Mahito Sugiyama

About

Affiliation

Principles of Informatics Research Division,
National Institute of Informatics

Contact

National Institute of Informatics,
2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan
E-mail: mahito (at) nii.ac.jp

Biosketch

2017.4—now: Associate Professor, Principles of Informatics Research Division, National Institute of Informatics
2018.10—now: JST PRESTO Researcher (concurrent)
2014.10—2018.3: JST PRESTO Researcher (concurrent)
2014.4—2017.3: Assistant Professor, Department of Reasoning for Intelligence, ISIR, Osaka University
2012.7—2014.3: Research Scientist, Machine Learning and Computational Biology Research Group,
Max Planck Institutes Tübingen
(2013.8—2014.3 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Researcher)
2012.4—2012.6: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Reasoning for Intelligence, ISIR, Osaka University
2008.4—2012.3: Ph.D. Student, Group of Intelligence Information Processing Principles,
Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
(2010.4—2012.3 JSPS Research Fellow DC2)
2006.4—2008.3: Graduate Student, Group of Biological Information,
Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
2002.4—2006.3: Undergraduate Student, Undergraduate School of Informatics and Mathematical Science,
Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
1999.4—2002.3: Hyogo High School

Guest Professor

2016.9—2016.10: Guest Professor, Machine Learning & Computational Biology Lab, ETH Zürich
2014.10—2014.11: Guest Professor, Machine Learning & Computational Biology Lab, ETH Zürich

Academic degree

Doctor of Informatics, Kyoto University, 2012
Thesis: Studies on Computational Learning via Discretization

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Committee: Prof. Akihiro Yamamoto (chair), Prof. Tatsuya Akutsu, Prof. Toshiyuki Tanaka

Awards and Honors

2018: JSAI Incentive Award
Constained Clustering via Nearest Neighbor Searchand Formal Concept Analysis,
Yuka Yoneda, Mahito Sugiyama, Takashi Washio
2017: JSAI Incentive Award
Tensor Decomposition via Legendre Transformation,
Mahito Sugiyama, Hiroyuki Nakahara, Koji Tsuda
2015: IEICE TC-IBISML Research Award Finalist
Halting in Random Walk Kernels,
Mahito Sugiyama and Karsten Borgwardt
2015: Osaka University Presidential Award for Encouragement
2013.8—2014.3: Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers (24 months, declined)
2012.7—2013.7: Postdoctoral fellowship of the Max Planck Society (24 months, declined)
2010.4—2012.3: Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC2)
2009: JSAI Incentive Award
An Alternative to Statistical Hypothesis Testing Based on Computational Learning Theory,
Mahito Sugiyama and Akihiro Yamamoto

Research Grants

Strategic Basic Research Programs (by JST)

PRESTO "Fundamental Information Technologies toward Innovative Social System Design" (Oct. 2018—Mar. 2022）
PRESTO "Advanced Core Technologies for Big Data Integration" (Oct. 2014—Mar. 2018)

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI; by JSPS)

Scientific Research (B) (Co-Investigator), Apr. 2016—Mar. 2020
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (Principal Investigator), Apr. 2016—Mar. 2019
Research Activity Start-up (Principal Investigator), Oct. 2014—Mar. 2016
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (Principal Investigator), Apr. 2010—Mar. 2012

Others

Collaborative research with National Institute of Informatics, Apr. 2016—Mar. 2017

Teaching Experience

Lecturer

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI, National Institute of Informatics), Data Mining (2017)
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI, National Institute of Informatics), Introduction to Big Data Science (in conjunction with other staffs) (2017)
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI, National Institute of Informatics), Introduction to Intelligent Systems ScienceII (in conjunction with other staffs) (2017)
Osaka University, Data Mining Theory (in conjunction with other staffs) (2014—2016)
Osaka University, Basic Seminars (in conjunction with other staffs) (2016)
Osaka University, International Exchange Subjects (in conjunction with other staffs) (2015)

