Ying DaiYing Dai received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Xian Jiaotong University, China in 1985 and 1988, respectively. After some years working in the same university, she attended Department of Information Engineering, Shinshu University, Japan in 1992. Se had a Dr. Eng degree from Shinshu University in 1996. She was granted JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists from 1995 to 1997. She joined the Iwate Pref. University in 1998. She has been an associate professor in the Faculty of Software and Information Science, Iwate Pref. University since 2002. Her main research interests are in the area of Pattern Recognition, Image Understanding, Kansei Information Processing, and Soft Computing Techniques. She is the member of IEEE, IEICE (the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers), and JSKE (Japan Society of Kansei Engineering). Read More Read Less