Curriculum Vitae

[ Personal Information, Educational Background, Job Experience, Professional Actitivities, Awards and Honors, Research Grants, Others ]

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: RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project.; Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo.
Position: Director / Professor
Address: [RIKEN] Nihonbashi 1-chome Mitsui Building, 15th floor, 1-4-1 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0027, Japan; [UTokyo Kashiwa] Room 5H1, Building of Transdisciplinary Sciences, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba 277-8561, Japan; [UTokyo Hongo] Room 514, Faculty of Science Building No. 7, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
E-mail: sugi [at] k.u-tokyo.ac.jp
URL: http://www.ms.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~sugi/index.html

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

Apr. 2020 to Mar. 2026: iU Visiting Professor, Professional University of Information and Management for Innovation, Tokyo, Japan
Aug. 2018 to Mar. 2022: Visiting Professor, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
Jul. 2016 to: Director, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Tokyo, Japan.
Apr. 2016 to Jun. 2016: Senior Visiting Scientist, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Tokyo, Japan.
Apr. 2016 to Mar. 2017: Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
Apr. 2016 to Mar. 2017: Part-Time Lecturer, Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan.
May 2015 to Mar. 2019: Visiting Researcher, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan.
Oct. 2014 to Mar. 2016: Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
Oct. 2014 to: Professor, Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Mar. 2010 to Mar. 2015: Visiting Associate Professor (to Sep. 2014), Visiting Professor (from Oct. 2014), 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 Mar. 2014: 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 Sep. 2014: 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 Activities

