Masatoshi Yoshikawa Department of Social Informatics Graduate School of Informatics Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501 JAPAN e-mail: yoshikawa (AT) i (dot) kyoto-u (dot) ac (dot) jp

Masatoshi Yoshikawa received B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Department of Information Science, Kyoto University in 1980, 1982 and 1985, respectively. He was on the faculty of Kyoto Sangyo University from 1985 until 1993. From 1989 to 1990, he was a visiting scientist at Computer Science Department, University of Southern California. In 1993, he joined Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) as a faculty member. From April 1996 to January 1997, he has stayed at Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo as a visiting associate professor. From June 2002 to March 2006, he served as a professor at Nagoya University. From April 2006, he has been a professor at Kyoto University.

His general research interests are in the area of databases. His current interests include XML databases and index structures for text and multimedia data.