Curriculum Vitae of Masashi Sugiyama

Personal Information

Name

Masashi Sugiyama

Degree

Doctor of Engineering, Mar. 26, 2001, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Date of Birth

Nov. 9, 1974

Birthplace

Neyagawa, Osaka, Japan

Nationality

Japanese

Affiliation

Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Position

Associate Professor

Address

2-12-1-W8-74, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8552, Japan

TEL & FAX

+81-3-5734-2699

E-mail

sugi [at] cs.titech.ac.jp

URL

http://sugiyama-www.cs.titech.ac.jp/~sugi/

Educational Background

Mar. 2001

Doctor of Engineering from Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Mar. 1999

Master of Engineering from Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Mar. 1997

Bachelor of Engineering from Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Job Experience

Mar. 2010 to Now

Visiting Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.

Oct. 2009 to Mar. 2013

PRESTO Researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan.

Oct. 2008

Research-in-Pairs Program Researcher, Mathematisches Forshungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO), Oberwolfach, Germany

Oct. 2006 to Now

Part-Time Lecturer, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

Mar. and Aug. to Sep. 2006

Visiting Professor (European Commission Program Erasmus Mundus Scholar), Statistical Machine Learning and Motor Control Group, Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Aug. to Sep. 2005

Visiting Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute, FIRST, IDA, Berlin, Germany

Jun. 2003 to Oct. 2004

Visiting Professor (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow), Fraunhofer Institute, FIRST, IDA, Berlin, Germany

Jan. 2003 to Present

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Aug. to Sep. 2002

Visiting Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute, FIRST, IDA, Berlin, Germany

Aug. to Sep. 2001

Guest Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute, FIRST, IDA, Berlin, Germany

Apr. 2001 to Dec. 2002

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Sep. to Nov. 2000

Visiting Scientist, GMD, FIRST, IDA, Berlin, Germany

Professional Actitivities

Apr. 2013 to

Delegate JSIAM

Dec. 2012 to Nov. 2013

Member, JSPS KAKENHI Committee.

Apr. 2012 to

Councilor JSIAM

Apr. 2012 to

Chair, JSIAM, Machine Learning (ML) Activity Group.

Apr. 2012 to

Committee Member, Data Engineering Robotics, Robotics Society of Japan.

Nov. 2010 to

Steering Committee Member, Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML).

Aug. 2010 to

Editorial Committee of Society Journal, IEICE.

May 2010 to

Manager, IEICE, Information-Based Induction Sciences and Machine Learning (IBISML) Technical Group.

Jul. 2009 to Sep. 2011.

Subcommittee, Science Council of Japan.

May 2009 to

Committee Member, IEICE, Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding (PRMU) Technical Group.

Jun. 2008 to

Technical Committee Member, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE-RAS), Technical Committee on Robot Learning.

Apr. 2008 to Mar. 2009

Senior Committee Member, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Special Interest Group on Data Mining and Statistical Mathematics (JSAI SIG-DMSM).

Apr. 2007 to Mar. 2008

Committee Member, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Special Interest Group on Data Mining and Statistical Mathematics (JSAI SIG-DMSM).

1999-2000

IEEE Tokyo Tech Student Branch, Secretary.

1998-1999

IEEE Tokyo Tech Student Branch, Chair.

1997-1998

IEEE Tokyo Tech Student Branch, Vice-Chair.

Editor/Editorial Committee of Journals

Dec. 2011

Special Issue Editor-in-Chief, Transactions of the Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , Special Issue on Machine Learning.

2012 to 2015

Associate editor, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST).

Dec. 2011

Guest Co-editor, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST), Special Issue of Second Asia Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2010).

Oct. 2011

Special Issue Editor-in-Chief, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Special Issue on Information-Based Induction Sciences and Machine Learning.

Mar. 2011

Guest Co-editor, Majlesi Journal of Electrical Engineering, Special Issue on Cognitive Information Processing.

Mar. 2010 to

Editorial Board Member, Intelligent Data Analysis - An International Journal

Nov. 2010

Guest Co-editor, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST), Special Issue on Domain Adaptation in Natural Language Processing.

