Shiro IKEDA Associate Processor, Learning and Inference Group, Department of Mathematical Analysis and Statistical Inference; Statistical Genome Diversity Research Group, Prediction and Knowledge Discovery Research Center

Phone: +81-50-5533-8500 E-mail: shiro Personal Homepage: http://www.ism.ac.jp/~shiro/ Date of Birth: December, 1968 Education: Bachelor of Engineering, Dept. of Engineering, Univ. of Tokyo, 1991. Master of Engineering, Dept. of Engineering, Univ. of Tokyo, 1993. Doctor of Engineering, Dept. of Engineering, Univ. of Tokyo, 1996. Degree: Doctor of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1996, Title of Doctoral Thesis: Estimating the structure of the sources. Employment: 1996 - 1998, Special Postdoctoral Researcher, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) 1998 - 2001, Researcher, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation(JST) 2001 - 2003, Associate Professor, Department of Brain Science and Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology 2003 - 2005, Associate Professor, Department of Statistical Methodology, Institute of Statistical Mathematics 2005 - present, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Analysis and Statistical Inference; Prediction and Knowledge Discovery Research Center, Institute of Statistical Mathematics Research Fields: Information geometry, Stochastic inference, Statistical learning theory Research Themes: Analysis of loopy belief propagation, Independent component analysis

Selected Papers
(1) Independent component analysis for noisy data-MEG data analysis, Neural Networks, 13(10) (2000), 1063-1074 (co-authored).
(2) An approach to blind source separation based on temporal structure of speech signals, Neurocomputing, 41(1-4) (2001), 1-24 (co-authored).
(3) Combined approach of array processing and independent component analysis for blind separation of acoustic signals, IEEE transaction on Audio and Speech Processing, 11(3) (2003), 204-215 (co-authored).
(4) Information geometry of turbo and low-density parity-check codes, IEEE transaction on Information Theory, 50(6) (2004), 1097-1114 (co-authored).
(5) Stochastic reasoning, free energy, and information geometry, Neural Computation, 16(9) (2004), 1779-1810 (co-authored).

Membership of Academic Societies
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers; Japanese Neural Network Society; IEEE

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