Mark has diverse backgrounds both academically and professionally; he has three advanced degrees including MS in Mechanical Engineering and MS/Ph.D. in Regional Science (Economic Geography) from Cornell University, where he studied Complexity Science and collective human behaviors. His professional background includes consulting, retail, international trading, advertising, marketing research, and aviation industries.
Mark 15+ years’ experience with data science including predictive modeling, machine learning methods, optimization, computer vision and A.I. At Oceanit, he has developed an A.I. “toolbox” for A.I. workshops for educators and entrepreneurs. He is currently developing an A.I.-based computer vision model for detecting public infrastructure damages caused by natural disasters.
During the 2014 lava flow crisis in the Big Island of Hawaii Mark became known as a data visualization expert for socioeconomic data and has been featured in various news media. When the lava flow crisis took place again in 2018, he was invited to join the U.S. Department of the Interior Strategic Science Group to contribute his knowledge and experiences.
The 31st annual Texaco-DOE Honolulu District Elementary Speech Festival was held on Saturday, April 27, 2019 at Kaimukī High. 400 students, in grades 3 to 5, and 31 elementary schools participated. Various community organizations including the Rotary Club of West Honolulu were involved.
Thank you to Wes Fong, Michael Kato, Gayle Lau, Rodney Moriyama, Brittany Nagasawa, Jeff Pang, and Jason Adaniya for being volunteer judges for this non-competitive delightful event.
Since President Stan will be on vacation, we have changed the date of the Installation banquet at the Elks Club from Saturday, June 29, to Sunday, July 7, 5:30p. There were no other Saturdays available in June or July, therefore, Sunday was our only choice...
It is great pleasure to inform you that the Celebration Dinner for the 45h Anniversary of our Club will be held on the 7th of October, 2019 in Nagoya, Japan. We would like to invite you, your Anns, members of your Club and their Anns to honor this occasion. We also would like to invite you, your Anns, and all visitors from your Club to Welcome Dinner for our foreign visitors on the 6th of October, 2019. 1) Welcome Dinner on the 6th of October, 2019 (Sun) at Hotel Castle Plaza; 2) The 45th Anniversary Ceremony on the 6th of October, 2019 (Mon) at Hotel Castle Plaza. We are presently making plans for our 45th Anniversary activities and the details of the schedule will be informed to you in due course. We look forward to seeing you again in Nagoya, Japan this October.
Yours in Rotary,
Hidekazu Yamakita Masanori Inaguma President (2018-2019)
President (2019-2020) Kazunori Kurita Chairman of the Anniversary Committee
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I know you've attended our sister club anniversaries in the past or showed some interest, so here's some information about the Makati West 50th anniversary. I received tentative dates for their 50th anniversary from Past President Jay Tambunting. Their welcome dinner will be on November 22 and the 50th Anniversary Ball will be on November 23.
Five years ago they held their 45th anniversary in August, but the reason it was held in August was to accommodate then RI President Gary Huang's schedule.
Hope you can all join me in Makati in November 2019!
