Hideo Joho
Chair Of Master S And Doctoral Programs In Informatics
Tsukuba, Japan
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Top SchoolHideo Joho is a Full Professor and current Chair of Master’s and Doctoral Programs in Informatics at the University of Tsukuba, with a global academic footprint that includes an Honorary Research Fellowship at the University of Glasgow and visiting positions at RMIT and Japan’s National Institute of Informatics. His research blends human information interaction, interactive and conversational search, lifelogging, and collaborative search, yielding an H-index of 38 and a strong field-weighted citation impact (FWCI 2.47 for 2019–2021). He has led research units, editorial boards, and conference organization—co-founding Tokyo ACM SIGIR Chapter and co-chairing SIGIR 2017—demonstrating leadership across research, community building, and graduate training for over 200 informatics students. Trained at the University of Sheffield (MSc, PhD), he combines rigorous information science foundations with practical program management, overseeing bilingual course delivery across 60 courses. Less obvious: beyond publications and administration, he actively shapes the research ecosystem through editorial roles and long-term visiting collaborations that bridge Japanese and international information retrieval communities.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Library and Information Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Library and Information Science at University of Library and Information ScienceDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science/Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science/Studies at The University of Sheffield
Japanese, English
Github Skills (1)
docker8
Github contributions (5)
hideojoho/homepage-lab
May 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:216 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
irnj/irnj.github.io
Apr 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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