Ikuya Yamada

President/CTO, Studio Ousia Inc.
Senior visiting researcher, Keio Research Institute at SFC

My name is Ikuya Yamada. I am a founder and CTO of Studio Ousia Inc., a software R&D company founded in 2007 in Tokyo. I am also a senior visiting researcher at Keio Research Institute at SFC from 2010. Prior to Studio Ousia, I was a CTO of a listed Japanese software company named Fractalist Inc., and previously a founder and CEO of software R&D company named Newrong Inc., which is acquired by Fractalist Inc. in 2005. I was also a project manager of several Japanese goverment projects including Jisedai Software Project and The Mitoh Program. I got my B.S. (2006) and M.S. (2010) from Keio University.

Working Experience

• 2010-present Senior Visiting Reseacher, Keio Research Institute at SFC
• 2007-present Director, Groovy Media Inc.
• 2007-present Founder/CTO, Studio Ousia Inc.
• 2005-2007 Visiting Researcher, Keio Research Institute at SFC
• 2003-2005 Director/CTO, Fractalist Inc.
• 2000-2005 Founder/CEO, Newrong Inc.

Education

• 2010 M.A. Keio University
• 2005 B.A. Keio University

Papers

• Yamada, Ikuya, Yamaki, Wataru, Nakajima, Hirotaka, and Takefuji, Yoshiyasu. Phroni: Augmenting Wikipedia Using Mashups. In AI Mashup Challenge 2010, in ESWC 2010: 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (Heraklion, Greece 2010) [Paper].
• Yamada, Ikuya, Yamaki, Wataru, Nakajima, Hirotaka, and Takefuji, Yoshiyasu. Ousia Weaver: A tool for creating and publishing mashups as impressive Web pages. In MEM 2010: 3rd Workshop on Mashups, Enterprise Mashups and Lightweight Composition on the Web, in WWW 2010: Proceedings of the 18th International World Wide Web Conference (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA 2010) [Paper][Slides].
• Yamada, Ikuya, Sato, Daisuke, Sunouchi, Yuji, Araki, Eiji, and Kinose, Tomoyuki. NAT/Firewall Traversal Framework. In Demo Session of 2nd IPSJ Ubiquitous Computing Systems Seminar (Kyoto, Japan 2003).