Resume
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers in top conferences and journals such as NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICLR, etc.; Honorable Mention Open source software Award 2017 at ACM Multimedia; Winner of VQA challenge (Abstract Scenes) at CVPR 2016; Third place in Object Detection (DET) with 'external' data, ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2015 (ILSVRC2015); Authored a textbook on 'image recognition' (in Japanese).
Research Experience
- Team leader at RIKEN AIP; Vice director of Research Center for Medical Bigdata at National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan
Background
- Research interests include visual recognition, machine learning, multimedia learning (vision, natural language, sound, etc.), causality, and intelligent robots. Currently a Professor at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.
Miscellany
- Released WebDNN, a tool that executes DNN on a modern browser without installing any software.