Curriculum Vita
(May 22nd, 2013)
Family Name

Wakano（若野）Given Name

Yuichiro（友一郎）

Preferred Name

Joe Yuichiro Wakano

NationalityJapanese

Language

Japanese (mother tongue), English (written and spoken)

Date of Birth

May 6th, 1973

GenderMale

Marital status

SingleWork Address

School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences (IMS)
Meiji University
4-21-1 Nakano, Nakano-ku
Tokyo, Japan 164-8525

Work Phone+81-3-5343-8351

Emailjoe@meiji.ac.jp

Employment
Apr 2013 --Associate Professor
School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences
Meiji University

Oct 2009 -- Mar 2013

PRESTO researcher (adjunct)Japan Science and Technology Agency

Sep 2007 -- Mar 2013

Specially Appointed Associate Professor
Meiji Institute for Advanced Mathematical Sciences /Graduate School of Advanced Mathematical Sciences
Meiji University

Apr 2006 -- Aug 2007

Postdoctoral position by "Gakushin PD"
Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciencein collaboration with Prof. Kenichi Aoki

Jun 2003 -- Mar 2006

Postdoctoral position by "21st century COE"in collaboration with Prof. Kenichi Aoki
Department of Biological Sciences
The University of Tokyo

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Apr 2001 -- May 2003

Technical Officer
Department of Chemical System Engineering
The University of Tokyo

Ph.D Thesis
Mar 23rd, 2001
Doctor of Science, Kyoto University"Adaptationandevolutionarydynamicsof

socialtraits

ofcreatures

ingame-theoretical situations", supervised by Prof. Norio Yamamura

Education
Mar 1998

Master of Science (Biology), Kyoto University

Apr 1996 -- Mar 2001

Graduate student
Centre for Ecological Research
Department of Biological Sciences
Kyoto University

Mar 1996

Bachelor of Science, Kyoto University

Apr 1992 -- Mar 1996

Undergraduate student
Faculty of Science, Kyoto University

Apr 1989 -- Mar 1992

Nada high school

Apr 1986 -- Mar 1989

Nada middle high schoolAward
Sep 2006

The 1st JSMB Young Scholar Award
Japanese-Korean joint meeting for Mathematical Biology(Sep 16-18, 2006, Kyushu University)Award Lecture title: "Evolution of Social Learning"

Academic Background
Biology

ecology, ethology, evolutionary game theory, population genetics

Physicsmechanics, electromagnetics, statistical mechanics, field theory,

Mathematics

linear algebra, complex analysis, dynamical system,
bifurcation analysis, center manifold theory,
reaction diffusion systems,
Markov chain, stochastic differential equaion)

2Computer Skills
Numerical integration and visualization of reaction diffusion systems (mainly by theoriginal C code, somtimes by FreeFEM++)
Individual- or agent-based simulations
Programming language (mainly by C, sometimes by JAVA, C++, VisualBasic)
Parallel computing by MPI/Open-MP
UNIX based network administration (SMTP, POP, IMAP, WWW, DNS and Sambaservers)
Mathematica
LaTeX and MS-Word Equation editor

Teaching
Differential equations (Undergraduate course, Meiji University)
Linear algebra (Undergraduate course, Meiji University)
Mathematical biology (Graduate course, Meiji University)
Mathematical sciences (English course for graduate students, Meiji University)

PersonalInterests

Learning mathematics which is new to me
History (politics and wars are good examples of game theory)
Weather system

Hobbies

Sports (skiing, racing kart, skin diving)Bridge (bridge bidding reminds me of evolution of language)
Travelling
Computer games of a serious kind (flight/drive simulator;
war simulation)3