Naoya Iwata
Associate Professor, Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya University
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University (Concurrent)
Research Associate, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National Institute of Informatics (Concurrent)
Research Areas: Ancient Philosophy, Digital Humanities, Knowledge Engineering
Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Digital Humanities, Western Classics, Plato, Aristotle, Knowledge Engineering, Graph RAG, Greek Mathematics, Epistemology, Metaphysics
1. Employment History
Sep, 2025 – Present: Research Associate, National Institute of Informatics
Apr, 2024 – Present: Associate Professor, Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya University
Apr, 2023 – Present: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University
Apr, 2020 – Mar, 2023: Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities, Fukuoka University
Mar, 2018 – Mar, 2020: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
Jan, 2016 – Jan, 2018: JSPS Overseas Research Fellow, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
Jan, 2015 – Dec, 2015: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ancient Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
2. Education
2015: PhD in Ancient Philosophy, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
2009: MA in Ancient Philosophy, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
2007: BA, Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University
3. Selected Publications
2024, 'Improving Semantic Search Accuracy of Classical Texts through Context-Oriented Translation' (with I. Tanaka & J. Ogawa), Proceedings of IPSJ SIG Computers and the Humanities Symposium.
2024, 'Utilizing Large Language Models for Research and Education in Western Classics' (with I. Tanaka & J. Ogawa), Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, 38.
2023, 'Aristotle's Concepts of Analysis', Journal of Classical Studies, 70, pp. 13-24.
2018, 'Plato's Recollection Argument in the Philebus', Rhizomata, 6(2), pp. 189–212.
2015, 'Plato on Geometrical Hypothesis in the Meno', Apeiron, 48(1), pp. 1–19.
For a full list of publications, see Researchmap.
4. Awards
Sep, 2025: IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award, Information Processing Society of Japan
Dec, 2024: Best Poster Prize, IPSJ SIG Computers and the Humanities Symposium 2024
5. Grants & Funding
2025 – 2030: Next-Generation AI Researcher Development Program (BOOST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
2023 – 2028: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2024 – 2026: Research Grant, Mitsubishi Foundation
2024 – 2026: Research Grant, Hagiwara Foundation
2018 – 2021: Postdoctoral Fellowship, The British Academy