Oct. 2010

Special Section Editor-in-Chief, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Special Section on Data Mining and Statistical Science.

Oct. 2009

Special Issue Editorial Committee, New Generation Computing, Special Issue on Data-Mining and Statistical Science.

Jul. 2009

Special Section Editorial Committee, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Special Section on Large Scale Algorithms for Learning and Optimization.

Oct. 2008 to

Editorial Board Member, Neural Networks.

Jul. 2003

Special Issue Editorial Committee Member, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Special Issue on Multiresolution Analysis.

Committee Member/Organizer of Conferneces and Workshops

Mar. 2014

Program Committee, International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM2014).

Dec. 2013

Program Committee, 9th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA2013).

Nov. 2013

Senior Program Committee, The 5th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2013).

Oct. 2013

Program Committee, International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT2013).

Sep. 2013

Program Committee, International Conference on Big Data (BigData2013) .

Aug. 2013

Program Committee, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2013).

Aug. 2013

Senior Program Committee, The Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2013).

Jun. 2013

Coordinator IPSJ Seminar Series 2013.

May 2013

Program Committee, Workshop on Partially Supervised Learning (PSL2013).

May 2013

Program Committee, 2013 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2013).

Apr.-May 2013

Program Committee, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS2013).

Apr. 2013

Senior Program Committee, 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2013).

Feb. 2013

Program Committee, 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI2013).

Feb. 2013

Program Committee, International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM2013).

Dec. 2012

Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA2012).

Dec. 2012

Area Chair, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2012).

Nov. 2012

Senior Program Committee, The 4th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2012).

Oct. 2012

International Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE-SMC2012).

Sep. 2012

Program Committee, The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD2012).

Jul.-Aug. 2012

Organizing Committee Co-chair, 21st Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS2012).

Jun.-Jul. 2012

Program Committee, European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL2012).

Jun.-Jul. 2012

Program Committee, 29th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2012).

May. 2012

Senior Program Committee, 16th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2012).

Apr. 2012

Program Committee, 2012 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2012).

Mar. 2012

Program Co-chair, International Workshop on Statistical Machine Learning for Speech Processing (IWSML2012).

Feb. 2012

Program Committee, International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM2012).

Dec. 2011

Program Committee, ICDM 2011 PhD Student Forum.

Dec. 2011

Program Committee, ICDM2011 Workshop: The Fifth International Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources (MMIS2011).

Dec. 2011

Program Committee, ICDM2011 Workshop on Optimization Based Methods for Emerging Data Mining Problems (OEDM2011).

Dec. 2011

Program Committee, 7th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA2011).

Dec. 2011

Area Chair, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2011).

Sep. 2011

Organizing Committee, IEICE Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding (PRMU) Technical Group, Algorithm Contest.

Sep. 2011

Program Committee, 2011 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP2011).

Aug. 2011

Program Committee, The 17th annual ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2011).

Jul. 2011

Senior Program Committee, The Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2011): Integrated and Embedded AI (IEAI) Track.

Jun. 2011

Program Committee, 28th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2011).

Jun. 2011

Area Chair, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN2011).

Apr. 2011

Senior Program Committee, 2011 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2011).

Nov. 2010

Organizer, CompView GCOE Symposium.

Nov. 2010

Program Committee Co-chair, The 2nd Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2010).

Sep. 2010

Organizing Committee, IEICE Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding (PRMU) Technical Group, Algorithm Contest.

Sep. 2010

Program Committee, The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD2010).

Jul. 2010

Senior Program Committee, 16th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2010).

Jun. 2010

Program Committee, 27th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2010).

Dec. 2009

Program Committee, NIPS2009 Workshop on Transfer Learning for Structured Data (TLSD-09).

Dec. 2009

Program Committee, ICDM2009 Workshop: The 1st International Workshop on Transfer Mining (TM09).

Dec. 2009

Program Committee, ICDM2009 Workshop on Optimization Based Methods for Emerging Data Mining Problems (OEDM2009).

Nov. 2009

Area Chair, The 1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2009).

Oct. 2009

Program Committee, The fourth International Conference on Stochastic Algorithms: Foundations and Applications (SAGA2009).

