Shota Saito

Bio

Ph.D Student in Computer Science at University College London. I'm supervised by Prof. Mark Herbster and Prof. John Shawe-Taylor.

e-mail: ssaito [at] cs.ucl.ac.uk

Education

Apr. 2019 - present Ph.D Student in Computer Science at University College London. (Supervisor: Prof. Mark Herbster and Prof. John Shawe-Taylor)
Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2015 Masters Student at Department of Mathematical Informatics, Graduate School of Information and Science, The University of Tokyo (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Hideyuki Suzuki)
Aug. 2014 - Jan 2015 Visiting Student at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London (Host: Prof. Danilo P Mandic)
Sep. 2012 - Aug. 2013 Exchange Student at Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich
Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2012 B. Eng at Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Supervisor: Prof. Kenji Yamanishi)

Employment and Work Experience

Jan. 2021 - Apr.2021 Research Intern at Microsoft Research
Sep. 2016 - Apr. 2019 Data Scientist at Amazon Web Services Japan K.K.
Apr. 2015 - Aug. 2016 Software Engineer at DeNA, Co. Ltd.
Apr. 2014 - Feb. 2015 Research Assistant at JST ERATO Kawarabayashi Large Graph Project, National Institute of Informatics
Jan. 2014 - Mar. 2014 Intern at IBM Research - Tokyo (Mentors: Dr. Yohei Ikawa and Ms. Akiko Murakami)
Aug. 2012 - Sep. 2012 Intern at Recruit Inc.

Research Interests

Hypergraph Learning, Graph Mining, Matrix Decomposition

Teaching Experience

Sep. 2019 - Mar. 2023 Teaching Assssitant for Supervised Learning, at University College London (for MSc students, 1hr x 3 classes)
Apr. 2014 - Jul. 2014 Teaching Assistant for Informatics, at the University of Tokyo (for freshmen, 1.5hrs x 2 classes)
Apr. 2012 - Jul. 2012 Teaching Assistant for Informatics, at the University of Tokyo (for freshmen, 1.5hrs x 2 classes)

Honours

Sep. 2018 Scholarship for Study Abroad, Shigeta Educational Foundation: Obtained 4.8M JPY
Jan. 2015 Best Student Paper Award at Special Interest Group of Natural Language and Communication (NLC) [Link (in Japanese)] [Link (advertised at IBM Research - Tokyo Twitter official account in Japanese)]
Sep. 2014 Scholarship for International Academic Activities, Japanese Student Service Organisation: Obtained 500K JPY + Air Ticket to London
Aug. 2012 Scholarship for International Academic Activities, Division of International Affairs, The University of Tokyo: Obtained 1.2M JPY (Acceptance rate: approx. 10%) [Link (in Japanese)]

Publications

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