Background
Nishio, Shojiro was born on October 20, 1951 in Kokufu-cho, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Son of Kiyozo and Chiyoko Muro.
西尾 章治郎
Nishio, Shojiro was born on October 20, 1951 in Kokufu-cho, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Son of Kiyozo and Chiyoko Muro.
Bachelor of Engineering, Kyoto University, 1975. Master of Engineering, Kyoto University, 1977. Doctor of Engineering, Kyoto University, 1980.
He is the president of Osaka University. Nishio was a student at Kyoto University. He was successively a faculty member at Kyoto University, a guest assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, a guest fellow at the Research Institute for High-degree Systems of British Columbia, and an assistant professor at Osaka University.
He became a full professor in 1992.
He was made a Distinguished Professor of the university in 2013. Nishio has made contributions to data engineering, particularly to deductive and object-oriented databases, to knowledge discovery and to database system architecture for broadband networks and mobile computing environments.
He is the co-author or co-editor of more than 50 books and more than 600 referred journal or conference papers on his research fields.
Member Japan Society Software Science and Technology (board directors 1992-1994, 96-2000).
Married Keiko Nishio, October 17, 1982. Children: Eriko, Mayuko.