Curriculum vitae

Employment

• Oct. 2023 - present, Senior Researcher, Advanced Technology Lab., Recruit Co., Ltd.

• Oct. 2020 - Sep. 2023, Research Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University.

• Jan. 2008 – Sep. 2020, Associate Professor, Department of Information and Physical Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University.

• Apr. 2007 – Dec. 2007, Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering, Faculty of Electro-Communications, The University of Electro-Communications.

• May 2005 – Mar. 2007, Research Associate, Department of Systems Engineering, Faculty of Electro-Communications, The University of Electro-Communications.

• Apr. 2003 – Apr. 2005, Research Associate, Department of Advanced Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Toyota Technological Institute.

• Apr. 2023 - present, Technical Advisor (concurrent), AtCoder Inc.

• Dec. 2022 - present, Technical Advisor (concurrent), Grid Inc.

• Dec. 2022 - Sep. 2023, Technical Advisor (concurrent), Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.

• Sep. 2022 - present, Technical Advisor (concurrent), AR Advanced Technology Inc.

• Jan. 2022 - present, Technical Advisor (concurrent), Novath Inc.

• Jan. 2022 - Sep. 2023, Technical Advisor (concurrent), Amoeba Energy Co., Ltd.

• Feb. 2021- Jan. 2022, Technical Advisor (concurrent), Suzuyo Inc.

• Oct. 2019 – present, Technical Advisor (concurrent), ExaWizards Inc.

• Apr. 2018 – present, Technical Advisor (concurrent), MOL Information Systems, Ltd.

• Apr. 2017 – Sep. 2023, Visiting Researcher (concurrent), RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP).

• Jan. 2016 – Mar. 2018, Technical Advisor (concurrent), ARI Advanced Technology.

• Aug. 2012 – Jul. 2013, Technical Advisor (concurrent), MicroAd, Inc.

• Oct. 2010 – Mar. 2014, Researcher (concurrent), Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

•  May 2006 – Mar. 2007, Technical Advisor (concurrent), Kozo Keikaku Engineering, Inc.

Education

• Mar. 2003, Doctor of Informatics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University.

• Mar. 1998, Master of Engineering, Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University.

• Mar. 1996, Skipped a grade to enter graduate school, Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Faculty of Engineering Science, Osaka University.

Awards

• 2018, Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, European Journal of Operational Research.

• 2012, 2014, 2015, Presidential award for encouragement, Osaka University.

• 2009, Encouragement award, the Operations Research Society of Japan.

• 2003, The best paper presented in the session: Mathematical, Optimization, Simulation and Modeling, the 7th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI2003).

Funding

• 2019/4-2022/3, Solving large-scale service assignment problems via machine learning techniques, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

• 2018/4-2021/3, Route recommendation algorithms to mitigate traffic congestion, Grant-in-Aid for challenging Exploratory Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

• 2015/4-2018/3, Large-scale multi-target tracking to identify massive people flow in urban area, Grant-in-Aid for challenging Exploratory Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

• 2014/4-2018/3, Automatic configuration of general purpose heuristic algorithms based on machine learning, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

• 2010/9-2014/3, Automatic construction of algorithms for combinatorial optimization by analyzing problem structure, Japan Science and Technology Agency.

• 2010/4-2013/3, Automatic configuration of metaheuristics for large scale integer programs, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

• 2006/4-2009/3, Practical metaheuristic algorithms for packing and cutting problems, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Academic membership

• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

• Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS)

• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

• Operations Research Society of Japan (ORSJ)

• Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)

• Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)

International academic activities

• Program committee of International Symposium on Scheduling 2021 (ISS2021), online, 2021/6/25-27.

• Program committee of the 34th AAAI Conference of Artificial Intelligence 2020 (AAAI-20), Hilton New York Midtown, US, 2020/2/7-12.

• Senior program committee of the 11th Asian Conference of Machine Learning 2019 (ACML2019), Nagoya, Japan, 2019/11/17-19.

• International program committee of International Symposium on Scheduling 2019 (ISS2019),  Kunibiki Messe, Matue, Japan, 2019/7/5-7.

• Program committee of 33rd AAAI Conference of Artificial Intelligence 2019 (AAAI-19), Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, US, 2019/1/27-2/1.

• Senior program committee of the 10th Asian Conference of Machine Learning 2018 (ACML2018), Beijing Jiaotong University, China, 2018/11/14-16.

• Local organizing committee of International Symposium on Scheduling 2017 (ISS2017), Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan, 2017/6/23-25.

• Program committee of 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-16), New York City, 2016/7/9-15.

• 2008-2011, Associate Editor, the Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan.

• International Program committee of International Symposium on Scheduling 2015 (ISS2015), Osaka University Nakanoshima Center, Osaka, Japan, 2015/7/4-6.

• International program committee of International Symposium on Scheduling 2011 (ISS2011), Osaka University Nakanoshima Center, Osaka, Japan, 2011/7/2-4.

• International program committee of International Symposium on Scheduling 2009 (ISS2009), Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, 2009/7/4-6.

• Program committee of the 10th Japan-Korea Joint Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WAAC2007), Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea, 2007/8/9-10.

• Local organizing committee of 4th ESICUP Meeting, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2007/3/26-27.

• Local organizing committee of International Symposium on Scheduling 2006 (ISS2006), Arcadia Ichigaya, Tokyo, Japan, 2006/7/18-20.

• Program committee of the 9th Japan-Korea Joint Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WAAC2006), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, 2006/7/3-5.