Yusuke Takahashi, Phd Email and Phone Number

Yusuke Takahashi, who was born in Takasaki, Gunma, Japan, received his B.A. (Policy Management) in 2003, M.M.G. in 2005, and Ph.D. (Media and Governance) in March 2009 from Keio University, Japan. Since 2005, he had been with Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University, as a researcher until the spring of 2009. His research addressed knowledge base systems, semantic transformation among heterogeneous databases, multidatabase systems, data analysis and its visualization, and databases in education and personal career development. He has been concentrating in design/development/consultation of database systems/knowledge base systems/multimedia database systems, design/development/consultation of web-based applications, and design/development/consultation of graphic design works including card/postcard/calendar/book. He was a part-time lecturer at Takasaki City University of Economics (2010-2012). He is now Founder and CEO of AppSocial.ly, a San Francisco based startup providing a platform for making apps go viral. He is also a writer at TechCrunch Japan, GrowthHacker.jp and Shimizukobundo (Japanese academic publisher), and a Contributor at The Bridge (formerly known as Startup-Dating) and NIKKEI BP (so-called Japan's Wall Street Journal). He is a member of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), Database Society of Japan (DBSJ) and Japan Society of Educational Technology (JSET).