My current research interests are as follows:

• Artificial Intelligence
  • E.g., search, planning, and combination of search with machine learning
• Applications of AI and machine learning to chemistry/material discovery
• Large-scale parallelization of search
• Other real-world applications of AI and machine Learning
  • E.g., smart cities,social/health care, dialogue planning

Education

• Ph.D. in Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada, 2005
• M.Sc. in Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada, 2002
• B.Sc in Information Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 1997

Full-Time Work Experience

• Senior Solution Architect, NVIDIA, Japan, 6/2024-Present
• Senior Research Scientist, IBM Research, Tokyo, Japan, 5/2022-6/2024
• Research Staff Member, IBM Research, Tokyo, Japan, 10/2020-4/2022
• Research Staff Member, IBM Research, Europe, Ireland, 1/2013-9/2020
• Assistant Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 4/2009-12/2012
• Assistant Professor, Future University-Hakodate, Japan, 4/2007-3/2009

Part-Time Work Experience

• Board Director (理事), The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI, 人工知能学会), 7/2024-Present
• Adjunct Professor (客員教授), Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan, 4/2023-9/2023, 4/2024-9/2024
• Visiting Lecturer, Vietnam Japan University (the seventh university under Vietnam National University, Hanoi), Vietnam, 9/2023-10/2023
• PRESTO (さきがけ) Researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 10/2008-3/2012