Sep. 2009

Organizing Committee, IEICE Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding (PRMU) Technical Group, Algorithm Contest.

Sep. 2009

Program Committee, Learning from non-IID data: Theory, Algorithms and Practice, ECML-PKDD2009 Workshop.

Sep. 2009

Program Committee, The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD2009).

Jul. 2009

Program Committee, The Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2009).

Jul. 2009

Workshop Co-chair, The International Workshop on Data-Mining and Statistical Science (DMSS2009).

Jun. 2009

Program Committee, 26th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2009).

Apr. 2009

Program Committee, 2009 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2009).

Oct. 2008

Program Chair, 11th Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2008).

Sep. 2008

Workshop Chair, The International Workshop on Data-Mining and Statistical Science (DMSS2008).

Jun. 2008

Program Committee, 2008 IAPR Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing (CIP2008).

Dec. 2007

Organizer, GCOE Workshop on Statistical Machine Learning Theory and its Applications.

Nov. 2007

Program Committee, 10th Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2007).

Jun. 2007

Program Committee, 24th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2007).

Dec. 2006

Co-organizers, Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS2006) Workshop on Learning When Test and Training Inputs Have Different Distributions.

External Thesis Advisor

2008-2009

Makoto Yamada, PhD student, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Kanagawa, Japan. (Primary supervisor: Prof. Tomoko Matsui)

2006

Hirotaka hachiya, MSc, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. (Primary supervisor: Prof. Sethu Vijayakumar)

Christopher Towell, MSc, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. (Primary supervisor: Prof. Sethu Vijayakumar)

2005

Sami Hanhijäarvi, MSc, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland. (Primary supervisor: Prof. Olli Simula)

Awards and Honors

Jun. 19, 2012

IBISML Award Finalist, IEICE, Information-Based Induction Sciences and Machine Learning (IBISML) Technical Group.

Apr. 14, 2012

Funai Award, Funai Foundation for Information Technology

Dec. 16, 2011

JNNS Best Paper Award, Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS).

Sep. 21, 2011

JSPE Technology Award, Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE).

Jun. 2, 2011

Nagao Special Researcher Award, Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).

Jul. 29, 2010

Best Interactive Session Award, Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding 2010 (MIRU2010)

Jun. 10, 2010

Incentive Award, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) SIG-DMSM

May 13, 2010

Incentive Award, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), PRMU Technical Group.

Oct. 17, 2008

Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Award, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Jul. 30, 2008

Best Paper Runner-up Award, Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding 2008 (MIRU2008)

Jun. 21, 2008

Ando Incentive Prize for the study of Electronics, the Foundation of Ando Laboratory

Dec. 7, 2007

Odawara Award 2nd Prize, Vision Engineering Workshop (ViEW2007)

Oct. 29, 2007

Faculty Award, IBM (Article 1, Article 2)

Jun. 21, 2007

Incentive Award, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) SIG-DMSM

Mar. 26, 2003

Nakamura Research Award, Tejima Foundation for Industry and Education

Mar. 21, 2003

Information Technology Award, Funai Foundation for Information Technology

Mar. 20, 2002

Doctor Dissertation Award, Tejima Foundation for Industry and Education

Feb. 28, 2002

Niwa Memorial Award, Tokyo Denki University

Sep. 28, 2001

Young Researcher Award, Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS)

Mar. 26, 2001

1st Prize, IEICE Precipitation Estimation Contest

Mar. 29, 2000

Young Engineer Award, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)

Jul. 23, 1998

Inose Science Promotion Award, The Foundation of Electrical, Electronics, and Information Science Promotion

Research Grants

Apr. 2013 to Mar. 2017

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A), 25700022, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Nov. 15, 2013

Research Grant, Kayamori Foundation of Information Science Advancement.

Oct. 2012 to Mar. 2015

Research Grant, CREST (Energy Management System), Japan Science and Technology Agency.

Dec. 2011 to Mar. 2018

Program for Leading Graduate Schools: Education Academy of Computational Life Science (collaborator), The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Aug. 2011 to Mar. 2016

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, 23120004, Elucidation of Neural Computation for Prediction and Decision Making: Toward Better Human Understanding and Applications, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Apr. 8, 2011.