Committee

Jun. 2024 to Mar. 2025,: Advisor and selection commitee One Earth Guardians.
Jun. 2024 to Mar. 2026,: Research Area Advisor, CRONOS, Japan Science and Technology Agency.
Apr. 2024 to Feb. 2025: Expert Committee, Council for Science and Technology, MEXT.
Apr. 2024 to Mar. 2026: Member, Singapore National Research Foundation, College of Experts.
Apr. 2024 to Mar. 2026: Steering Committee Member, Institute of Statistical Mathematics.
Mar. 2024 to Dec. 2024: Evaluation Panel Member, Singapore Global AI Visiting Professorship.
Feb. 2024 to Mar. 2024: Member, Preparatory Committee for the Strategic Basic Research Programs (Information and Communication Science Promotion Program), Japan Science and Technology Agency.
Oct. 2023 to Sep. 2025,: Member, The Expert Panel (EP) for the Informatics and Mathematics discipline cluster, Singapore Ministry of Education.
May 2023 to Mar. 2025,: Advisor, ACT-X "Innovations in Mathematical and Information Sciences to Build the Next-Generation AI", Japan Science and Technology Agency.
Jan. 2023 to Mar. 2023: Member, Committee for the Promotion of International Cooperation in Science and Technology, International Science and Technology Cooperation Infrastructure Development Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency.
Dec. 2022 to Mar. 2023: Mentor, Good Life on Earth Program, Toyota Mobility Foundation.
Oct. 2022 to Mar. 2025: Member, The 2nd AI Informatics Sectoral Committee, Center for Research and Development Strategy, Japan Science and Technology Agency.
Aug. 2022 to: International advisor, Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), Foundation of Machine Learning Physics.
Aug. 2022: Examinar, Masason Foundation.
Jun. 2022 to Jun. 2024: Chair, IEICE, Information-Based Induction Sciences and Machine Learning (IBISML) Technical Group.
Apr. 2022: Examinar, Masason Foundation.
Jan. 2022 to Mar. 2027: Advisor, NISTEP, MEXT.
Nov. 2021 to Nov. 2024: Committee, New Technology Effectiveness Evaluation Committee, Cabinet Office.
Nov. 2021 to: Steering Committee Honorary Member, Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML).
Sep. 2021 to Oct. 2023,: Honorary AI Fellow, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR.
Aug. 2021: Examinar, Masason Foundation.
Jun. 2021 to Mar. 2025,: Member, MIRAI Program Research and Development Steering Committee, Japan Science and Technology Agency.
Jun. 2021 to Mar. 2025: Member, NISTEP Fixed-Point Survey Committee, MEXT.
Apr. 2021 to Apr. 2023: Extraordinary Committee, Health Science Council, Miinistry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
Apr. 2021 to May 2021: Examinar, Masason Foundation.
Mar. 2021 to Mar. 2021: Member, Next NISTEP Fixed-Point Survey Design Review Committee, MEXT.
Nov. 2020 to Mar. 2022: Member, Global Partnership on AI Domestic Committee.
Nov. 2020 to Nov. 2021: Distinguished Contribution Award Committee, Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML).
Sep. 2020 to Mar. 2021: Member, Review Meeting for Mathematics/Data Science/AI Education Program Certification System (Basic-Advanced Level), Cabinet Office.
Sep. 2020 to Aug. 2022: Member, International Scientific Advisory Board, Center on Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Science, Business and Society (Hi Paris).
Sep. 2020 to Mar. 2026,: Advisor, FOREST Program, Japan Science and Technology Agency.
Aug. 2020: Examinar, Masason Foundation.
Nov. 2019 to Mar. 2020: Member, Review Meeting for Mathematics/Data Science/AI Education Program Certification System (Literacy Level), Cabinet Office.
Nov. 2019 to Mar. 2020: Member, Working Group on Asia Health Plan, Cabinet Secretariat.
Oct. 2019 to Mar. 2023: Member, AI Steering Committee, Cabinet Office.
May. 2019 to Mar. 2020: Exhibition supervision cooperation, The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), Japan Science and Technology Agency.
Apr. 2019 to Mar. 2023: Vice President, AI Data Consortium.
Feb. 2019 to Mar. 2025: Committee, Tokyo Tech Academy for Convergence of Materials and Informatics External Evaluation Committee, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Feb. 2019 to Mar. 2023: Member, AI Network Society Promotion Council AI Economy Meeting, MIC.
Jan. 2019 to Mar. 2020: Collaborator, WWL Consortium Bbuilding Support Project Planning Evaluation Meeting, MEXT.
