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Curriculum Vitae

KRAINES, Steven

1995, Master of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
1998, Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Tokyo

Current position:
General Manager, Information Systems 2nd Department, Sankyo Frontier Co., Ltd.

Current role:
includes applying knowledge acquired during university experience to assess potential of technologies including knowledge representation and reasoning, sensor/IoT, semantic object modeling, etc. to generate value from data, e.g. for realization of Industry 4.0 related applications

Contact
kraines at sankyofrontier.com

EDUCATION

1995-1998	Ph.D., Chemical System Engineering, the University of Tokyo Graduation Thesis: "Assessing the Potential Effects of Coral Reef Engineering on Global Climate Change"
1993-1995	Master of Engineering, Chemical System Engineering, the University of Tokyo Graduation Thesis: "Construction of a Model of Mass Flux in a Coral Reef"
1992-1993	Research Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, the University of Tokyo
1991-1992	Master of Environmental Management, School of the Environment, Duke University Research Theme: "Hydroxl Radical Formation in Cloud Droplets" uncompleted in order to accept the Monbusho Scholarship at University of Tokyo
1986-1991	Bachelor of Arts, Department of East Asian Studies, Oberlin College Graduation Thesis: "Future Trends of Japan's Energy Pollution Policies and Technology"
1989-1990	Exchange Student, Kansai University of Foreign Studies
1984-1986	North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2015-2018	Associate Professor, Tokyo City University
2011-2015	Associate Professor, Future Center Initiative, the University of Tokyo
2005-2011	Associate Professor, Science Integration Program, the University of Tokyo
2004-2005	Fukan Environmental Engineering Associate Professor, the University of Tokyo
2001-2004	Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo
1998-2001	Research Associate at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
1999-2000	visiting researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne, Switzerland
1998-1999	visiting researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
1991-1992	Research Assistant at the School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Nov 2010	Best Paper Award for the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval
1992-1998	Monbusho International Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Tokyo
1991-1992	Research Assistantship at Duke University
May 1991	Graduation summa cum laude (highest honors) from Oberlin College
May 1991	Membership to Phi Beta Kappa, Scholastic Honors Society
May 1991	Perfect (800) Scores on the GREs for Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning
June 1986	Graduation with honors from NC School of Science and Mathematics

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Application of information technologies - specifically artificial intelligence, web semantics, and natural language processing - to management of knowledge resources using human-authored computer-understandable descriptors, with applications in expert and resource matching, semantic search, knowledge mining, knowledge discovery, and knowledge network generation.

Specific topics include:

Modularization and interfacing methodologies for enabling interoperation of computational models and databases in engineering sciences on the Internet
Analysis of tradeoffs and optimization of large-scale complex system models of urban systems with focus on energy and air pollution
Development of a collaboration platform on the Internet based on integration of computational models and databases for knowledge sharing, discovery, and integration. Focus is on supporting an "emergent" form of problem solving in exploratory design, including elucidation of design failure mechanisms, exploration of alternative design options, and discovery of new approaches, materials, and techniques

CLASSES TAUGHT

Computer Science (co-taught in Japanese with Professor Mitsuru Arai) (2003, 2004, 2005)
Coordinator for Computer Chemistry Undergraduate Lab (2005)
English Rinko Seminar (2003: "Input-Output Analysis: Foundations and Extensions" by Miller and Blair, 2004: "Plan B" by Lester Brown)
Process Design

GRADUATE THESES SUPERVISED

Partial list of theses supervised (co-supervised with Professor Hiroshi Komiyama)
PhD Degree

Koyama, Michihisa 2002. A Research on cost-performance improvement of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Analyses of system properties and electrode reactions, and development of a markup language for a collaborative knowledge sharing platform. Chemical Systems Engineering PhD degree thesis, the University of Tokyo.

Masters Degree

Inagaki, Kenichi. 2004. Chemical Systems Engineering Master's degree thesis, the University of Tokyo.
Maruyama, Yasunari. 2003. Chemical Systems Engineering Master's degree thesis, the University of Tokyo.
Yamamoto,T. 2002. Chemical Systems Engineering Master's degree thesis, the University of Tokyo.
Kawaguchi, Maiko. 2002. Chemical Systems Engineering Master's degree thesis, the University of Tokyo.
Akatsuka, Takeyoshi. 2001. Chemical Systems Engineering Master's degree thesis, the University of Tokyo.
Takagi, Yoshinori 2000. Chemical Systems Engineering Master's degree thesis, the University of Tokyo.

Bachelors Degree

Jimmy 2003. Construction of an extensible steelmaking process model for environmental impact assessment of steelmaking processes in China. Chemical Systems Engineering Undergraduate thesis, the University of Tokyo.
Takamiya, Sumi. 2003. Chemical Systems Engineering Undergraduate thesis, the University of Tokyo.
Muraki, Ryota. 2002. Chemical Systems Engineering Undergraduate thesis, the University of Tokyo.
Saito, Seijiro 2002. Chemical Systems Engineering Undergraduate thesis, the University of Tokyo.
Shigeoka, Hitoshi. 2001. Chemical Systems Engineering Undergraduate thesis, the University of Tokyo.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Member of Global Ware Project committee under direction of the Dean of the School of Engineering (2002-2005)
Adjunct Faculty with Trandisciplinary Initiative for Global Sustainability (Cooperative Professor) and Institute of Industrial Science
Program Committee for KDIR2011 and SKY2011
Session chair for KDIR2010, FECS2010
Panelist for ICT4D award of the ProsperNet YSA2011

OTHER SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Japanese language - fluent speaking, reading and writing (22 years)
French language - basic speaking, reading and writing (2 years)
Chinese language - basic conversation (1 year)
Computer programming in Java, C, C++, FORTRAN, python, PHP
Ontology development in OWL-DL
Classical Violin (35 years) Karate (25 years) Aikido (5 years) SCUBA diving

LIST OF PREVIOUSLY FUNDED PROJECTS

Funding Agency	Project Title
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan	Japan Low Carbon Society Scenarios toward 2050
Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)	Biomass Leading Project
Japan Science and Technology Agency	Construction of a semantic search engine for the Failure Knowledge Database (principal investigator)
Alliance for Global Sustainability	A sustainability collaboration platform to evaluate energy, mobility and building technologies for a sustainable urban ecosystem (principal investigator)
New Energy Development Organization of Japan	Construction of a system model for the lifecycle impacts of buildings as a prototype for an integrated evaluation platform (principal investigator)
Alliance for Global Sustainability	Sustainability in heavily polluting sectors in China: A regional analysis in Shanxi and Liaoning provinces. (principal investigator)
MEXT	Tokyo Greenhouse Gas Half Project: Millennium Project
Alliance for Global Sustainability	Methodologies for urban sustainable development with emphasis on reduced greenhouse gas emissions: Tokyo Half Project as an applied example
Alliance for Global Sustainability	Training for energy efficient and low pollution technologies in China (principal investigator)
Alliance for Global Sustainability	Breakthroughs in sustainable technology: understanding the dynamics of success and failure and building consensus on experiments in sustainable technology development
Research Institute for Innovative Technologies for the Earth	Feasibility study of an ecoengineering-based method to increase atmospheric CO2 fixation into a marine ecosystem (principal investigator)
Osaka Gas	Feasibility study of an ESCO enterprise utilizing IT (principal investigator)