Research interests

• Independent component analysis for dynamical systems

• Variational Bayesian method for state-space models

• Reinforcement learning

Biography

• 1999.4-2003.3 School of Science and Technology, Meiji University

• 2003.4-2005.3 Master course, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology. (Ishii Lab.)

• 2005.4-2008.10 Doctor course, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University. (Hayakawa Lab.)

• 2007.10-2012.3 Assistant Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan College of Industrial Technology

• 2012.4- Associate Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan College of Industrial Technology

• 2014.4-2014.5 Invited Researcher, Mathematical Neuroinformatics Group, Human Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

• 2014.6-2014.9 Guest Researcher, Radboud University Nijmegen

Publications

Journal Papers

• K. Fujimoto, A. Satoh, and S. Fukunaga.
  System identification for state-space models based on the variational Bayes method (in Japanese).
  Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Vol.48, No.2, pp.102-108, 2012.

• S. Fukunaga and K. Fujimoto.
  Independent component analysis for nonminimum phase systems using H_infinity filters (in Japanese).
  IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.J91-D, No.6, pp.1648-1655, 2008.

• S. Fukunaga and K. Fujimoto.
  Nonlinear independent component analysis using state-space-models (in Japanese).
  Transactions of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, Vol.20, No.10, pp.404-412, 2007.

Refereed Conference Papers

• K. Fujimoto, A. Satoh, and S. Fukunaga.
  System identification based on variational Bayes method and the invariance under coordinate transformations.
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC2011), pp.3882-3888, 2011.

• S. Fukunaga and K. Fujimoto.
  Independent component analysis for nonminimum phase systems using H_infinity filters.
  IFAC World Congress (IFAC2008), pp.13545-13550, 2008.

• S. Fukunaga and K. Fujimoto.
  Independent component analysis for nonminimum phase systems using stable dynamic model inversion.
  European Control Conference (ECC'07), pp.922-926, 2007.

• S. Fukunaga and K. Fujimoto.
  Nonlinear blind deconvolution based on a state-space model.
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2006), pp.6295-6300, 2006.

• S. Fukunaga, Y. Nakamura, K. Aso, and S. Ishii.
  Reinforcement learning for a snake-like robot controlled by a central pattern generator.
  IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM2004), pp.909-914, 2004.

• S. Fukunaga, Y. Nakamura, K. Aso, and S. Ishii.
  Reinforcement learning for a snake-like robot.
  International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA2004), pp.75-78, 2004.