She received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering- Parallel Algorithm Processing- from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2000. Her research interests include Human-Centered Computing applied to Leaming Management Systems and based on Multi-Agent Systems. She is currently working on "Group Collaborative Leaming" as well as "Educational Data Mining (EDM)" with a pedagogical approach. In addition, Web Services are also another concern of her research to solve the composition problem from an ontology-based perspective.