Special Grant, Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD).

Apr. 2011 to Mar. 2014

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 23300069 (collaborator), The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Mar. 2010 to Mar. 2014

Research Grant (collaborator), Kitsuregawa FIRST Program, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan.

Oct. 2009 to Mar. 2013

Research Grant, PRESTO (Synthesis of Knowledge for Information Oriented Society), Japan Science and Technology Agency.

Apr. 20, 2009

Research Grant, Support Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology Research, Foundation (SCAT).

Mar. 6, 2009

Special Grant, Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD).

Dec. 1, 2008

Research Grant, JFE 21st Century Foundation.

Oct. 2008

Research-in-Pairs Program Researcher, Mathematisches Forshungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO), Oberwolfach, Germany.

Apr. 2008 to Mar. 2012

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A), 20680007, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Nov. 2007 to Sep. 2009

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, 1907364, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Oct. 2007 to Mar. 2012

Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) Program, Computationism as Foundations of Science (collaborator), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Jul. 2007 to Jun. 2008

3rd Microsoft Institute for Japanese Academic Research Collaboration (IJARC) Collaborative Research Project (CORE).

May 17, 2007

Research Grant, Tateishi Science and Technology Foundation.

Nov. 22, 2006

Research Grant, The Okawa Foundation for Information and Technology.

Apr. 2006 to Mar. 2009

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 18300057 (collaborator), The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Mar. and Aug. to Sep. 2006

Erasmus Mundus Scholar, European Commission Program.

Oct. 18, 2005

Travel Grant, Tokyo Institute of Technology DoCoMo Foundation.

Apr. 2005 to Mar. 2008

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 17700142, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Mar. 24 to Apr. 1, 2003

Grant for Young Researcher Exchange Program, Tokyo Institute of Technology-Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.

Oct. 21, 2002

Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad (declined), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Jul. 8 to 19, 2002

Scholarship, NATO Advanced Study Institute on Learning Theory and Practice.

Apr. 2002 to Mar. 2003

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (2), 14380158 (collaborator), The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Apr. 2002 to Mar. 2003

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 14780262, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Apr. 2001 to Mar. 2002

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 11480072 (collaborator), The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Apr. 16, 2001

Travel Grant, Foundation for C&C Promotion.

Jun. 22, 1999

Travel Grant, The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation.

Mar. 10, 1999

Travel Grant, Tokyo Institute of Technology Centennial Anniversary Fundation.

Others

Mar. 13, 2013

Keisuke Nakata, Best Presentation Award, the Japan Society for Precision Engineering 2013 Student Meeting

May 11, 2012

Ning Xie, Student Travel Grant, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2012).

Gang Niu, Student Travel Grant, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2012).

Christo du Plessis, Student Travel Grant, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2012).

Mar. 7, 2012

Hisashi Kashima, IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award, Information Processing Society of Japan.

Nov. 3, 2011

Tingting Zhao, Travel Award, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2011).

May. 30, 2011

Nicole Krämer, PLS Award, Addinsoft.

Mar. 3, 2011

Yasuyuki Ihara, Nominated for Incentive Award, Dynamic Image Processing for Real Application (DIA2010).

Nov. 2010

Makoto Yamada, Honorable Mention, The 13th Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2010).

Mar. 2010

Hirotaka Hachiya, Young Researcher Award, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Japan Chapter.

Jul. 2009

Takayuki Akiyama, Student Travel Grant, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2009).

Apr. 2009

Makoto Yamada, Student Travel Grant, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2009).

Feb. 2009

Tatsuya Yokota, Best Presentation Award, Department of International Development Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Jul. 2008

Hirotaka Hachiya, Student Scholarship, Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2008).

Oct. 2006

Neil Rubens, Student Travel Grant, 2006 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences.

Hirotaka Hachiya, Student Travel Grant, 2006 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences.

Feb. 20, 2002

Lee Changsu, Silver Prize, Samsung Electronics 8th Humantech Thesis Prize Award.