+Personal Data

• First Name: NOBORU
• Sur Name: BABAGUCHI
• Sex: Male
• Birth Day & Place: Feb. 20, 1957, Osaka Japan
• Affiliation: Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
• Position: Professor
• Research Interests: Intelligent Media Processing
• Business Address: 2-1 Yamadaoka Suita, Osaka 565-0871, JAPAN
• Home Address: Takatsuki, Osaka, JAPAN
• Family: Wife and two sons

+Education

1975-1979

Department of Communication Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University
Received the B.E. degree from Osaka University, 1979.

1979-1981

Graduate School (Master Course) of Osaka University
Received the M.E. degree from Osaka University, 1981.

1981-1982

Graduate School (Doctor Course) of Osaka University

1984

Received the Ph.D. degree from Osaka University.
The Ph.D. dissertation is entitled:
"A study on handwritten character recognition by direction segment extraction".

+Research and Professional Experience

1982-1987

Research Associate at Department of Electronics Engineering,
Ehime University, Japan

1987-1990

Research Associate at Department of Communication Engineering,
Osaka University, Japan

1990-1993

Assistant Professor at Department of Communication Engineering,
Osaka University, Japan

1993-2002

Associate Professor at Institute of Scientific Industrial Research,
Osaka University, Japan

1996-1997

Visiting Scholar at University of California, San Diego

2002-2005

Professor at Department of Communications Engineering,
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan

2005-present

Professor at Department of Information and Communications Technology,
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan

2005-2009

Guest Group Leader, Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)

2013-present

Visiting Professor, National Institute of Informatics (NII)

+Membership of Academic Societies

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Association for Computing Machinery
• Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
• Information Processing Society of Japan
• Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence