増井 俊之
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増井 俊之/Toshiyuki Masui
株式会社Helpfeel テクニカルフェロー
1984年 東京⼤学⼤学院工学系研究科修⼠課程修了。⼯学博⼠。シャープソフトウェア研究所、ソニーコンピュータサイエンス研究所、産業技術総合研究所などに勤務。⽶国Appleに在籍時、iPhoneの日本語フリック⼊⼒システムを開発。「POBox」、「QuickML」、「本棚.org」、 「Gyazo」、「Cosense」、「Helpfeel」などの発明者。放送大学 客員教授（2023〜）。慶應義塾⼤学環境情報学部 名誉教授（2025）。
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「発明家」増井俊之の歩み
Toshiyuki Masui, Technical fellow
Toshiyuki Masui is Professor of Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japan. Before joining Keio University, he worked at many IT companies and laboratories including Fujitsu, Sharp, Sony, AIST, and Apple. For many years, he has been working on improvements of the user interface of computers, mobile phones, and information appliances in the coming age. In 2001, he developed a predictive Japanese text input system "POBox" for Sony's mobile phones, and the technology is now the standard input method on almost all the Japanese mobile phones. In 2006, he got headhunted from Apple for the development of iPhone's Japanese text input system, and his 'flick-based' Japanese text input method is now the standard for Japanese smartphones.
He is the inventer of the "Gyazo" image capturing service and the "Scrapbox" information management system provided by Nota Inc., Japan, where he serves as the CTO. Around 10M users are using Gyazo worldwide, and Nota acquired $2M from Japanese VCs for the service in 2014. His current research interest includes text input techniques, information retrieval, information visualization, IoT technologies, and authentication techniques.
Prof. Masui received BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1982 and 1984, respectively. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Tokyo in 1997.
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