Nov. 2018 to Nov. 2021: Steering Committee Chair, Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML).
Nov. 2018 to Nov. 2019: Distinguished Contribution Award Commitee, Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML).
Nov. 2018 to Oct. 2021: Councilor, Learning of Tomorrow.
Sep. 2018 to Mar. 2025: Expert Committee, Advanced Communication/Broadcasting Research and Development Contract Research Evaluation Committee, NICT.
Nov. 2018 to Mar. 2019: Judging Committee, 4th Big Data Analysis Contest, IoT Acceleration Lab and METI.
Sep 2018 to Mar. 2019: Committee, NISTEP Science and Technology Prediction Survey, MEXT.
Aug. 2018 to Jul. 2020: Member, G1 Deep Learning Study Group.
Aug. 2018 to Aug. 2022: Member, Cancer Genome Medicine Promotion Consortium Steering Council, MHLW.
Aug. 2018 to Mar. 2023: Evaluator, SIP Advanced Diagnosis and Treatment Ssystem by AI Hostpical, Cabinet Office.
Aug. 2018 to Sep. 2021: Committee, Innovative Business Activity Evaluation Committee, Cabinet Office.
Jun. 2018 to Mar. 2019: Committee, IT Professionals Supply and Demand Survey Expert Committee, METI.
May 2018 to Mar. 2026: Advisor, Japanese Association for Medical Artificial Intelligence.
Apr. 2018 to Mar. 2025: Grant Selection Committee, Funai Foundation.
Apr. 2018 to Mar. 2026: Selection Committee, Tateishi Science and Technology Foundation.
Jan. 2018 to Sep. 2020: Member, 24th Term Subcommittee, Science Council of Japan.
Jan. 2018 to Sep. 2018: Extraordinary Committee, Japan Meteorological Agency Transportation Policy Council, MLIT.
Dec. 2017 to Sep. 2021: Member, Robot Study Working Group towards Tokyo2020, The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Dec. 2017 to Nov. 2018: Member, Minister's Meeting on Human Resource Development for Society5.0, MEXT.
Jul. 2017 to Mar. 2018: Judging Committee, 3rd Big Data Analysis Contest, IoT Acceleration Lab and METI.
Apr. 2017 to Mar. 2025: Committee, Center for AI Research, Tsukuba University.
Apr. 2017 to Mar. 2018: Observer, Council on Competitiveness-Nippon (COCN).
Apr. 2017 to Mar. 2019: Delegate, The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.
Apr. 2017 to Mar. 2024: Member, AI Network Society Promotion Council, MIC.
Mar. 2017 to Jun. 2017: Member, Cancer Genome Medicine Promotion Consortium, MHLW.
Dec. 2016 to Jun. 2024: Selection Committee, SECOM Science and Technology Foundation.
Dec. 2016 to Dec. 2022: Executive Board Member, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS).
Sep. 2016 to Sep. 2018, Apr. 2021 to Mar. 2023,: Vice-President, Universal Future Society Promotion Council, MEXT.
Sep. 2016,: Judging Committee, 2nd Big Data Analysis Contest, IoT Acceleration Lab and METI.
Jun. 2016 to Mar. 2024,: Research Area Advisor, CREST "Development and Integration of Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Innovation Acceleration", Japan Science and Technology Agency.
Jan. 2016 to Jul. 2016,: Member, Working Group on AI and Brain Research, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
Nov. 2015 to Nov. 2018,: Steering Committee Co-chair, Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML).
May 2015 to Mar. 2019,: Expert Committee, Advanced Communication/Broadcasting Research and Development Contract Research Evaluation Committee, NICT.
Dec. 2014 to Sep. 2017.: Member, 23rd Term Subcommittee, Science Council of Japan.
May 2014 to Jun. 2022.: Vice Chair, IEICE, Information-Based Induction Sciences and Machine Learning (IBISML) Technical Group.
Apr. 2013 to Mar. 2022.: Delegate JSIAM
Dec. 2012 to Nov. 2014: Member, JSPS KAKENHI Committee.
Apr. 2012 to Mar. 2013.: Councilor JSIAM
Apr. 2012 to Mar. 2014: Chair, JSIAM, Machine Learning (ML) Activity Group.
Apr. 2012 to: Committee Member, Data Engineering Robotics, Robotics Society of Japan.
Feb. 2012 to Sep. 2014.: 22nd Term Subcommittee, Science Council of Japan.
Nov. 2010 to Nov. 2015: Steering Committee Member, Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML)
May 2010 to April 2014: Manager, IEICE, Information-Based Induction Sciences and Machine Learning (IBISML) Technical Group.
Jul. 2009 to Sep. 2011.: 21st Term Subcommittee, Science Council of Japan.
May 2009 to April 2015: 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

