Work experience

• 2024.4-
  • Associate Professor
  • Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University
• 2019.12 - 2024.3
  • Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
  • Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University
• 2020.10 - 2022.3
  • Visiting Researcher
  • Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), Riken
• 2017.4 - 2019.11
  • Research Assistant Professor
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology
• 2016.4 - 2017.3
  • Postdoctoral researcher
  • Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS/JAXA)
• 2014.4 - 2016.3
  • Research Fellow
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science DC2

Education

• 2016.3 Ph.D. degree in Science from The University of Tokyo
  • Advisor: Prof. Alex Fukunaga
  • Thesis: Studies of Adaptive Differential Evolution for Function Optimization Problems (in Japanese)
• 2013.3 M.S. degree in engineering from Sophia University
• 2011.3 B.S. degree in engineering from Sophia University

Grants

• 2021.4 - 2024.3 Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists from JSPS
  • Title: Automatic Configuration of Preference-based Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization Algorithms
  • 4,550,000 JPY (estimated)
• 2019.12 - 2024.3 Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers from MEXT
  • Title: Towards a more general and practical evolutionary algorithm
  • 21,000,000 JPY (estimated)
• 2017.4 - 2020.3 Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists B from JSPS
  • I could not accept this grant because I was not in Japan for 2017-2020
  • Title: Efficient Adaptive Differential Evolution for Multi-objective Optimization
  • 3,800,000 JPY
• 2014.4 - 2016.3: Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow from JSPS
  • Title: Development of Novel, Efficient Parameter Setting Strategies for Evolutionary Algorithms and Its Application
  • 2,200,000 JPY

Awards

• 2023: Nomination for the best paper at the EMO track in ACM GECCO2023
• 2018: Nomination for the best paper at PPSN2018
• 2017: Nomination for the best paper at the ENUM track in ACM GECCO2017
• 2014: Winner of the IEEE CEC2014 Competition on Real-Parameter Single Objective Optimization
• 2013: IEEE CIS Outstanding Student-Paper Travel Grant Award

Professional Activities/Service

• Program Committee Member
  • GECCO: 2016-2024
  • CEC: 2014, 2016-2024
• Reviewer
  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
  • Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
  • Applied Soft Computing
  • etc.