Makoto Yamada, Ph.D.

Makoto Yamada, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Kyoto University Transitional Assosiate Professor, Machine Learning and Data Science Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Team Leader (PI, equivalent to full professor), High-dimensional Statistical Modeling Team, RIKEN AIP Visiting Associate Professor, Research Center for Statistical Machine Learning, Institute of Statistical Mathematics Curriculum vitae (Oct. 1. 2021), Google Scholar

Education

Ph.D., Statistical Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Mar 2010
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Colorado State University, May 2005
B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Aizu, Mar 2003

Work Experience

Transitional Assosiate Professor, Machine Learning and Data Science Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (2022 - present)
Associate Professor, Kyoto University (2018 - present)
Team Leader (PI, equivalent to full professor), RIKEN AIP (2020-)
Unit Leader (PI, equivalent to associate professor), RIKEN AIP (2017 - 2020)
Visiting Associate Professor, Research Center for Statistical Machine Learning, Institute of Statistical Mathematics (2017 - present)
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University (2017 - present)
Assistant Professor, Kyoto University, Japan (Oct. 2015 - 2017)
Research Scientist, Yahoo Labs (Jul. 2013- Oct. 2015)
Research Associate, NTT Communication Science Laboratories (Jul. 2012 - Jun. 2013)
Visitor, Disney Research Pittsburgh (Jan. 2012 - Jun. 2012)
Visitor, Carnegie Mellon University (Jan. 2012 - Jun. 2012)
Postdoctoral researcher, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Apr. 2010 - Jun. 2012)
Research engineer,Yamaha Corporation (Jul. 2007 - Mar. 2010)
System engineer, Hitachi Corporation (Jul. 2005 - Jun. 2007)

Awards

WSDM Outstanding SPC award, 2020
WSDM Outstanding SPC award, 2019
WSDM best paper award, 2016
Yahoo Labs Excellence Award, 2014
Interactive Presentation Award, Meeting on Image Recognition and Undestanding (MIRU2013), 2013
IBISML Award Finalist, Jun. 2012
Honorable Mention, IBIS2010
Student Travel Grant, ICASSP 2009

Professional Affiliations and Activities

Organizer, WSDM 2023 (WSDMcup co-chair), ICML 2022 (Communication chair), WSDM 2018 (Publicity chair), AISTATS 2019 (Workflow chair)
Senior PC member (Area Chair), WWW 2020, WSDM 2018-2020,2022, ICML 2019-2021, NeurIPS 2020,2021, AAAI 2020, IJCAI 2018, ACML 2019,2020, AIRS 2016
PC member, WSDM 2017, ICML 2017,2018, AISTATS 2014-2018, IJCAI 2011-2015,2017, AAAI 2017, ACML 2010-2015,2017, WWW 2015-2017, SIGIR 2016-2017, ECML 2016-2017, CIKM 2016