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Norimasa Yoshida, Ph.D Associate Professor Deparmtment of Industrial Engineering and Management College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University 1-2-1 Izumi-cho Narashino-shi, Chiba, 275-8575 JAPAN Phone: +81-47-474-2634 Fax: +81-47-474-2619 Email: yoshida.norimasa (_at_mark_) nihon-u.ac.jp Web: http://www.yoshida-lab.net

From Aug. 2009, I am on my sabbatical and can be reached at the following address: 2248 TMCB Computer Sicence Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 U.S.A. +1-801-422-7430

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Biographical Sketch
Dr. Norimasa Yoshida is currently an associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Nihon university. He received a doctrate in engineering in 1997 from Waseda univeristyunder the supervision of Prof. Fujio Yamaguchi. He had been working in the department of mechanical engineering at Waseda university as an research assistant from 1995 to 1997, in the department of computer science at Tokyo university of agriculture and technology from 1997 to 2003.

Research Interest

• Aesthetic Shape Design using aesthetic curves
• Various kinds of simulation
• Level of Detail in computer graphics and CAD
• Interactive and intuitive modeling of 3-dimensional meshes
• Robust geometric algorithms
• 4-dimensional homogeneous processing of geometric algorithms

Academic Societies

• Association for Computing Machinery
• The Japan Society of Precision Engineering
• Information Processing Society of Japan
• The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers