Shin'ya NAKANO
Assistant Professor, Spatial and Time Series Group, Department of Statistical Modeling;
Data Assimilation Research Group, Prediction and Knowledge Discovery Research Center
E-mail: shiny
Personal
Homepage:
http://daweb.ism.ac.jp/~shiny/index-e.html
Date of Birth: August, 1976
Education: Bachelor of Science, College of Science, Kyoto Univ., 1999
Master of Science, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto Univ., 2001
Doctor of Science, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto Univ., 2004
Degree: Doctor of Science, Kyoto Univ., 2004, Title of Doctoral Thesis: Variations of large-scale field-aligned currents and their effects on mid-latitude geomagnetic disturbances.
Employment: 2004-2005 Researcher, Kyoto University
2005-2009 Researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency
2009 Project Researcher, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
2009- Assistant Professor, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Research
Fields:
Data Assimilation, Numerical inversion, Geomagnetism
Research
Themes:
Application of data assimilation techniques (especially to space science), Filtering algorithm for high-dimensional nonlinear problems, Analysis of geomagnetic time-series data


Selected Papers
(1) S. Nakano and T. Higuchi (2009): Estimation of a long-term variation of a magnetic- storm index using the merging particle filter, IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., v. E92-D, pp. 1382-1387.
(2) S. Nakano, G. Ueno, S. Ohtani, and T. Higuchi (2009): Impact of the solar-wind dynamic pressure on the Region-2 field-aligned currents, J. Geophys. Res., v. 114, A02221, doi:10.1029/2008JA013674.
(3) S. Nakano, G. Ueno, K. Nakamura, and T. Higuchi (2008): The merging particle filter and its characteristics, Proceedings of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, v. 56, pp. 225-234 (in Japanese).
(4) S. Nakano, G. Ueno, Y. Ebihara, M.-C. Fok, S. Ohtani, P. C. Brandt, D. G. Mitchell, K. Keika, and T. Higuchi: (2008): A method for estimating the ring current structure and the electric potential distribution using ENA data assimilation, J. Geophys. Res., v. 113, A05208, doi:10.1029/2006JA011853.
(5) S. Nakano, G. Ueno, and T. Higuchi (2007): Merging particle filter for sequential data assimilation, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., v. 14, pp. 395-408.
(6) S. Nakano and T. Iyemori (2005): Storm-time field-aligned currents on the nightside inferred from ground-based magnetic data at midlatitudes: Relationships with the interplanetary magnetic field and substorms, J. Geophys. Res., v. 110, A07216, doi:10.1029/2004JA010737.

Membership of Academic Societies
Japan Statistical Society, Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Science, Japan Geoscience Union, American Geophysical Union

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