Biography

Education:
• B.S. degree in mathematics in 1989 from Kyoto University.
• Ph.D degree in mathematics in 1996 from Kyoto University.

Research experience:
• 1989.4-1997.12 Research and Development department in Ricoh Co., Ltd. (Japan) Researcher.
• 1998.1-2000.1 Lab for Information Synthesis, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN (Japan) Research scientist.
• 2000.2- Present Institute of Statistical Mathematics, (Japan) Associate professor.
• 2002.5-2003.4 Visiting scholar at Michael I. Jordan's Lab, University of California, Berkeley
.
• 2006.10-2007.9 Visiting researcher at Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Dept. Schoelkopf (Humboldt reseahrch fellew).
• Professor, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (10/2009-present)
• Director, Research Center for Statistical Machine Learning, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (01/2012-present)
• Visiting researcher, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project. (09/2017-03/2023)
• Technical Advisor, Preferred Networks Inc. (11/2018-present)
• Visiting Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (04/2023-Present)

Back to top page.