Yohei Murakami Ph.D
Yohei Murakami is an associate professor of Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He currently leads the research and development of the Language Grid, the purpose of which is to share various language resources as Web services and enable users to create new services. Also, He is leading a project called "Indonesia Language Sphere," the purpose of which is to semi-automatically create bilingual dictionaries between Indonesian ethnic languages for saving endangered languages. He received the Achievement Award of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers for this work in 2013. His research interests lie in services computing and multiagent systems. He founded the Technical Committee on Services Computing in the Institute of Electronics, information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) in 2012. He received his Ph.D. degree in informatics from Kyoto University in 2006.