Jan. 2024 to: Associate Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
Nov. 2021: Guest Co-editor, Machine Learning Journal, Special Issue on Weakly Supervised Representation Learning.
Oct. 2020: Guest Co-editor, Springer Nature Computer Science, Topical Issue on Selected Papers from 12th Asian Conference on Machine Learning.
Oct. 2020: Guest Co-editor, Neural Networks, Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science.
Aug. 2020: Guest Co-editor, The Fields Institute Communications Series on Data Science and Optimization.
Jan. 2019 to: Editorial Board Member, Frontiers of Computer Science.
Jan. 2018 to Dec. 2019 and Aug. 2023 to: Editorial Board Member, Machine Learning.
Sep. 2017 to Dec. 2023: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
Dec. 2015: Special Section Editor-in-Chief, Simulation Special Section on "Recent Advances in Machine Learning".
Mar. 2015: Guest Co-editor, Machine Learning, Special Issue of Fifth Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2013).
Sep. 2013: Special Issue Editor-in-Chief, Transactions of the Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , Special Issue on Machine Learning.
2012 to: 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 Asian 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 Jun. 2022: 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

May 2025: Senior Area Chair, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS2025).
April 2025: Senior Area Chair, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR2025).
Feb. 2025: Area Chair, The 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2025).
Dec. 2024: Area Chair, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM2024).
Dec. 2024: Co-organizer, Fine-Tuning in Modern Machine Learning: Principles and Scalability at NeurIPS2024.
Dec. 2024: Senior Area Chair, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS2024).
Nov., 2024: General Chair, International Workshop on Weakly Supervised Learning (WSL2024).
Jul. 2024: Senior Area Chair, 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2024).
Jun.-Jul. 2024: Award Chair, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI2024).
Jun. 2024: Co-organizer, WCCI 2024 Open Forum on AI Governance .
Jun. 2024: Program Co-chair, IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE-CAI2024).
May 2024: Senior Area Chair, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR2024).
May 2024: Senior Program Committee and Award Committee 28th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2024).
May 2024: Senior Area Chair, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS2024).
Apr. 2024: Senior Program Committee, 2024 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2024).
Feb. 2024: Area Chair, The 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2024).
Dec. 2023: Senior Area Chair, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS2023).
Nov., 2023: Program Co-chair, International Workshop on Weakly Supervised Learning (WSL2023).
Aug. 2023: Program Committee, 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM2023).
May 2023: Senior Program Committee, 27th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2023).
May 2023: Area Chair, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR2023).
Apr. 2023: Senior Area Chair, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS2023).
Apr. 2023: Senior Program Committee, 2023 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2023).
Nov. 2022: Co-organizer, Weakly Supervised Learning Workshop at ACML2022.
Dec. 2022: Co-organizer, NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Distribution Shifts: Connecting Methods and Applications.
Nov.-Dec. 2022: Senior Area Chair, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS2022).
Nov. 2022: Advisory Committee, Online Asian Machine Learning School (OAMLS2022).
Jul. 2022: Senior Area Chair and Outstanding Paper Award Committee, 39th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2022).
Jul. 2022: Oganizing Committee, Fifth International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning (SNL2022).
Jun. 2022: Organizer, IBISML Special Session on New Trends in Machine Learning.
May 2022: Senior Program Committee, 26th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2022).
Apr. 2022: Senior Program Committee, 2022 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2022).
Apr. 2022: Area Chair, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR2022).
Mar.-Apr. 2022: Area Chair, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS2022).
Feb.-Mar. 2022: Area Chair, Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2022).
Dec. 2021: Senior Area Chair, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS2021).
Dec. 2021: Advisor, NeurIPS Meetup Japan 2021.
Nov. 2021: Co-organizer, Weakly Supervised Learning Workshop at ACML2021.
Nov. 2021: Advisory Committee, Online Asian Machine Learning School (OAMLS2021).
Aug. 2021: Co-organizer, IJCAI2021 Weakly Supervised Representation Learning Workshop.
Aug. 2021: Survey Track Chair, The 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2021).
Jul. 2021: Senior Area Chair, 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2021).
Jun.-Jul. 2021: Oganizing Committee, Fourth International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning (SNL2021).
May 2021: Senior Program Committee, 25th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2021).
May 2021: Area Chair, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR2021).
Apr. 2021: Area Chair, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS2021).
Mar. 2021: Senior Program Committee, 2021 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2021).
Feb. 2021: Area Chair, Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2021).
Dec. 2020: Mentor, NeurIPS2020: The Second Group Session for Newcomers to Machine Learning (NewInML2020).
Dec. 2020: Senior Area Chair and Best Paper Award Committee, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS2020).
Dec. 2020: Advisor, NeurIPS Meetup Japan 2020.
Nov. 2020: Co-organizer, Weakly Supervised Representation Learning Workshop at ACML2020.
Nov. 2020: Program Co-chair, The 12th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2020).
Oct. 2020: Organizer, IBISML Organized Session on Robust Machine Learning.
Oct. 2020: Co-organizer, International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science.
Aug. 2020: Program Committee, The 10th World Congress in Probability and Statistics.
Jul. 2020: Area Chair, Newcomer Menter, and Test of Time Award Committee, 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2020).
Jul. 2020: Co-organizer, International Workshop on Tensor Network Representations in Machine Learning at IJCAI2020.
Jul. 2020: Associate Program Chair, The 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2020).
Jun.-Jul. 2020: Oganizing Committee, Fourth International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning (SNL2020).
May 2020: Senior Program Committee, 24th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2020).
May 2020: Co-organizer, SDM2020 Workshop on Weakly Supervised and Unsupervised Learning.
May 2020: Senior Program Committee, 2020 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2020).
May 2020: Co-organizer, AI/ML Expert Workshop.
Apr. 2020: Area Chair, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR2020).
Feb. 2020: Area Chair, Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2020).
Dec. 2019: Mentor, NeurIPS2019: The First Group Session for Newcomers to Machine Learning (NewInML2019).
Nov. 2019: Co-organizer, 2nd IRCN Neuro-intelligence Workshop.
Nov. 2019: Honorary Co-chair, The 11th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2019).
Nov. 2019: Co-organizer, ACML2019 Workshop on RIKEN-AIP Research.
Nov. 2019: Co-organizer, ACML2019 Workshop on Weakly Supervised Learning.
Nov. 2019: Organizing Committee, The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Focus Program on Data Science and Optimization.
Sep. 2019: Co-organizer, 1st IRCN Neuro-intelligence Workshop.
Aug. 2019: Senior Program Committee, The 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2019).
Jul. 2019: Oganizing Committee, Third International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning (SNL2019).
Jun. 2019: Senior Area Chair, 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2019).
May 2019: Senior Program Committee, 2019 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2019).
Apr. 2019: Senior Program Committee, 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2019).
Apr. 2019: Program Co-chair, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS2019).
Feb. 2019: Organizing Co-chair, The Second Korea-Japan Machine Learning Workshop (KJML2019).
Feb. 2019: Area Chair, Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2019).
Dec. 2018: Program Chair, WINTER FESTA Episode 4.
Dec. 2018: Area Chair, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS2018).
Nov. 2018: Journal Track Co-chair, The 10th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2018).
Jul. 2018: Area Chair, The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2018).
Jul. 2018: Area Chair, 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2018).
Jul. 2018: Oganizing Committee Chair, Second International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning (SNL2018).
Jun. 2018: Senior Program Committee, 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2018).
May 2018: Senior Program Committee, 2018 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2018).
Mar. 2018: Organizing Committee Chair, Tokyo Deep Learning Workshop (TDLW2018).
Feb. 2018: Senior Program Committee, Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2018).
Nov. 2017: General Co-chair, The 9th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2017).
Nov. 2017: General Chair, 20th Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2017).
Sep. 2017: Co-Organizer, France-Japan Machine Learning Workshop.
Aug. 2017: Program Committee, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2017).
Aug. 2017: Senior Program Committee, 34th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2017).
Aug. 2017: Senior Program Committee, The Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2017).

