Nationality Japanese Fields Information engineering | Name Shojiro Nishio Institution Osaka University | |
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Notable awards Purple Ribbon Medals of Honor (Japan) | ||
Shojiro Nishio (西尾 章治郎, Nishio Shōjirō) is a Japanese information scientist and technology scholar and the 18th president of Osaka University. Having co-authored or co-edited more than 55 books and more than 650 refereed journal or conference papers as well as serving on editorial boards of major information sciences journals, Nishio is considered one of the most prominent and influential researchers on database systems and networks.
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He became Osaka University's full professor in 1992. Thereafter he has held a number of key leadership positions of Osaka University such as the Founding Director of the Cybermedia Center, Dean of Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Executive Vice President prior to becoming the university's president in 2015.
In addition, Nishio has served on numerous committees and governing bodies of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). In his capacity both as a leading computer scientist and president of Japan's leading research university, Nishio has facilitated the formulation of Japan's higher education and science policies and been instrumental in setting their overall directions.
Nisho has become a member of the Science Council of Japan, the country's Academoy of Science, since 2006 and acted as the Chair of Informatics from 2011 to 2014.
Education
Nishio was a student at Kyoto University. He earned the Bachelor of Engineering in 1975, Master of Engineering in 1977, and Ph.D. in engineering in 1980.
Awards and honors
Nishio received an Achievement Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) in 2001, and from the Funai Foundation for Information Technology in 2004. He received a Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) in 2010, from the Database Society of Japan in 2010, and from the IEICE in 2013.
Nishio was elected a fellow of the IPSJ in March 2002, of the IEICE in September 2004, and of the IEEE Computer Society in January 2012, for contributions to data and knowledge management in database systems.
In 2011 he won a Japanese Medal of Honor with purple ribbon for distinguished research achievement on information science.