Masahiro Nomura
nomura [at] comp.isct.ac.jp
Contact
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Institute of Science Tokyo
Address:
4259 Nagatsutacho, Midori Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
E-mail: Open to collaborations on research and applied optimization problems!
nomura [at] comp.isct.ac.jp
Research Interest
Black-Box Optimization (CMA-ES)
Machine Learning
Selected Publications (Full list available on Google Scholar)
CMA-ES:
Masahiro Nomura, Youhei Akimoto, Isao Ono: CMA-ES with Learning Rate Adaptation: Can CMA-ES with Default Population Size Solve Multimodal and Noisy Problems?, GECCO 2023. (Best Paper Nomination at ENUM Track)
(Extended Journal Version) Masahiro Nomura, Youhei Akimoto, Isao Ono: CMA-ES with Learning Rate Adaptation, ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, 2025.
Ryoki Hamano, Masahiro Nomura, Shota Saito, Kento Uchida, Shinichi Shirakawa: CatCMA with Margin: Stochastic Optimization for Continuous, Integer, and Categorical Variables, GECCO 2025. (Best Paper Nomination at ENUM Track)
Hyperparameter Optimization:
Masahiro Nomura*, Yuta Saito*: Efficient Hyperparameter Optimization under Multi-Source Covariate Shift, CIKM 2021.
Masahiro Nomura*, Shuhei Watanabe*, Youhei Akimoto, Yoshihiko Ozaki, Masaki Onishi : Warm Starting CMA-ES for Hyperparameter Optimization, AAAI 2021.
Bayesian Optimization:
Shion Takeno, Masahiro Nomura, Masayuki Karasuyama: Towards Practical Preferential Bayesian Optimization with Skew Gaussian Processes, ICML 2023.
Yoshihiko Ozaki, Yuki Tanigaki, Shuhei Watanabe, Masahiro Nomura, Masaki Onishi: Multiobjective Tree-Structured Parzen Estimator, JAIR 2022.
Biography
Masahiro Nomura received his B.S. degree in Engineering in 2015 from the Nagoya Institute of Technology, his M.S degree in Computational Intelligence and Systems Science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2017, his Ph.D. degree in Department of Computer Science from the Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan, in 2025. Since 2025, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan. Some of his recent work has been published at prominent conferences, including AAAI, CIKM, GECCO, ICML, IJCAI, and WebConf. His research has been nominated for the Best Paper Award in the ENUM Track at GECCO 2022, 2023, and 2025.
Education
Apr 2011 - Mar 2015: Nagoya Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Engineering
Apr 2015 - Mar 2017: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Master of Engineering
Apr 2019 - Mar 2025: Institute of Science Tokyo (former: Tokyo Institute of Technology), Doctor of Engineering
Work
Apr 2017 - May 2018: Engineer, CyberAgent
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020: Specially Appointed Researcher, AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
Jun 2018 - Mar 2025: Research Scientist, CyberAgent
Apr 2025 - Present: Assistant Professor, Institute of Science Tokyo
Academic Service
Conference Program Committee
GECCO (2025, 2026), PPSN (2026), AAAI (2023, 2024, 2025, 2026), CVPR (2024, 2025), ICCV (2025), CEC (2022, 2023), ...
Journal Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, Applied Soft Computing, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
Links
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=dml10nwAAAAJ&hl=en