Aug. 2017: International Advisor, Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS2017).
Jul. 2017: Coordinator, IPSJ Seminar Series 2017.
Jul. 2017: Oganizing Committee, First International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning (SNL2017).
May 2017: Senior Program Committee, 21st Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2017).
Apr. 2017: Senior Program Committee, 2017 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2017).
Apr. 2017: Senior Program Committee, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS2017).
Feb. 2017: Senior Program Committee, Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2017).
Dec. 2016: General Co-chair, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2016).
Nov. 2016: Senior Program Committee, The 8th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2016).
Aug. 2016: Scientific Committee, Asia-Pacific Econophysics Conference (APEC2016).
Aug. 2016: Program Committee, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2016).
Aug. 2016: Technical Program Committee, Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2016).
Jul. 2016: Program Committee, The 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2016).
Jun. 2016: Program Committee, 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2016).
May 2016: Program Committee, 2016 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2016).
Apr. 2016: Senior Program Committee, 20th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2016).
Feb. 2016: Program Committee, Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2016).
Dec. 2015: Program Co-chair, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2015).
Nov. 2015: Senior Program Committee, The 7th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2015).
Oct. 2015: General Co-chair, International Symposium on Information Technology Convergence (ISITC 2015) .
Aug.-Sep. 2015: Organizing Committee Co-chair, 29th Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS2015).
Aug. 2015: Program Committee, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2015).
Jul. 2015: Area Chair, The 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2015).
Jun. 2015: Program Committee, 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2015).
May 2015: Senior Program Committee, 19th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2015).
May 2015: Program Committee, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS2015).
Apr. 2015: Program Committee, 2015 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2015).
Dec. 2014: Program Committee, 10th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA2014).
Nov. 2014: Senior Program Committee, The 6th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2014).
Oct. 2014: Program Committee, International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT2014).
Sep. 2014: Program Committee, International Workshop on Learning over Multiple Contexts (LMCE2014).
Aug. 2014: Program Committee, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2014).
Aug. 2014: Technical Committee 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2014).
Jul. 2014: Technical Program Committee, Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2014).
Jun. 2014: Program Committee, 31st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2014).
May 2014: Senior Program Committee, 18th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2014).
May 2014: Program Committee, IEEE/ASE International Conference on Big Data (BigData2014) .
Apr. 2014: Senior Program Committee, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS2014).
Apr. 2014: Program Committee, 2014 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2014).
Mar. 2014: Program Committee, International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM2014).
Jan. 2014: Program Committee, International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp2014).
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).
Nov. 2013: Program Chair, 16th Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2013).
Oct. 2013: Program Committee, International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT2013).
Sep. 2013: Program Committee, IEEE/ASE 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).
Aug.-Sep. 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 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

