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Japan NII Consortia, Takashi Hikihara, Professor, Director General of Library Network, Kyoto University, Department of Electrical Engineering, (4- or 6-year institutional term - based on the number of High-Contributing Organizations)
He has been at Kyoto University since 1997 and is a full professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyoto University. His research field is in nonlinear dynamics and its application, control and measurement, and power electronics. He is an author of more than 100 scientific and technical papers. He became the Deputy Director General of Library Network, Kyoto University on April 2011, and the Director General on Oct. 2012. As the Director, he led Kyoto University to declare Open Access Policy in 2015, which has impacted other institutes in Japan and invites them to green.
Standing in for Professor Hikihara until September 2018: Hideaki Takeda, Professor, Computer Science National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Hideaki Takeda is a full professor in computer science at National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan. His research field is Artificial Intelligence, particularly Semantic Web and Social Media Analysis. He is an author of more than 100 papers in computer science. He has also worked for scholarly communication field by contributing design of scholarly communication services offered by NII and by serving as a representative of NII in the variety of domestic and international activities. He is currently the chair of Japan Link Center (DOI RA), the president of Research Data Utilization Forum, Japan, the chair of SPARC Japan, and was a board member of ORCID (2012-2016).
3. Simons Foundation
One voting member from the Simons Foundation.
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Martin Köhler, Head of Library and Documentation, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Germany
Note: At the end of this year, the new Japan NII representative will be:
Japan NII Consortia, Hideaki Takeda, Professor, Computer Science National Institute of Informatics, Japan, (4- or 6-year institutional term - based on the number of High-Contributing Organizations)
Hideaki Takeda is a full professor in computer science at National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan. His research field is Artificial Intelligence, particularly Semantic Web and Social Media Analysis. He is an author of more than 100 papers in computer science. He has also worked for scholarly communication field by contributing design of scholarly communication services offered by NII and by serving as a representative of NII in the variety of domestic and international activities. He is currently the chair of Japan Link Center (DOI RA), the president of Research Data Utilization Forum, Japan, the chair of SPARC Japan, and was a board member of ORCID (2012-2016).