Teaching Assistant

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Data Mining in Bioinformatics (Winter 2013/14)
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Seminar Bioinformatics I (Summer 2013)
Kyoto University, Practice of Biological Information (2007—2011)
Kyoto University, Hardware and Software Laboratory Project 2 (2008—2010)

Memberships & Professional Activities

Memberships

JSAI (The Japanease Society for Artificial Intelligence)
SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)

Professional Activities

2019

Guest editorial board, The 29th European Conference on Machine Learning and 22nd Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2019), Sep., 2019
Program Committee, The 29th European Conference on Machine Learning and 22nd Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2019), Sep., 2019
Program Committee, The 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-19), Aug., 2019
Program Committee, The 25th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2019), Aug., 2019
Program Committee, The 7th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2019), May, 2019
Program Committee, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM19), May, 2019
Program Committee, The 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2019), Apr., 2019
Program Committee, The 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2019), Apr., 2019
Program Committee, The 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19), Jan.-Feb., 2019

2018

Program Committee, The 28th European Conference on Machine Learning and 21st Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2018), Sep., 2018
Program Committee, The 24th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2018), Aug., 2018
Program Committee, The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2018), Jul., 2018
Program Committee, The 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2018), Jul., 2018
Program Committee, The 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2018), Jun., 2018
Program Committee, The 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2018), Apr.-May, 2018
Program Committee, The 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2018), Apr., 2018
Program Committee, The 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), Feb., 2018

2017

Program Committee, The 20th Information-Based Induction Sciences Workshop (IBIS 2017), Nov., 2017
Program Committee, The 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017), Nov., 2017
Program Committee, IEEE DSAA2017 Special Session on Advanced Informatic Measurement using Statistics, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition (AimSMLPR), Oct., 2017
Program Committee, The 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA 2017), Oct., 2017
Program Committee, The 20th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2017), Oct., 2017
Program Committee, The 27th European Conference on Machine Learning and 20th Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2017), Sep., 2017
Program Committee, The 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017), Aug., 2017
Program Committee, The 23rd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2017), Aug., 2017
Program Committee, The 34th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2017), Aug., 2017
Program Committee, The 21st Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2017), May, 2017
Program Committee, The 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2017), Apr., 2017
Program Committee, The 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17), Feb., 2017

2016

Program Committee, The 8th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2016), Nov., 2016
Program Committee, The 26th European Conference on Machine Learning and 19th Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2016), Sep., 2016
Program Committee, The 22th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2016), Aug., 2016
Program Committee, The 30th Annual Conference of the Japan Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2016), Jun., 2016
Program Committee, The 20th Pacific Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (PAKDD 2016), Apr., 2016

2015

Program Committee, The 7th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2015), Nov., 2015
Program Committee, The 25th European Conference on Machine Learning and 18th Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2015), Sep., 2015
Program Committee, The 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015), Jul., 2015
Program Committee, The 2nd Workshop on Features and Structures (FEAST 2015), Jul., 2015
Program Committee, The 29th Annual Conference of the Japan Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2015), May, Jun., 2015

2014

Program Committee, The 6th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2014), Nov., 2014
Program Committee, The 24th European Conference on Machine Learning and 17th Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2014), Sep., 2014

2013

Program Committee, The 5th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2013), Nov., 2013
Program Committee, The 23th European Conference on Machine Learning and 16th Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2013), Sep., 2013
Program Committee, The 30th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2013), Jun., 2013

Reviews

Journals
- Bioinformatics
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
- The Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
- Machine Learning
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
- Knowledge and Information Systems
- Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
- IPSJ Transactions on Databases (TOD)
- IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems
- DBSJ Japanese Journal
Conferences
- The 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2018), Dec., 2018
- The 31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017), Dec., 2017
- The 30th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2016), Dec., 2016
- The 29th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2015), Dec., 2015
- The 28th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2014), Dec., 2014
- The 31th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2014), Jun., 2014
- The 27th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2013), Dec., 2013
- The 21st International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2010), Oct., 2010