About Me

I am an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University.

My research focuses on machine learning and its applications to medical and biomedical data. I am particularly interested in developing machine learning methods that can effectively learn from limited, weak, or structured supervision.

Research Interests

• Machine Learning

• Semi-supervised and Weakly Supervised Learning

• Medical Image Analysis

• Biomedical Signal Analysis

• Bioimage Informatics

Publications

For a complete and up-to-date list of my publications, please see my Google Scholar profile

Research Grants

• JST ACT-X, “Integration of Medical Datasets Using AI Connected by Ordinal Relationships,” Oct. 2023–Present

• JSPS KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, “Development of Transitional Time-Series Generative Neural Networks and Their Applications to Medical Data,” Apr. 2023–Present

• JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, “Development of Neural Models for Nonstationary Sequential Data and Their Applications to Medical Data,” Apr. 2021–Mar. 2023

Awards

• Faculty Award, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University, for contributions to research and education

• Encouragement Award, Special Interest Group on Computer Vision and Image Media (CVIM), Information Processing Society of Japan, May 12, 2022

• 2018 Excellent Student Award of the IEEE Fukuoka Section, Feb. 4, 2019

Biography

• Oct. 2024–Present
  Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University

• Apr. 2023–Sep. 2024
  Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University

• Apr. 2022–Mar. 2023
  Research Fellow (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

• Mar. 2022
  Ph.D. in Engineering, Kyushu University

• Apr. 2021–Mar. 2022
  Research Fellow (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

• Apr. 2019–Mar. 2022
  Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, Kyushu University

• Apr. 2017–Mar. 2019
  Master's Program, Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, Kyushu University

• Apr. 2015–Mar. 2017
  Advanced Course in Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Oita National College of Technology

• Mar. 2015
  Graduated from the Department of Information Engineering, Oita National College of Technology

Contact

Shota Harada
Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering
Kyushu University

Room 811, West Building 2
744 Motooka, Nishi-ku
Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan

E-mail: harada[at]ait.kyushu-u.ac.jp