Norimasa Yoshida, Ph.D Professor Department 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

Biographical Sketch
Dr. Norimasa Yoshida is currently a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Nihon university. He received a doctorate in engineering in 1997 from Waseda univeristy under the supervision of Prof. Fujio Yamaguchi. He had been working in the department of mechanical engineering at Waseda university as a research assistant from 1995 to 1997, in the department of computer science at Tokyo university of agriculture and technologyfrom 1997 to 2003.  From Aug. 2009 to Aug. 2010, he had stayed at Brigham Young University as an adjunct associate research professor.

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