Hiromi Oda

Biography

Hiromi Oda is director of the Community and Interactive Media Lab (HP Labs Japan), which is exploring the fusion of the development of new types of interactive media and the transformation of community interactions and user experiences in such environments.

Oda joined HP Labs, the company’s central research and development arm, in 2001 as a member of the Personalization and Text Analysis Group at HP Labs Japan. He applied his knowledge on natural language and text analysis techniques mostly on projects dealing with data analysis of online communities.

Since 2006, Oda has been leading the Rich and Trusted Communications Group, which developed the Community Research Framework and its companion platform to analyze, verify and test various aspects of online communities including information flow, trust, reputation, privacy, topic transition and community detection.

He holds a Ph.D. in cognitive science and linguistics from Indiana University. His research interests range over the broad areas that center around communicative human interactions. He first studied theoretical linguistics and expanded it into computational modeling of mental language processing, then into more communicative and interactionist perspectives.

Recent interests include social and non-verbal aspects of communicative interactions in the real world and the online or virtual space. He also has some works in the analysis of gestural dialogues in artificial settings.

Oda studied at Kanagawa University, Waseda University and Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan, and he taught at Azabu University in Kanagawa, Japan for several years.

Research interests

Natural-language processing, online communities and text analysis of on online community interactions. Other recent interests include social and non-verbal aspects of communicative interactions in the real world and the online or virtual space and analysis of gestural dialogues in artificial settings.