Noriko Arai

Noriko H. Arai ( Japanese 新井紀子 Arai Noriko ; * 1962 in Kodaira , Japan ) is a Japanese mathematician, computer scientist and university professor. She is known as the founder of Researchmap, the largest social network for researchers in Japan. Her research interests lie in the areas of mathematical logic and artificial intelligence .

life and work

Arai graduated from the Hitotsubashi University with a degree in law and in 1985 graduated magna cum laude in mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Illinois . In 1998 she received her PhD in science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology . In 1999 she worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. From 2001 to 2006 she was Associate Professor at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo . Since 2006 she has been a professor in the Information and Society Research Division at the National Institute of Informatics, where she has been director of the Research Center for Community Knowledge since 2008. Here she heads several projects, including the research map project, in which more than 1/4 million researchers have their profiles. The Netcommons project is another of hers. It is currently the most popular content management system in Japanese schools. More than 5000 schools use NetCommons for their homepages or groupware. She also heads various AI projects such as the "Reading Skill Test Project" since 2011, which measures basic reading skills for adolescents. Another project is the Todai Robot Project, for which she developed the Todai robot, which takes part in the two-stage entrance exam to the best university in Japan, the University of Tokyo, and is expected to pass until 2021. The robot has so far been one of the best participants in math and English, but failed because of the questions that require an understanding of values. She has been the director of the Research Institute of Science for Education since 2017.

Arai has served on the program committee of many international conferences in her research areas. She received several awards, including the Nexplo Award in 2016. In March 2018, she was among the top 15 artificial intelligence researchers invited by French President Emmanuel Macron to join him in announcing an important new French initiative for research in the field of artificial intelligence.

Memberships

Japanese Mathematical Society
Cognitive Science Society

Honors (selection)

1984: Dean's List, The University of Illinois
1985: Dean's List, The University of Illinois
1985: Salma Wanna Award, The University of Illinois, Department of Mathematics
2007: The winner of the 3rd International Software Competition (Beijing), IASTED
2008: Nistep Award, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy
2009: Japan Open Source Software Award, Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan
2010: Public Understanding Promotion Category, Prizes for Science and Technology, the Commendation for Science and Technology, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2016: Todai Robot Project, Netexplo Award 2016, Netexplo

Publications (selection)

N. Arai, T. Pitassi, A. Urquhart: The complexity of analytic tableaux. In: The Journal of Symbolic Logic. Volume 71, No. 3, 2006, pp. 777-790.
T. Matsuzaki, M. Kobayashi, N. Arai: An Information-Processing Account of Representation Change: International Mathematical Olympiad Problems are Hard not only for Humans. In: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting. 2016.
Y. Wada, T. Matsuzaki, A. Terui, N. Arai: An automated deduction and its implementation for solving problem of sequence at university entrance examination. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 9725, 2016, pp. 82-89.
T. Arai, K. Bunji, N. Todo, N. Arai, T. Matsuzaki: Evaluating Reading Support Systems through Reading Skill Test. In: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Cognitive Science Society Meeting. 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME	Arai, Noriko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Arai, Noriko H .; 新井紀子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese mathematician, computer scientist and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kodaira , Japan