Shin-ichi Minato (Kyoto University)
Bio sketch.
Shin-ichi Minato is a Professor at Kyoto University. His research interests include efficient representations and manipulation algorithms for large-scale discrete structure data. He received B.E., M.E., and D.E. degrees from Kyoto University in 1988, 1990, and 1995, respectively. He had been working at NTT Laboratories since 1990 until March 2004. On 2004, he joined Hokkaido University as an Associate Professor and has been a Professor since Oct. 2010. From Apr. 2018, he is a Professor at Kyoto University (present position). From Oct. 2009 to Mar. 2016, he served a Research Director of ERATO (Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology) MINATO Discrete Structure Manipulation System Project. From 2020 to now, he serves a project leader of JSPS KAKENHI AFSA (Algorithmic Foundations for Social Advancement) Project.
URL: https://www.lab2.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/minato/index-e.html
Speech title: Recent Research Activities on Algorithmic Foundations for Social Advancement
Naomi Nishimura (University of Waterloo)
Bio sketch.
Naomi Nishimura is a professor at the University of Waterloo. Her research is in the area of algorithms and complexity. Her main research interests include developing algorithms, such as graph algorithms, fixed-parameter algorithms, and algorithms for reconfiguration problems. She received a B.S. degree from Yale University in 1983, and she received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto in 1988 and 1991, respectively. In 2017 and 2022, she was the co-organizer of Banff International Research Station workshops on Combinatorial Reconfiguration. She gave an overview talk on reconfiguration in CanaDAM 2017 and wrote a survey on reconfiguration, titled ``Introduction to Reconfiguration'' for a special issue ``Reconfiguration Problems'' in the journal Algorithms.
URL: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nishi/