2018: Si-An Chen, Master student, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. (Primary supervisor: Prof. Hsuan-Tien Lin)
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

Oct. 31, 2023: IEICE TC-IBISML Research Award Finalist, IEICE, Information-Based Induction Sciences and Machine Learning (IBISML) Technical Group.
Jun. 9, 2023: Best Paper Award , International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2023.
Dec. 13, 2022: ACML Distinguished Contribution Award, Asian Conference on Machine Learning.
Sep. 14, 2022: FIT Funai Achievement Award, Forum on Information Technology.
Apr. 20, 2022: Awards for Science and Technology, Research Category, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Nov. 12, 2021: IEICE TC-IBISML Research Award Finalist, IEICE, Information-Based Induction Sciences and Machine Learning (IBISML) Technical Group.
Nov. 19, 2020: Best Paper Award, The 12th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2020).
Nov. 17, 2019: Best Paper Award, ACML2019 Weakly Supervised Learning Workshop.
Mar. 18, 2019: KDDI Foundation Awards, KDDI Foundation.
Nov. 20, 2018: Best Poster Presentation Award, The First Japan-Israel Machine Learning Meeting (JIML2018).
Nov. 6, 2018: IEICE TC-IBISML Research Award 1, IEICE, Information-Based Induction Sciences and Machine Learning (IBISML) Technical Group
Nov. 6, 2018: IEICE TC-IBISML Research Award 2, IEICE, Information-Based Induction Sciences and Machine Learning (IBISML) Technical Group
Mar. 3, 2018: Fellow, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
Nov. 16, 2017: Best Paper Runner-up Award, The 9th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2017)
Feb. 8, 2017: Japan Academy Medal, The Japan Academy
Feb. 8, 2017: 13th JSPS Prize, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Nov. 26, 2015: IEICE TC-IBISML Research Award Finalist, IEICE, Information-Based Induction Sciences and Machine Learning (IBISML) Technical Group
Mar. 15, 2015: Excellent Paper Award, 20th Robotics Symposia
Apr. 23, 2014: Notable Paper Award, Seventeenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS2014)
Apr. 15, 2014: The Young Scientists' Prize, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Article)
Dec. 7, 2013: Best Paper Award, Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI2013)
Nov. 30, 2013: Best Paper Award, 11th Workshop on Informatics (WiNF2013)
Jun. 19, 2012: IEICE TC-IBISML Research 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

