Background
Sugiyama was born on September 17, 1945 in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
杉山 公造
Sugiyama was born on September 17, 1945 in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
He did both his undergraduate and graduate studies at Nagoya University, earning a doctorate in 1974. He then worked for Fujitsu until 1997, when he became a professor at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. At JAIST, he became a center director in 1998, dean in 2000, and vice president in 2008.
He died on June 10, 2011.
In the 1990s, Sugiyama also served as one of the directors of the Information Processing Society of Japan. Sugiyama is best known for his work with Tagawa and Toda introducing layered graph drawing, now also known as Sugiyama-style graph drawing.
Sugiyama also wrote highly cited papers on other topics in graph drawing including maintenance of the "mental map" when a drawing is modified, drawings that simultaneously display both the adjacencies between vertices in a graph and a hierarchical structure on the same vertices, and the control of edge orientations in force-based algorithms.