Marie Katsurai received her B.S. degree in Engineering, the M.S. degree, and the Ph.D. degree in Information Science and Technology from Hokkaido University in 2010, 2012, and 2014, respectively. She is currently an associate professor with the Department of Intelligent Information Engineering and Sciences, Doshisha University. Her research interests include multimedia information retrieval and academic data mining. She is also a member of IEICE, IEEE, and ACM.