Mar., 2023: Collaborative Research Project (CORE), Microsoft Research Asia.
Apr. 2021 to Mar. 2024: Practical Research for Innovative Cancer Control, 21ck0106643h0001 (collaborator), The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Jun. 2020: Bilateral Exchange Projects Joint Research/Seminars, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Apr. 2020 to Mar. 2023: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 20H04206 (collaborator), The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Apr. 2020 to Mar. 2023: Research Grant, JST Acceralation (co-PI), Japan Science and Technology Agency.
Jul. 10, 2019: Google AI Focused Research Award, Google AI for Japan.
Apr. 2017 to Mar. 2022: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), 17H00757, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Apr. 2017 to Mar. 2020: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 17H01760 (collaborator), The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Oct. 2014 to Mar. 2020: Research Grant, CREST (Big Data Foundation) (co-PI), Japan Science and Technology Agency.
Apr. 2014 to Mar. 2017: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 26280054 (collaborator), The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Apr. 2014 to Mar. 2015: Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, 2604730, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Apr. 2013 to Mar. 2017: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A), 25700022, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Mar. 28, 2013: Special Grant, Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD).
Nov. 15, 2013: Research Grant, Kayamori Foundation of Information Science Advancement.
Oct. 2012 to Mar. 2015: Research Grant, CREST (Energy Management System) (collaborator), Japan Science and Technology Agency.
Dec. 2011 to Sep. 2014: 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 (co-PI), 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 (collaborator), 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

