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CV Publication and awards Affiliation
Curriculum vitae
EDUCATION

September 2003
- present
MPhil/PhD program
Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
University College London
Main subjects studied: Spatial analyses and simulation of
pedestrian movements
April 2002
- September 2003
PhD program (I am currently taking temporary leave from this)
Graduate School of Frontier Science
University of Tokyo
Main subjects studied: Geographic information systems (GIS) ,
Spatial analyses and Behavioral science
March 2002 Master of Environmental Science (MSc)
Graduate School of Frontier Science
University of Tokyo
Main subjects studied: Geographic information systems (GIS) ,
Spatial analyses and Behavioral science
March 2000 Bachelor of Art (BA, Hons)
Department of Social Psychology
Faculty of Letters
University of Tokyo
Main subjects studied: Behavioral Science, Group Dynamics
WORK EXPERIENCE

September 2004
- present

 

Research assistant

- Working on EPSRC funded CAPABLE project (Children's Activities, Perceptions and Behaviour in the Local Environment).
Current studies include:

  • Data collection on children's behaviour using GPS and accelerometers
  • Literature review and analysis of secondary data
  • Analysis of children's movement patterns and network
April 2002
- September 2003
Research assistant
- Initiated a research project on multi-agent simulation of pedestrian movement and developed several measurement systems to detect such movement

Institute of Industrial Science
Centre for Spatial Information Science
University of Tokyo

April 2002
- September 2003

Teaching assistant
- Taught an introduction course of Geographical Information Sciences for masters students

Graduate School of Frontier Science
University of Tokyo

OTHER EXPERIENCE

October 1999
- present

English-Japanese translator of treatises on current affairs on a part-time basis in Kyodo News Agency.

detailed info

June 2001
- May 2003
Resident assistant (graduate student mentor) in Tokyo International Exchange Center to support international students, who are studying at graduate level in Japanese university, by planning various social and information sessions designed to help them adjust to life in Tokyo as well as giving advice.
October 2000
- August 2001

Worked for ALMEC corporation (a Japanese urban design consultancy that specialized in traffic management and town planning) as an assistant consultant on a part-time basis.

detailed info (Japanese)

February 2001
- March 2001
Internship in System Design & Creation Laboratory of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,Ltd (a Japanese think tank that specialized in social system planning based on Information technologies.)

detailed info (Japanese)

April 1999
- September 1999

Member of Arc academy; a group of academics, developers, urban consultants and local government officials to produce draft plans for redevelopment of the central Tokyo.

detailed info (Japanese)

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Computer Literacy Knowledge and experience in PC (Windows and Macintosh).
Programming skills of JAVA, VB
Foreign Languages

Japanese - Mother tongue
English - TOEIC 915 (January 2001), TOEFL-CBT 260 (April 2003)
French - Basic literacy

GIS ArcView, MapInfo
Statistical
Techniques
Knowledge and experience in conducting social survey and statistical analyses (SAS, SPSS)

Applications for Design

Skills of using CAD system (Form-Z, AutoCAD, VectorWorks), Shade, Photoshop, Illustrator

portfolio

Publication
PAPER FOR CONFERENCES

September 2005
(planned)
Kitazawa, K
Supporting Walking Policy with automatic counting of flows
WALK21-VI EVERYDAY WALKING CULTURE (Zurich)
July 2004 Kitazawa, K., Batty, M. (2004)
Pedestrian Behaviour Modelling:An Application to Retail Movements using a Genetic Algorithm
7th International Conference on Design and Decision Support
Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning
June 2003 Kitazawa, K., Zhao, H., Shibasaki, R. (2003)
A Study on Measurement Systems and Basic Patterns of Pedestrian Movement in Railway Stations (in Japanese)
Proceedings of Infrastructure Planning, No.27 (CD-ROM)

May 2003

Kitazawa, K., Zhao, H., Shibasaki, R. (2003)
A Study for Agent-based Modeling of Migration Behavior of Shoppers
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management (CD-ROM)

November 2002

Kitazawa, K., Shibasaki, R. (2002).
A Study on Behavior Modeling of Pedestrian
Proceedings of the 23rd Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (CD-ROM)

November 2002

Tanaka, H., Kitazawa, K., Shibasaki, R., (2002).
A Study On Modeling Of Human Spatial Behavior Using Agent.
Proceedings of the 23rd Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (CD-ROM)

December 2000

Kitazawa, K., Konishi, Y., Shibasaki, R. (2000).
A Method of Map Matching for Personal Positioning Systems
Proceedings of the 21st Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Vol.2, 2000.12 pp726-731

Digital copies of proceedings

OTHER PUBLICATION

May 2003 Kitazawa, K., Zhao, H., Shibasaki, R. (2003)
Development of Measurement Systems of Pedestrian Movement in Railway Stations (in Japanese)
The 2nd Research Competition with investigation and marketing of train users' behavior (held by East Japan Railroad Marketing & Communications Inc.)
June 2001

Kitazawa, K., Konishi, Y., Shibasaki, R.
A Method of Map Matching for Personal Positioning Systems (in Japanese)
Proceedings of the student session of GEOINFORMATION FORUM JAPAN 2001

PRESENTATION

March 2005

Presentation at 5th Swiss Transport Research Conference

New Approaches to Urban Modelling: Agents, Cells, Representations and Visualizations

detailed info

August 2002

Presentation and demonstration of remote sensing technologies for tracking pedestrian movement at:

detailed info

AWARDS AND GRANTS

December 2004 Graduate School Research Projects Fund
University College Lodon
July 2004 Graduate School Student Conference Award
University College Lodon
September 2003 - present The Overseas Research Students (ORS) Awards
from University College London and Universities UK
May 2003 The Most Promising Research Award
in the 2nd Research Competition with investigation and marketing of train users' behavior (held by East Japan Railroad Marketing & Communications Inc.)
December 2000 ACRS Best Speaker Award from JSPRS (Japan Society forr Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) in the 21st Asian Conference on Remote Sensing

August 1999 - March 2000

TBS Research Grant for Mass-Media Studies
from Tokyo Broadcasting Systems Inc.

Affiliation
Centre for Advanced Spacial Analysis
University College London
The Bartlett

Shibasaki lab
University of Toky
o
Center for spatial information science
Institute of Industrial Science

Department of Social Psychology

University of Tokyo

University of Tokyo


Institute of Environmental
Science

Graduate School of Frontier Science