Shogo KATO
Assistant Professor
Mathematical Statistics Group
Department of Mathematical Analysis and Statistical Inference
E-mail: skato
Education: Bachelor of Science, Keio University, 2003
Master of Science, Keio University, 2005
Personal
Homepage:		 http://www.ism.ac.jp/~skato/
Degree: Doctor of Science, Keio University, 2007
Title of Doctoral Thesis: Dependent Models for Data Which Include Angular Observations
Employment: (2007-2008) Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Keio University, Japan
(2007-2008) Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The Open University, UK
(2008-2009) Postdoctoral Fellow, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan
(2009-Present) Assistant Professor, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan
Honors &
Awards: 		(1) Outstanding Student Paper Award: "A Bivariate Circular Distribution with Uniform Marginals" (2006)
IMST2007 FIM XV International Conference on Interdisciplinary Mathematical and Statistical Techniques, Lisbon, Portugal.
(2) Excellent Paper Award: "A Markov Process for Circular Data" (2007)
SCRA2006 FIM XIII International Conference on Interdisciplinary Mathematical and Statistical Techniques, Shanghai, China.
(3) Outstanding Paper Award for Young Researchers: "The Generalized t -Distribution on the Circle" (2009)
Japanese Society of Applied Statistics, Tokyo, Japan.
Research
Fields:		 Statistical Science
Research
Themes:		 Directional Statistics, Distribution Theory, Bioinformatics, Robust Estimation.

Selected Papers
(8) Kato, S. (2010). A Markov process for circular data, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology), 72, 655-672.
(7) Kato, S. and Jones, M.C. (2010). A family of distributions on the circle with links to, and applications arising from, Möbius transformation, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 105, 249-262.
(6) Eguchi, S. and Kato, S. (2010). Entropy and divergence associated with power function and the statistical application, Entropy, 12, 262-274.
(5) Kato, S. (2009). A distribution for a pair of unit vectors generated by Brownian motion, Bernoulli, 15, 898-921.
(4) Faravani, M., Baki, B.B., Kato, S., Shimizu, K. and Sim, C.H. (2009). Effects of intra-plant competition on the ensuing spatial branching patterns of Straits Rhododenron, Research Journal of Environmental Sciences, 3, 427-438.
(3) Siew, H.-Y., Kato, S. and Shimizu, K. (2008). The generalized t -distribution on the circle, Japanese Journal of Applied Statistics, 37, 1-16.
(2) Kato, S., Shimizu, K. and Shieh, G.S. (2008). A circular-circular regression model, Statistica Sinica, 18, 633-645.
(1) Kato, S. and Shimizu, K. (2008). Dependent models for observations which include angular ones, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 3538-3549.

Membership of Academic Societies
Japan Statistical Society, Japanese Society of Applied Statistics, Mathematical Society of Japan.