Shiori Sasaki received her M.A. degree in Law & Politics in 1998 and Ph. D. degree in Media and Governance in 2010 from Keio University. She has been an assistant professor of Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University from 2004. Her research interests are in the field of Information Modelling, Knowledge Database, Multimedia Retrieval and Analysis, Cross-Cultural Communication, Information Visualization, Document Analysis, International Relations and Educational Technology. She is currently involved in several national and international research projects.