Prof. Nobuo Funabiki

Okayama University, Japan

Nobuo Funabiki received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematical engineering and information physics from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1984 and 1993, respectively. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Case Western Reserve University, USA, in 1991. From 1984 to 1994, he was with the System Engineering Division, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., Japan. In 1994, he joined the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at Osaka University, Japan, as an assistant professor, and became an associate professor in 1995. He stayed at University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2000-2001, as a visiting researcher. In 2001, he moved to the Department of Information and Communication Systems at Okayama University as a professor. His research interests include computer networks, IoT, optimization algorithms, educational technology, and web application systems. He is a member of IEEE, IEICE, and IPSJ. He was a vice president for conferences at IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoC) in 2023 and 2024, and the chairman at IEEE Hiroshima Section in 2015 and 2016.