Fumito MasuiFumito Masui graduated Okayama University Faculty of Science in 1990. Later, worked at Oki Electric Industry Co., was an Assistant at Mie University Faculty of Engineering, and a Visiting Researcher at Graduate School of Information Science and Technlogy, Hokkaido University, in 2004. Since 2009 he has been an Associate Professor at Kitami Institute of Technology, Faculty of Engineering. He owns a Ph.D. in Engineering. He is an author of over three hundred publications and owns sixteen patents. His main contributions to the scientific community include creating a first named entity extraction tool for Japanese, founding the fields of automatic cyberbullying detection, and curling informatics. His research interests include natural language processing, tourism informatics, and curling informatics. Fumito Masui is a member of the following academic societies: The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI); The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); The Association for Natural Language Processing (ANLP); The Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ); The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI); Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers; Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics (SOFT); Hokkaido Regional Tourism Society; and Japan Curling Association. Read More Read Less