Takahiro Hara received the BE, ME, and Dr.E degrees in information systems engineering from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1995, 1997, and 2000, respectively.
Currently, he is a full professor in the Department of Multimedia Engineering, Osaka University.
His research interests include database systems, distributed systems, mobile computing, and social computing.
He has published more than 500 Journal and international conference papers in the areas of databases, mobile computing, peer-to-peer systems, WWW, social computing, and wireless networking.
He served as a General Chair of IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'14) and International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous'16 and '21). He served and is serving as a Program Chair of a large number of international conferences including IEEE International Conferences on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06, 10 and 18), Mobiquitous'13, and IEEE SRDS'12. He served and is serving as a Program Committee Member of more than 200 international conferences including top-ranked ones such as VLDB, WWW and CIKM.
He is a distinguished scientist of ACM and a senior member of IEEE.