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. 1997

Bachelor of Engineering from Department of Computer Science, Faculty of 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. 2001

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

Job Experience

Sep. to Nov. 2000

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

Aug. to Sep. 2001

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

Apr. 2001 to Dec. 2002

Research Associate, 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

Jan. 2003 to Present

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

Jun. 2003 to Oct. 2004

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

Aug. to Sep. 2005

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

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

Oct. 2006 to

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

Oct. 2008

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

Oct. 2009 to Mar. 2013

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

Professional Actitivities

• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
• Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS)
• Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)
• (SIAM) (2008-)
• (AAAI) (2008-)

Committee Member/Organizer

1997-1998

IEEE Tokyo Tech Student Branch, Vice-Chair.

1998-1999

IEEE Tokyo Tech Student Branch, Chair.

1999-2000

IEEE Tokyo Tech Student Branch, Secretary.

Jul. 2003

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

Dec. 2006

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

Apr. 2007-Mar. 2008

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

Jun. 2007

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

Nov. 2007

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

Dec. 2007

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

Apr. 2008-

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

Jun. 2008

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

Sep. 2008

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

Oct. 2008

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

Oct. 2008-

Editorial Board Member, Neural Networks.

Apr. 2009

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

May 2009 to May 2011

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

Jun. 2009

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

Jul. 2009

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

Jul. 2009

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

2009

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

Jul. 2009

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

Jul. 2009 to Sep. 2011.

Subcommittee, Science Council of Japan.

Sep. 2009

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

Sep. 2009

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

Oct. 2009

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

Nov. 2009

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

Dec. 2009

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

Dec. 2009

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

Dec. 2009

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

Jun. 2010

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

Jul. 2010

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

Sep. 2010

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

Oct. 2010

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

Nov. 2010

Program Committee Chair, The 2nd Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2010).

External Thesis Advisor

2005

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

2006

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

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

2008-2009

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

Awards and Honors

Jun. 17, 1998

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

Mar. 29, 2000

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

Mar. 26, 2001

1st Prize, IEICE Precipitation Estimation Contest

Sep. 28, 2001

Young Researcher Award, Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS)

Feb. 28, 2002

Niwa Memorial Award, Tokyo Denki University

Mar. 20, 2002

Doctor Dissertation Award, Tejima Foundation for Industry and Education

Mar. 21, 2003

Information Technology Award, Funai Foundation for Information Technology

Mar. 26, 2003

Nakamura Research Award, Tejima Foundation for Industry and Education

Jun. 21, 2007

Incentive Award, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)

Oct. 29, 2007

Faculty Award, IBM (Article 1, Article 2)

Dec. 7, 2007

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

Jun. 21, 2008

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

Jul. 30, 2008

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

Oct. 17, 2008

Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Award.

Research Grants

Mar. 10, 1999

Travel Grant, Tokyo Institute of Technology Centennial Anniversary Fundation

Jun. 22, 1999

Travel Grant, The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation

Apr. 16, 2001

Travel Grant, Foundation for C&C Promotion

Apr. 2001 to Mar. 2002

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 11480072 (allotment), 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. 2002 to Mar. 2003

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

Jul. 8 to 19, 2002

Scholarship, NATO Advanced Study Institute on Learning Theory and Practice

Oct. 21, 2002

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

Mar. 24 to Apr. 1, 2003

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

Jul. 2003 to Oct. 2004

Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Apr. 2005 to Mar. 2008

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

Oct. 18, 2005

Travel Grant, Tokyo Institute of Technology DoCoMo Foundation

Mar. and Aug. to Sep. 2006

Erasmus Mundus Scholar, European Commission Program

Apr. 2006 to Mar. 2009

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

Nov. 22, 2006

Research Grant, The Okawa Foundation for Information and Technology

May 17, 2007

Research Grant, Tateishi Science and Technology Foundation

Jul. 2007 to Jun. 2008

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

Octl. 2007 to ???

Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) Program Computationism as Foundations of Science (CompView)

Nov. 2007 to Sep. 2009

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, 1907364, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Apr. 2008 to Mar. 2011

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

Oct. 2008

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

Dec. 1, 2008

Research Grant, JFE 21st Century Foundation

Mar. 6, 2009.

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

Apr. 20, 2009.

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

Oct. 2009 to Mar. 2013

Research Grant, JST-PRESTO (Synthesis of Knowledge for Information Oriented Society)

Others

Feb. 20, 2002

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

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.

Jul. 2008

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

Feb. 2009

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

Apr. 2009

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

Jul. 2009

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

Mar. 2010

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