Biography

Last Updated:November 30, 2022 by Katsuhiko Ishiguro.

Education

    2004: B. Engineering from University of Tokyo,
      Mechano Informatics minor, Dept. of Engineering.
    2006: M. Informatics from University of Tokyo,
      Dept. of Mechano-Informatics, Graduate School of Information Sci. and Tech.
    2010: Ph. D. - Doctor of engineering - from University Of Tsukuba,
      Dept. of Computer Science, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering.
      Title: Statistical approach to time series data analysis and modeling

Career

      2005 -- 2006: Techinal Stuff at National Institute for Advanced Science and Technology (AIST)
      2016 -- 2018: Research Engineer at Mirai Translate, Inc.
      2016 -- 2018: Project Manager at NTT DoCoMo.
      2018 -- present: Researcher at Preferred Networks, Inc.

Honors and Awards

      2010: Presentation award, Information Processing Society of Japan, Special interest group of Mathematical modeling and Problem Solving.
      2011: Math & Stats award, Purchase Log Data Analysis Contest, NTT Cyber Communication Laboratory Group.
      2011: Director encouragin prize, NTT Communication Science Laboratories.
      2013: Interactive Preesntation award, The 16th Mettings for Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2013)
      2018: Distinguished Reviewer, International Joint Conference on Artificial Interlligence 2018 (IJCAI-18)
      2022: Best Paper Award, the International Workshop on Multimedia for Cooking, Eating, and related APPlications (CEA++2022)

Profssional Memberships, Services

      Member of: IEEE (not now)
      Program Comittee: IBIS2014, IBIS2017
      Reviewer of journals: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, IEICE Transactions (Japanese,English), IPSJ Transactions (Japanese, English).
      Reviewer of conferences: NIPS/NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI, AAAI, MIRU, ICPR, NIPS workshop on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference, IROS, Subspace, ACCV, 4S/AVIC.