Curriculum Vitae
Yasunari HARADA
Primary Contact Information
Personal History
- Professional History
- April 1st, 2025. Awarded Professor Emeritus from Waseda University
- March 31st, 2025. Retired from Waseda University
- April 20th, 2023-March 31st, 2024: Visiting Scholar at Natural Language Processing Lab., Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
- November 8th, 2018-September 20th, 2022: Director at Admissions Center, Waseda University
- March 31st, 2018: unsubscribed from Information Processing Society of Japan
- March 20th, 2018-March 31st, 2025: Research Member at Data Science Center, Waseda University
- April 28th, 2017-March, 2020: President of Association for Business Communication in Japan
- April, 2016-March, 2018: Council Member of Waseda University
- May, 2015-March, 2024: Research Member of Meiji University Insitute for Service Innovation
- January, 2015-December, 2012: Steering Committee Member of Japanese Cognitive Science Society
- September 21st, 2014-September 20th, 2018: Associate Dean in Charge of Admission at School of Law, Waseda University
- April, 2012: LLSJ: Logico-Linguistics Society of Japan changed its name into JASLI: Japanese Association for the Study of Logic, Language and Information.
- December, 2012-December, 2014: Steering Committee Member of Japanese Cognitive Science Society
- May, 2012-May, 2020: Consultant (Previous Chair) of the Technical Committee on Thought and Language in the Engineering Science Society of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, http://www.ieice.org/eng/index.html
- April, 2011-March 31st, 2025: Research Member at Waseda Institute for the Study of Language and Information
- May, 2010-May, 2012: Chair of the Technical Committee on Thought and Language in the Engineering Science Society of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, http://www.ieice.org/eng/index.html
- April, 2010-March, 2016: President of the English Language Education Society of Japan, http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/jeles/index-j.html (this page in Japanese)
- May, 2008-May, 2010: Technical Committee Member of the Technical Committee on Thought and Language in the Engineering Science Society of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, http://www.ieice.org/eng/index.html
- September, 2006-August, 2012: President of the Logico-Linguistics Society of Japan, http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/LLSJ/index-j.html (this page in Japanese)
- July, 2005-August, 2008: Board of Directors Member of ILA: Non-Profit Organization Internet Learning Academy, http://www.ila.or.jp/english/index.html (this page in Japanese)
- April, 2005- March, 2008: Technical Committee Member of the Ad-hoc Technical Committee on Intercultural Collaboration, the Institute of Communication Electronics, Information and Engineers, http://www.ieice.org/eng/index.html
- December, 2004-December, 2008: Steering Committee Member and Board of Directors Memeber of Japanese Cognitive Science Society
- September, 2004-present: Professor at Faculty of Law, Waseda University (this change due to organizational re-structuring of the university)
- October, 2003-present: Steering Committee member of PACLIC: Pacific-Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/PACLIC-STEERING/index.html
- January, 2002-May, 2005: Steering Committee Member of ILA: Non-Profit Organization Internet Learning Academy, http://www.ila.or.jp/english/index.html (this page in Japanese)
- March, 2001-March 2002: Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, California, USA
- December, 2000-March 31st, 2025: Director at the Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development, Waseda University
- April, 1999-March, 2000: Visiting Instructor at Postal College, Ministry of Post and Telecommunication
- April, 1997-March, 2004: Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Language Teaching, Waseda University
- April, 1997-March, 2014: Adjunct Researcher at Media Network Center, Waseda University
- June, 1996-March, 2001: Associate Dean at Media Network Center, Waseda University
- April, 1995-March, 2023: Adjunct Professor at Graduate School of Education, Waseda University
- November, 1994-May, 1996: Associate Director at Centre for Informatics, Waseda University
- April, 1994-September, 2004: Professor at School of Law, Waseda University
- April, 1994-March, 1996: Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Language Teaching, Waseda University
- April, 1994-March, 1995: Adjunct Research Member, International Research Institute of Japanese Culture, Kyoto
- March, 1991-March 1993: Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, California, USA
- April, 1989-March, 2004: Adjunct Researcher at the Institute of Language Teaching, Waseda University
- April, 1989-March, 1994: Assistant Professor at School of Law, Waseda University
- April, 1986-March, 1989: Instructor at School of Law, Waseda University
- April, 1985-March, 1989: Part-time Lecturer at School of Law, Waseda University
- April, 1985-March, 1992: Research Member of JPSG-WG, Institute for the New Generation Computer Technology, Tokyo
- Education
- April, 1981-March, 1985, Department of English Language and English Literature, Doctoral Course at Graduate School of Humanity Studies, Tokyo University.
- April, 1978-March, 1981, Department of English Language and English Literature, Master's Course at Graduate School of Humanity Studies, Tokyo University.
- April, 1976-March, 1978, Department of School Education, Faculty of Pedagogy, Tokyo University.
- April, 1973-March, 1976, Science Course I, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Tokyo University.
- Fields of Study:
- Cognitive Science and Computational Linguistics
- Grammatical Theory: Formal Semantics and Pragmatics
- Computer and Network Ethics Education
- Language Learning in Collaborative Environments
- Technology Enabled and/or Enhanced Learning and Testing
- Current Research Projects:
- A Field Theory of Communicating Agents: Semantics and Pragmatics
- Utterance Data Collection from College Learners of English in Japan
- Additional Research Interests
- Literacy, Orality and Communication Ethics Education
- Learner Profiling and Learner Adaptive Support
- Sonicalization of Algorithms and Large-Scale Data for Research and Pedagogical Applications
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Selected List of Publications in English
Notices
- Copyright © 1996-2025 Yasunari HARADA. All rights reserved.
- First drafted May 21st, 1996. Last revised October 12th, 2025.