Takako Hashimoto graduated from the Ochanomizu University, and received a Ph.D. in computer science, specialization in multimedia information processing, from the Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering of University of Tsukuba in 2005. She worked at the software R and D center of Ricoh Co. Ltd., in Japan for 24 years, and participated in the development of many software products as a technical leader. She has a rich project management experience including international collaborative research handling as well. From April of 2009, she was involved in Chiba University of Commerce as Associate Professor. In 2015, she has become Professor of Chiba University of Commerce. In 2015, she stayed at University of California, Los Angeles as a visiting researcher. She has become Director of Institute of Economic Research, Chiba University of Commerce in 2016 and the Vice President of Chiba University of Commerce in 2018. She is served as a Board Member of the Database Society of Japan and IEEE Japan Council. She got the 2019 MGA Larry K. Wilson Transnational Award, one of the most prestigious awards in IEEE. She has focused on the data mining research and the social media analysis, especially topic extraction from millions of tweets related to the East Japan Great Earthquake. She is developing the topic extraction technique for big data. She’s also conducting global researches for achieving SDGs in diverse environment.

In 2019, she received the 2019 MGA Larry K. Wilson Transnational Award , one of the most prestigious awards in IEEE. Fellow of the Information Processing Society of Japan.