Yasushi Sakurai, Ph. D.

• Contact Information
  NTT Communication Science Laboratories 2-4 Hikaridai, Seika, Soraku, Kyoto, 619-0237 Japan yasushi.sakurai [AT] acm.org

• Education
  Ph.D., Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (1996 -- 1999)
  M.E., Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (1995 -- 1996)
  B.E., Department of Electrical Engineering, Doshisha University (1987 -- 1991)

• Professional Experience
  Senior researcher, NTT Communication Science Laboratories (2007 -- Present)
  Researcher, NTT Cyber Space Laboratories (1998 -- 2007)
  Software development engineer, NTT (1991 -- 1998)

• Research Interests
  Similarity query processing
  Data stream processing

• Awards

• Publications

• Professional Activities

• Software

• SPRING (Stream Monitoring under the Time Warping Distance, ICDE 2007)
• BRAID (BRAID: Stream Mining through Group Lag Correlations, SIGMOD 2005)
• FTW (FTW: Fast Similarity Search under the Time Warping Distance, PODS 2005)
• A-tree (The A-tree: An Index Structure for High-Dimensional Spaces Using Relative Approximation, VLDB 2000)