Shuntaro Yada - Profile and CV

News

2025-12-04: I have presented two papers at the international conferences ICADL 2025 and A-LIEP 2025.
2025-08-13: Our co-authored paper at the international conference MEDINFO 2025 was selected as a Best Paper
2025-08-09: I was invited to the workshop DDDSM co-located with MEDINFO 2025 and presented a report on NTCIR-18 RadNLP 2024
2025-07-25: My research proposal, Integration of Knowledge Across All Academic Fields through Automatic Construction of Specialised Terminology Dictionaries, has been selected as a new research project for the 2024 JST FOREST Program
2025-04-01: I have launched a new lab called Knowledge and Language Computing Laboratory (KaLC Lab)

About

Shuntaro Yada is an associate professor at the University of Tsukuba, where he leads the Knowledge and Language Computing Laboratory (KaLC Lab) within the Institute of Library, Information and Media Science. He also serves as a Vice Director at the Office of International Online Education in the university. He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Education in 2020.

His research interests lie at the intersection of natural language processing, medical informatics, and library and information science. He has developed practical systems for processing clinical texts, including the HeaRT system for electronic medical records and tools for extracting structured information from patient narratives on social media. His work extends to social computing applications such as book recommendation systems for school libraries (BookReach) and search engines for illness experience narratives, bridging medical informatics with library science methodologies.

His latest funded project, selected for the 2024 JST FOREST Program, is titled "Integration of Knowledge Across All Academic Fields through Automatic Construction of Specialised Terminology Dictionaries." This project aims to leverage language processing technology to build comprehensive terminology resources that span diverse knowledge domains, from medicine and science to law, economics, and the arts. This direction represents a natural expansion of his long-standing expertise in domain-specific language processing towards a broader, cross-disciplinary vision.

Academic profiles

TRIOS (University of Tsukuba Researcher Information) Google Scholar researchmap.jp

Details

Shuntaro Yada, PhD
Male, born 1991
ORCID 0000-0002-6209-1054
Affiliation: Institute of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba

Knowledge and Language Computing Laboratory (KaLC Lab)

Education

Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo

PhD (Education) | April 2020

Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo

Master of Arts (Education) | March 2016

The University of Tokyo

Bachelor of Arts (Education) | March 2014

Employment

National Diet Library Digital Library Division (Kansai-kan)

Part-time Researcher | April 2025–Present

University of Tsukuba Institute of Library, Information and Media Science

Associate Professor | Oct 2024–Present

University of Tsukuba Office of Online International Education

Vice Director | Oct 2024–Present

Nara Institute of Science and Technology Social Computing Laboratory

Affiliate Associate Professor | Oct 2024–Present

Assistant Professor | Nov 2020–Sep 2024

Postdoctoral Fellow | May–Oct 2020

Researcher | September 2019–April 2020

CSIRO (Australia) Data61 Language and Social Computing Team

Visiting Scientist | May–August 2019

The University of Tokyo Library and Information Science Laboratory

Researcher | April–August 2019

CSIRO (Australia) Data61 Language and Social Computing Team

Visiting Scientist | March–May 2018

KDDI Research (Japan)

Student Intern | October 2016–June 2017

Skills

Natural Languages

Japanese: Native speaker
English: Academic level (able to guide PhD students and give lectures in English)

Programming Languages

Python 3

My main programming language, constantly using since 2014 with the following experiences:

Natural Language Processing (Japanese and English)
Machine Learning (sklearn, tensorflow, pytorch, & transformers)
Data Analysis (polars, pandas, numpy, & scipy)
Data Visualisation (matplotlib, seaborn, & plotly)
Web API (Flask & FastAPI)

Elm

Web front-end development such as components and single page applications since 2020 (e.g. BookReach UI)

JavaScript

D3.js and jQuery (e.g. for designing a dashboard UI of user statistics visualisation)

Ruby

Intermittently using until 2015 for building simple web applications (with Ruby and Rails or Sinatra), and pre-processing textual data

R

Statistical hypothesis testing (e.g. t-test and ANOVA) and statistical modelling (including generalised linear mixed models)

Others

I have written small codes with Nim, Rust, Go, Haskell, Purescript

Markup Languages

HTML (and CSS): Building web sites like this page (which is based only on a CSS framework, without using any fancy CV templates)
LaTeX: Typesetting academic articles

Tools

Dev tools

VS Code, Vim (Neovim), tmux, Git, & Docker

Server ops

Web servers (Apache, Nginx, & Caddy), basic web security (e.g. SSL/TLS), & computing resource management (for HPC) on Debian (Ubuntu) Linux

Databases

MongoDB, SQLite3, MySQL, & PostgreSQL (with Hasura GraphQL)

CMS

WordPress (building and operating the web sites of labs and workshops) & DokuWiki

Cloud

Google Cloud Platform (Compute Engine, Firebase, & AI Platform)

Video editing

Premiere Pro: experience in creating a workshop PV and short independent films
iMovie: for home movies

Vector graphics

Illustrator & Affinity Designer: Designing academic posters and business cards for myself and others