IIMT Bhubaneswar has instituted the "KAZUMI NAKAMATSU ENDOWMENT AWARD" starting from the academic year 2024-25. This award will be conferred upon the student who attains the highest mark in Artificial Intelligence during the third semester of the MCA program at IIMT, Bhubaneswar. Prof. Kazumi Nakamatsu, associated with Interscience Institute of Management & Technology as a mentor, is a distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science, renowned for his substantial contributions to the academic society. The recipient of this endowment award will be honored with a citation and a certificate.
Prof.
Kazumi Nakamatsu is a mentor of our institute and visited our institute in
2016. He has received the Ms. Eng. and Dr. Sci. from Shizuoka University and
Kyushu University, Japan, respectively. He is a full Professor at School of
Human Science and Environment, University of Hyogo, Japan. His research
interests encompass various kinds of logic and their applications to Computer
Science, especially paraconsistent annotated logic programs and their
applications. He has developed some paraconsistent annotated logic programs
called ALPSN(Annotated Logic Program with Strong Negation), VALPSN(Vector ALPSN),
EVALPSN(Extended VALPSN) and bf-EVALPSN (before-after EVALPSN) recently, and
applied them to various intelligent systems such as a safety verification based
railway interlocking control system and process order control. He is an author
of over 150 papers and 20 book chapters, and 10 edited books published by
prominent publishers. Kazumi Nakamatsu has chaired various international
conferences, workshops and invited sessions, and he has been a member of
numerous international program committees of workshops and conferences in the
area of Computer Science. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International
Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems(IJRIS) by Inderscience
Publisher(UK) and an editorial board member of many international journals. He
has contributed numerous invited lectures at international workshops,
conferences, and academic organizations. He also is a recipient of some
conference and paper awards. He is a member of Japan AI Society, Japan Facial
Society, etc.