Professional Activities

Program Chairs/Editors

  1. Program co-chair for the 11th Computer Games Conference (with Cameron Browne), 2022.

  2. Program co-chair for the 17th Advances in Computer Games (with Cameron Browne), 2021.

  3. Co-chair for the 10th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS 2017) (with Alex Fukunaga).

  4. Program co-chair for the Game Programming Workshop in Japan (GPW) (with Takeshi Ito/Tomoyuki Kaneko), 2007-2009.

  5. Topic co-editor, Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Sciences, Robotics and AI, Frontiers (with Seijiro Matsubara, Beat Buesser, Takahiko Koyama and Yasuo Tabei), 2018-2020.

Editorial Boards

  1. Editorial board member for International Computer Games Association (ICGA), 2011-Present.

  2. Editorial board member for Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ, 情報処理学会), 2011-2013.

  3. Editorial board member for Japan Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI, 人工知能学会), 2010-2013.

Councils/Advisory Committees

  1. Board Director (理事), The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI, 人工知能学会), 2024-Present.

  2. Member for the SoCS (Symposium on Combinatorial Search) Council, 2017-2021.

  3. Advisory committee member for the 18th Advances in Computer Games (with Cameron Browne).

  4. Secretary (幹事), the Information Processing Society of Japan Game Informatics Colloquium (情報処理学会ゲーム情報学研究会), 2007-2011.

Senior Program Committees

  1. Senior PC member for AAAI, 2023-2025.

  2. Senior PC member for IJCAI, 2021, 2023.

Program Committees/Reviewers

  1. IJCAI, 2009-2020, 2022, 2024.

  2. AAAI, 2011-2012, 2014-2022.

  3. ICAPS: 2013, 2021, 2022, 2024.

  4. SoCS, 2012-2016, 2018-2021, 2023.

  5. CG, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2024.

  6. ACG, 11th, 13th 14-16th.

  7. WWW, 2016.

  8. AAMAS, 2015.

  9. IEEE CoG, 2019, 2022.

  10. IEEE CIG, 2015.

  11. AIIDE, 2010-2013.

  12. GPW, 2005-2006, 2010-2025.

  13. NeurIPS, 2015, 2021-2022.