Ikuya Yamada
Co-founder / CTO, Studio Ousia Inc.
Ph. D. Student, Keio University
Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Informatics
Current Projects
Linkify
Linkplaza
Phroni
Media Coverage
Linkify
- Linkify’s SDK Wants To Make Mobile Searches Less Cumbersome (TechCrunch, 2013)
- Linkify is Working to Make Mobile Searches Easier (Semanticweb.com, 2013)
Linkplaza
- Japan’s Studio Ousia to launch new affiliate solution for bloggers (THE BRIDGE, 2013)
Phroni
- GigaOM announces Mobilize 2012 LaunchPad winners (GigaOM, 2012)
- Frustrated with smartphone and tablet browsing? Try Phroni (e27, 2012)
- Japanese Startup Phroni Delivers a Smarter Smartphone Browsing Experience (Tech in Asia, 2012)
- Japanese Startup Phroni Gets Phunded, Raises 70 Million Yen (Tech in Asia, 2012)
- Japan-based Studio Ousia Finally Launches Phroni (Tech in Asia, 2012)
- Japan’s Bravesoft Enlists Phroni to Enhance News Reading Experience (Tech in Asia, 2012)
- Keywords Search Tool Phroni Launches As an Add-On For 2 More Mobile Browsers (Tech in Asia, 2013)
- Japan-based Phroni introduces smart add-ons for Dolphin and Sleipnir mobile browsers (THE BRIDGE, 2013)
Talks
Seeds Conference 2013
(Tokyo)
GigaOM Mobilize 2012
(San Francisco)
DEMO Asia 2012
(Singapore)
Startup Asia 2012
(Singapore)
Working Experience
- 2007- Co-founder, CTO Studio Ousia Inc.
- 2003-2005 Vice President, CTO Fractalist Inc. (previously listed on the NSE Centrex (2007-2010) and acquired by motionBEAT Inc. in 2010)
- 2000-2005 Founder, CEO Newrong Inc. (acquired by Fractalist Inc. in 2005)
Academic Experience
- Program Committee, AI Mashup Challenge 2014, at Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2014), May, 2014
- Program Committee, AI Mashup Challenge 2013, at Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013), May, 2013
Publications
- 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).
- 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).
© Ikuya Yamada