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she joined the faculty at the Chiba University of Commerce.
Since 2009, she has been with the
university, specializing in the utilization of information technology to analyze consumer behavior and insights and
teaching digital image/video processing
techniques to undergraduate students
Hashimoto aiming to provide more power to WIE
and data mining techniques to graduate students. Her research centers on
social media analysis through data mining, with a focus on detecting reactions
to the large earthquake that occurred
in east Japan in March 2011. "We analyzed affected people's blogs [and] Twitter
an attractive and useful software system
As Prof. Takako Hashimoto, the 2015
and online bulletin boards related to the
by myself."
IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE)
earthquake with the intent to support
Graduating with a bachelor of science
chair, steps into her new role, she'll
affected people and establish the model
degree from Ochanomizu University in
do so with goals centered around
for people's change in reaction on social
1985, Hashimoto began her career as a
shared knowledge, connection, and
media after a disaster," she describes.
database engineer for The Ricoh Comcommunication-drawing heavily on
In the area of humanitarian technolpany, Ltd. in Japan. She transitioned into
her own background in industry, acaogy, Hashimoto adds, "I'm happy when
information broadcasting research in
demia, humanitarian technology, and
I feel my research may benefit society."
1997, when multimedia information proregional leadership roles within WIE.
The data collected from reactions around
cessing was an emerging research topic
"As the IEEE WIE chair, I'd love to
the earthquake is archived as an acthat she found intriguing. "Develengage members to empower female
engineers and students by leveraging
oping a new video-processing
count of a disaster, and, should
an unfortunate disaster such
system that could personalIEEE WIE's own strength," she says.
as this happen again, it
ize contents according
That means activating "the opporserves as a useful model
to viewers' preferences
tunities we provide for networking,
informing how to best supattracted me," she explains.
information sharing, mentoring, and
port affected people. As
"Through new systems I
finding role models a nd precious
part of an ongoing effort to
worked on, I wanted to realfriends through various membership
expand the support of people
ize a new lifestyle to watch
engagements."
and the community, Hashivideo programs."
The ability of role models to emTakako Hashimoto
moto serves on a committee
A f ter m a ny ye a rs in
power young women was experienced
that organizes a Humanitarian Technolindustry, Hashimoto was thinking of
first hand by Hashimoto while growogy Conference, where attendees discuss
a new lifestyle for herself as well. "I
ing up in Japan. Not only did a highly
technologies to support underserved
worked as an engineer for over 20 years,
respected boss advise her to join WIE,
people and share lessons learned from
and gradually I started to think that
but the example of a female high school
various activities.
I would like to share my experiences
teacher inspired Hashimoto to pursue
Hashimoto's emphasis on comwith young students to help their career
an engineering career altogether. "I
munity, knowledge sharing, and the
developments," she says. After completwanted to be independent like her," she
opportunities available to better society
ing her Ph.D. in computer science with
recalls. "In addition, I enjoyed computer
through technology make her a natua specialization in multimedia inforprogramming and was eager to develop
ral fit for IEEE, WIE, and their leadmation processing from the Graduate
ership committees. She first became
School of Systems and Information
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MWIE.2015.2408676
involved in 1997, when she presented
Engineering of University of Tsukuba,
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