CV

Education

3.2006   Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering, Osaka University, Japan.
Supervisors: Prof. Aapo Hyvärinen and Prof. Yutaka Kano.

3.2003   Master of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan.

3.2001   Bachelor of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan.

Research positions

4.2009-present   Assistant Professor, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Japan.

8.2008-3.2009   Postdoctoral Researcher, Global COE: Computationism as a Foundation for the Sciences (CompView), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
Mentor: Dr. Hidetoshi Shimodaira.

6.2006-12.2006   Guest Researcher, Neuroinformatics Group, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Advisor: Prof. Aapo Hyvärinen.

4.2006-7.2008   Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD),

• 4.2008-7.2008  
  The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Japan.
  Advisor: Prof. Takashi Washio.
• 4.2006-3.2008  
  The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Japan.
  Advisor: Dr. Mihoko Minami.

4.2004-3.2006   Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC2), Osaka University, Japan.
Supervisor: Prof. Yutaka Kano.

9.2003-3.2005   Researcher, Neuroinformatics Group, Basic Research Unit, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Supervisor: Prof. Aapo Hyvärinen.

Grants

4.2009-3.2012   Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) #21700302

4.2006-3.2009   Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) #18-1610

7.2005   Travel grant from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation

4.2004-3.2006   Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) #16-7933

7.2003   Research grant from Osaka University Kouenkai

Awards

3.2006   Best Student First Author Theory Paper Award.
International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006), Charleston, SC, USA, 2006.

Invited presentations

6.2008   International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS2008), Durham, New Hampshire, USA. (Invited lecture)

9.2007   The 2007 Japanese Joint Statistical Meeting (Session Title: Frontiers in Factor Rotation Techniques), Kobe, Japan.

5.2006   The Japan Statistical Society 75th Anniversary Symposium, Tokyo, Japan.

10.2004   Factor Analysis Centennial Symposium, Osaka, Japan.

Reviewing

Served as a reviewer for:

Twenty-Third Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2009)

Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2009)

Japanese Psychological Research

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Neurocomputing

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

The 7th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation (ICA2007)

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

The Japanese Journal of Behaviormetrics

Psychometrika

清水昌平 しみずしょうへい Shohei Shimizu