Kazuo Iwama ( ja, 岩間一雄, born January 1, 1951) is a Japanese

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who works at

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.Curriculum vitae
retrieved 2016-07-08. Topics in his research include stable marriage,

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Education and career

Iwama earned bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from Kyoto University in 1973, 1975, and 1980 respectively. He taught at

Kyoto Sangyo University is a private university in Kyoto, Japan. History The university was established in 1965. The founder was Toshima Araki (, 1897–1978), and Hideo Iwakuro (岩畔豪雄 Iwakuro Hideo, 10 October 1897 – 22 November 1970), the Japanese spy m ...

from 1978 to 1990, when he moved to

Kyushu University , abbreviated to , is a Japanese national university located in Fukuoka, on the island of Kyushu. It was the 4th Imperial University in Japan, ranked as 4th in 2020 Times Higher Education Japan University Rankings, one of the top 10 Desig ...

. In 1997 he returned as a professor to Kyoto University. Currently he is working as a project professor.

Academic service

Iwama became the founding president of the Asian Association for Algorithms and Computation in 2007. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the journal ''Algorithms'', in 2008. Since 2013 he has been editor-in-chief of the '' Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science''.

Awards and honors

Iwama received an honorary doctorate from the

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in 2008, and was elected to the

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in 2012.Academia Europaea member profile
retrieved 2016-07-08.

Selected publications

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References

External links

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