Genta UENO Associate Professor, Spatial and Time Series Modeling Group, Department of Statistical Modeling; Data Assimilation Research Group, Prediction and Knowledge Research Center

E-mail: gen Date of Birth: July, 1973 Education: Bachelor of Science, Kyoto Univ., 1996. Master of Science, Dept. of Geophysics, Kyoto Univ., 1998. Doctor of Science, Dept. of Geophysics, Kyoto Univ., 2001. Degree: Ph.D. of Science, Kyoto Univ., 2001, Title of Ph.D Thesis: Study of magnetotail dynamics including the effects of normal field and nonequilibrium plasma. Employment: 2001-2003: Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 2003-2005: Assistant Professor, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics 2005-2009: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistical Modeling; Prediction and Knowledge Research Center, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics 2009-present: Associate Professor, Department of Statistical Modeling; Prediction and Knowledge Research Center, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics 2009-present: Researcher, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency Research Fields: Data Assimilation, Time Series Analysis, Magnetospheric Dynamics Research Themes: Methodology of data assimilation with nonlinear filtering (ensemble Kalman filter, particle filter), Introduction of data assimilation to solar-terrestrial science, Statistical analysis of plasma velocity distribution,

Selected Papers
(1) Ueno, G. and T. Tsuchiya (2009): Covariance regularization in inverse space, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 135, 1133-1156.
(2) Ueno, G., T. Higuchi, S. Ohtani, and P. T. Newell (2007): Particle precipitation characteristics in the dayside four-sheet field-aligned current structure, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, A06242, doi:10.1029/2006JA012036.
(3) Ueno, G., T. Higuchi, T. Kagimoto, and N. Hirose (2007): Application of the ensemble Kalman filter and smoother to a coupled atmosphere-ocean model, SOLA, 3, 5-8.
(4) Ueno, G., T. Higuchi, T. Kagimoto, and N. Hirose (2006): Prediction of ocean state by data assimilation with theensemble Kalman filter, Joint 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 7th International Symposium on advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS & ISIS 2006), 1884-1889.
(5) Ueno, G., T. Higuchi, T. Kagimoto, and N. Hirose (2006): Application of the ensemble Kalman filter to atmosphere-ocean coupled model, Nonlinear Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (NSSPW): Classical, Unscented and Particle Filtering Methods, 2006 IEEE .
(6) Ueno, G., S. Ohtani, T. Mukai, Y. Saito, and H. Hayakawa (2003): Hall current system around the magnetic neutral line in the magnetotail : Statistical study, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 , 1347, doi:10.1029/2002JA009733.
(7) Ueno, G., S. Ohtani, Y. Saito, and T. Mukai (2002): Field-aligned currents in the outermost plasma sheet boundary layer with Geotail observation, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107 , 1399, doi:10.1029/2002JA009367.
(8) Ueno, G., N. Nakamura, T. Higuchi, T. Tsuchiya, S. Machida, and T. Araki (2002): Application of multivariate Maxwellian mixture model to plasma velocity distribution, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2281, 372-383.
(9) Ueno, G., N. Nakamura, and T. Higuchi (2001): Separation of photoelectrons via multivariate Maxwellian mixture model, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2226 , 470-475.
(10) Ueno, G., N. Nakamura, T. Higuchi, T. Tsuchiya, S. Machida, T. Araki, Y. Saito, and T. Mukai (2001): Application of multivariate Maxwellian mixture model to plasma velocity distribution function, Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 25655-25672.
(11) Ueno, G. (2001): Effects of magnetic curvature on the lower-hybrid-drift instability, Physics of Plasmas, 8 , 1159-1170.
(12) Ueno, G., N. Nakamura, T. Higuchi, T. Tsuchiya, S. Machida, and T. Araki (2000): Application of multivariate Maxwellian mixture model to plasma velocity distribution function, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1967, 197-211.
(13) Ueno, G., S. Machida, T. Mukai, Y. Saito, K. Tsuruda, H. Hayakawa, and S. Kokubun (2000): Statistical analysis of fast dawnward and duskward ion flows in the near and mid-distant magnetotail observed by Geotail, Advances in Space Research, 26 , 435-438.
(14) Ueno, G., S. Machida, N. Nakamura, T. Higuchi, and T. Araki (1999): Detection of the structure of particle velocity distribution by finite mixture distribution model, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1721, 366-368.
(15) Ueno, G., S. Machida, T. Mukai, Y. Saito, and A. Nishida (1999): Distribution of X-type magnetic neutral lines in the magnetotail with Geotail observations, Geophysical Research Letters, 26 , 3341-3344.

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

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