Toshihide Ibaraki
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Toshihide Ibaraki (Japanese: 茨木 俊秀, born 1940)[1] is a Japanese computer scientist and operations researcher known for his research on graph algorithms, databases, resource allocation, fractional programming, and metaheuristics. He is a professor emeritus and former dean of informatics at Kyoto University, and the former president of The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics.[2]
Ibaraki studied engineering at Kyoto University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1963, master's degree in 1965, and doctorate in 1970.[3]
He joined the Kyoto University faculty in 1969, taking a leave from 1983 to 1985 to work as a professor at the Toyohashi University of Technology.[3] He eventually became dean of informatics at Kyoto University before retiring as professor emeritus.[2] After retiring, in 2004, he became a professor at Kwansei Gakuin University.[4] Next, he joined the Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics as a professor in 2009, and became the third president of the college in 2010, succeeding Toshiharu Hasegawa.[5] He stepped down to become a professor and was succeeded as president by Shinji Tomita in 2023.[6]