Awards for Supervised Students and Coauthors

Mar. 12, 2024: Wei Wang, 2023 Ohbu Award (Researcher Incentive Award), RIKEN.
Mar. 22, 2023: Shuo Chen, 2022 RIKEN Baiho Award, RIKEN.
Mar. 21, 2023: Johannes Ackermann, Microsoft Research Asia D-CORE (2023) Award.; Wei Wang, Microsoft Research Asia D-CORE (2023) Award.
Mar., 2023: Masahiro Fujisawa, Dean's Award (Doctor), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo.
Mar., 2022: Nontawat Charoenphakdee, Dean's Award (Doctor), Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.
Mar. 23, 2022: Yivan Zhang, 2021 RIKEN Baiho Award, RIKEN.; Jingfeng Zhang, 2021 Ohbu Award (Researcher Incentive Award), RIKEN.
Mar., 2022: Shintaro Nakamura, Microsoft Research Asia D-CORE (2022) Award.; Xin-Qiang Cai, Microsoft Research Asia D-CORE (2022) Award.
Dec., 2021: Yuko Kuroki, Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists, Inoue Foundation for Science.
Nov. 12, 2021: Masahiro Fujisawa, Excellent Presentation Award 2021 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2021).
Mar. 10, 2021: Takeshi Teshima, 2020 Ohbu Award (Researcher Incentive Award), RIKEN.
Mar., 2021: Yivan Zhang, Dean's Award (Master), Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.; Takashi Ishida, Dean's Award (Doctor), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo.; Yuko Kuroki, Dean's Award (Doctor), Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.
Nov. 26, 2020: Han Bao, Best Presentation Award 2020 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2020).; Takeshi Teshima, Excellent Presentation Award 2020 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2020).; Taira Tsuchiya, Excellent Presentation Award 2020 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2020).; Takashi Ishida, Excellent Presentation Award Finalist 2020 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2020).; Voot Tangkaratt, Excellent Presentation Award Finalist 2020 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2020).; Yuko Kuroki, Excellent Presentation Award Finalist 2020 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2020).
Nov. 16, 2020: Yivan Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia D-CORE (2021) Award.
Oct. 19, 2020: Yuko Kuroki, JST ACT-X "Frontier of Mathematics and Information Science".; Takashi Ishida, JST ACT-X "Frontier of Mathematics and Information Science".
Oct. 8, 2020: Nontawat Charoenphakdee, Google PhD Fellowship.
Mar. 12, 2020: Bo Han, 2019 RIKEN Baiho Award, RIKEN.
Mar. 10, 2020: Voot Tangkaratt, 2019 Ohbu Award (Research Incentive Award & Industry Partnership Incentive Award), RIKEN.
Mar., 2020: Masahiro Fujisawa, Dean's Award (Master), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo.; Yusuke Tsuzuku, Dean's Award (Master), Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.; Futoshi Futami, Dean's Award (Doctor), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo.
Dec. 25, 2019: Yuko Kuroki, Microsoft Research Asia D-CORE (2020) Award.; Nan Lu, Microsoft Research Asia D-CORE (2020) Award.
Nov. 22, 2019: Yuko Kuroki, Best Student Presentation Award, 2019 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2019).; Han Bao, Student Presentation Award, 2019 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2019).
Sep. 19, 2019: Futoshi Futami, JST ACT-X "Frontier of Mathematics and Information Science".
Jul. 8, 2019: Takashi Ishida, Google PhD Fellowship.
May. 24, 2019: Gang Niu, 2018 RIKEN Baiho Award, RIKEN.
May 10, 2019: Takashi Ishida, Travel Award, 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2019).; Nontawat Charoenphakdee, Travel Award, 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2019).
Mar., 2019: Takeshi Teshima, Dean's Award (Master), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo.; Liyuan Xu, Dean's Award (Master), Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.
Dec. 1, 2018: Si-An Chen (Primary supervisor: Prof. Hsuan-Tien Lin), Master Thesis Award, Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence (TAAI).
Nov. 20, 2018: Han Bao, Best Poster Award, The First Japan-Israel Machine Learning Workshop.
Nov. 7, 2018: Yusuke Tsuzuku, Excellent Student Presentation Award, 2018 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2018).
Oct. 27, 2018: Nan Lu, Travel Award, 13th Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML2018).
Oct. 16, 2018: Ikko Yamane, Travel Award, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2018).; Takashi Ishida, Travel Award, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2018).; Motoya Onishi, Travel Award, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2018).
Sep. 18, 2018: Han Bao, JST ACT-I "Information and Future".
Jul. 31, 2018: Futoshi Futami, Google PhD Fellowship.
Apr. 21, 2018: Han Bao, AIP Network Lab Director Award, Second AIP Challenge Program, Japan Science and Technology Agency.
Mar. 15, 2018: Gang Niu, RIKEN Research Incentive Award 2017, RIKEN.
Mar., 2018: Yusuke Tsuzuku, Dean's Award (Bachelor), Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo.; Weihua Hu, Dean's Award (Master), Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.; Tomoya Sakai, Dean's Award (Doctor), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo.
Nov. 25, 2017: Futoshi Futami, Travel Award, NIPS 2017 Workshop on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference.
Oct. 5, 2017: Futoshi Futami, Travel Award, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2017).; Takashi Ishida, Travel Award, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2017).; Ryuichi Kiryo, Travel Award, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2017).
Jun. 21, 2017: Tomoya Sakai, Travel Award, 34th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2017).; Weihua Hu, Travel Award, 34th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2017).
Apr. 22, 2017: Weihua Hu, AIP Network Lab Director Award, First AIP Challenge Program, Japan Science and Technology Agency.
Nov. 17, 2016: Voot Tangkaratt, Best Student Presentation Award, 2016 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2016).
Sep. 4, 2015: Kiyoshi Irie, Incentive Award, the 32nd Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan.
Nov. 17, 2014: Hiroaki Sasaki, Best Young Researcher Award, 2014 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2014).; Hyunha Nam, Best Student Award, 2014 Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2014).
Oct. 18, 2014: Kishan Wimalawarne, Travel Award, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2014).
Feb. 18, 2014: Ning Xie, Tejima Doctor Dissertation Award, Tokyo Institute ot Technology.
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.

Masashi Sugiyama (sugi [at] k.u-tokyo.ac.jp)