientific Research B) Establishing Indoor–Outdoor Route Estimation Based on Global Map-Matching and its Application to Disaster Drills (2019–2021, PI)
• SCOPE A “Talking” Bus Route Guidance System for Practical Use in Public Spaces (2016–2018, PI)
• KAKENHI (Young Scientists A) Mobile Voice Navigation Based on Social Annotations (2013–2016, PI)
• CREST Establishing Next-Generation Speech Technology Based on a Circular Ecosystem of Content Creation (2011–2016, Principal Researcher)
• KAKENHI (Scientific Research C) Intelligent Sharing and Creation of Web Multimedia Content (2008–2011, PI)
• JSPS Research Fellowship (DC) Annotation for Multimedia Content and Its Applications (2006–2007)
• IPA MITOU (Exploratory IT Human Resources Project) Development of a Distribution and Community Support System for Multimedia Content (2005, PI)

Committees

• IPSJ Journal (Databases) Editorial Board Member (2025.4–)
• IPSJ Journal (Digital Contents) Deputy Editor-in-Chief (2025.4–)
• DASFAA 2024 Organizing Committee (2024)
• IEICE Transactions Special Section on Data Engineering and Information Management, Editorial Board (2024–)
• IEICE Japanese Journal Special Issue on Data Engineering and Information Management, Editorial Board (2024–)
• DEIM 2024 / DEIM 2025 Program Committee (2024–2025)
• Advisor, Japanese National Team (Programming), International Abilympics (2023.12)
• IPSJ Journal (Digital Contents), Editorial Board Member (2023.4–)
• Chair, IEEE Nagoya Section Standing Committee (Students Activities) (2023–2025)
• Member, Moricoro Park (Expo 2005 Commemorative Park) Management Council Core (2022.4–)
• GEOProcessing Technical Program Committee Member (2022.6–)
• Advisor, Japanese National Team (Programming), International Abilympics (2019.12)
• Operating Committee Member, IPSJ DCC (Digital Contents Creation) Research Group (2019.4–)
• Local Chair, W2GIS 2019 (2019.3)
• Vice Program Chair, DEIM 2019 / 2020 (2019–2020)
• Councilor, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (2017.4–2019.3)
• Organizing Committee Member, 19th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (2014.9)
• Organizing Committee Member, IPSJ 74th National Convention (2012.3)
• Member, IEEE Computer Society (2009.10–)
• Member, Database Society of Japan (JDBS) (2009.2–)
• Member, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (2008.2–)
• Member, Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) (2005.3–)

Awards

• GeoProcessing 2023 Best Paper Award (2023.4)
• DICOMO 2017 Outstanding Paper Award (2017.8)
• JST Co-sponsored Mono-App Hackathon SUPER Grand Prize (2015.3)
• Nagoya Institute of Technology Staff Commendation (Excellence Award) (2013.11)
• Virtual Reality Society of Japan Paper Award (2012.9)
• Nagoya Institute of Technology Staff Commendation (Excellence Award) (2011.11)
• DEIM 2011 Best Interactive Presentation Award (2011.3)
• W2GIS 2011 Best Presentation Award (2011.3)
• IEICE Technical Committee on Educational Technology Outstanding Research Award (2010.11)
• Japan Society for e-Learning Autumn Conference Excellent Paper Award (2009.11)
• Nagoya Institute of Technology Staff Commendation (Grand Prize) (2009.11)
• Nagoya Institute of Technology Staff Commendation (Excellence Award) (2008.11)
• IPSJ Tokai Branch Student Encouragement Award (2008.5)
• IPSJ Computer Science Field Encouragement Award (2006.7)
• IPA Exploratory Software Creation Project Certified Genius Programmer / Super Creator (2006.5)
• IPSJ DBS/GN/BCC Joint Workshop Student Encouragement Award (2006.1)
• IPSJ 67th National Convention Student Encouragement Award (2005.3)
• Nagoya University Graduate School of Information Science Master’s Thesis Mid-term Presentation Excellence Award (Faculty Selection) (2004.4)
• Nagoya University Graduate School of Information Science Master’s Thesis Mid-term Presentation Excellence Award (Student Selection) (2004.4)
• IPSJ 66th National Convention Student Encouragement Award (2004.3)
• IPSJ 65th National Convention Student Encouragement Award (2003.3)

Selected Publications

1. Daisuke Yamamoto, Haruka Miura, and Shinsuke Kajioka, Cooking Recipe Editing Method Using Large Language Models and Visual Programming, IPSJ Journal of Digital Content (DCON), Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 14-23, 2025.
2. Daisuke Yamamoto, Yuki Hiura, and Yonghwan Kim. 2024. K-Fewest Turn and Shortest Path Algorithm based on Stroke Graph. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 32-41.
3. Mizuki Furuichi, Daisuke Yamamoto, and Naohisa Takahashi, Voice Dialogue Scenario Editing System with Block-based Visual Programming Function, IPSJ Journal of Digital Content, No. 8, Vol. 2, pp. 1-15, 2020.
4. Daisuke Yamamoto, Masaki Murase and Naohisa Takahashi, On-Demand Generalization of Road Networks based on Facility Search Results, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E102-D, No.1, pp.99-103, Jan. 2019.
5. Ryota Nishimura, Daisuke Yamamoto, Takahiro Uchiya and Ichi Takumi, Web-based Environment for User Generation of Spoken Dialog for Virtual Assistants, EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2018:17, 2018.
6. Daisuke Yamamoto, Ryosuke Tanaka, Shinsuke Kajioka, Hiroshi Matsuo, Naohisa Takahashi, Global Map Matching using BLE Beacons for Indoor Route and Stay Estimation, Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGSPATIAL, pp. 309-318, Seattle, Nov. 2018.
7. Daisuke Yamamoto, Masaki Murase and Naohisa Takahashi, Fisheye Map Using Stroke-Based Generalization for Web Map Services, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. E101-D, No. 1, pp. 171-180, 2018.
8. Daisuke Yamamoto, Shotaro Ozeki, Naohisa Takahashi, Focus+Glue+Context: An Improved Fisheye Approach for Web Map Services, Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009, Seattle, Washington, pp.101-110, Nov. 2009.
9. Daisuke Yamamoto, Tomoki Masuda, Shigeki Ohira, Katashi Nagao, Video Scene Annotation Based on Web Social Activities, IEEE Multimedia, Vol.15, No.3, pp.22-32, Sep. 2008.
10. Daisuke Yamamoto and Katashi Nagao, Annotation of Online Video Content by Viewers and Its Applications, Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.20, No.1, pp.67-75, Jan. 2005.

For other publications and achievements, please refer to researchmap.