Shinichi Shirakawa

Last Update: September 25, 2023

[English / Japanese]

Associate Professor at Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University

Email: shirakawa-shinichi-bg ynu.ac.jp

Education / Degree

  • Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University (April 2001 - March 2005)
    • Bachelor of Engineering (March 2005)
  • Master Course, Department of Information Media and Environment Sciences, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University (April 2005 - March 2007)
    • Master of Engineering (March 2007)
  • Doctor Course, Department of Information Media and Environment Sciences, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University (April 2007 - March 2009)
    • Ph.D. degree in Engineering (March 2009)

Professional Career

  • Research Fellow (DC2) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (April 2008 - March 2009)
  • Research Fellow (PD) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (April 2009 - March 2010)
  • Researcher at Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. (April 2010 - March 2012)
  • Research Associate at Department of Integrated Information Technology, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University (April 2012 - March 2013)
  • Assistant Professor at Department of Integrated Information Technology, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University (April 2013 - March 2015)
  • Assistant Professor at Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba (April 2015 - March 2016)
  • Lecturer at Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University (April 2016 - March 2021)
  • Visiting Researcher at RIKEN AIP-FUJITSU Collaboration Center, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN (October 2020 - March 2022)
  • Associate Professor at Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University (April 2021 - Present)
  • Visiting Associate Professor at Yokohama City University (April 2023 - Present)

Publications

Please see here.

Awards

  • EvoIASP 2009 Best Paper Nomination (April 2009)
  • Winner in Yellow Submarine Challenge of EvoSTOC 2009 Competition (April 2009)
  • IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Japan Chapter Young Researcher Award (December 2009)
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2017 Best Paper Award of EML Track (July 2017) [Link]
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2022 Best Paper Nomination of ENUM Track (July 2022) [Link]

Awards for Students

  • IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Japan Chapter Young Researcher Award (Kazuki Ouchi) (December 2014)
  • IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Japan Chapter Young Researcher Award (Ryoki Hamano)（December 2021）

Talks, Tutorials, etc.

  • Presentation at Genetic Programming Theory and Practice Workshop (GPTP 2009): Graph Structured Program Evolution: Evolution of Loop Structures (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, May 14-16, 2009)
  • Invited talk at Asia Pacific Society for Computing and Information Technology (APSCIT) 2017 Annual Meeting: Evolutionary Computation Approaches to Designing Deep Neural Network Architectures (Hokkaido, Japan, July 29, 2017)
  • Tutorial at IEEE World Conference on Computational Intelligence 2018 (WCCI 2018): Machine Learning on Evolutionary Computation (organized with Masaya Nakata, Frederic Chazal, and Naoki Hamada) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 8, 2018)
  • Lecture at Lviv Data Science Summer School 2018: Hyper-parameter optimization and model selection in machine learning (Lviv, Ukraine, July 26-27, 2018)
  • Public talk at Lviv Data Science Summer School 2018: Recent Trend of Neural Network Architecture Search (Lviv, Ukraine, July 28, 2018)
  • Invited talk at 2018 JPNSEC International Workshop on Evolutionary Computation: Designing Deep Neural Network Structures Based on Evolutionary Computation (Shenzhen, China, September 1, 2018)
  • Tutorial at 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2019): Evolutionary Machine Learning (organized with Masaya Nakata and Will Browne) (Wellington, New Zealand, June 10, 2019)
  • Tutorial at IEEE World Conference on Computational Intelligence 2020 (WCCI 2020): Evolutionary Machine Learning (organized with Masaya Nakata and Will Browne) (Online, July 19, 2020)
  • Tutorial at 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2021): Evolutionary Machine Learning (organized with Masaya Nakata and Will Browne) (Online, June 28, 2021)

Professional Activities

[Editor]

[Organizing Committee]

[Conference Program Committee & Reviewer]

  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Reviewer (2019-2023)
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Reviewer (2020, 2022-2023), Senior Program Committee (2021)
  • European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Senior Program Committee (2020), Meta Reviewer (2023)
  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Reviewer (2020-2023), Top Reviewer (2022)
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Reviewer (2020-2023), Outstanding Reviewer (Top 10%) (2022)
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Reviewer (2022-2023)
  • European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), Journal Track Reviewer (2021-2023)
  • AutoML Conference, Reviewer (2022)
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Reviewer (2018-2023)
  • Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), Reviewer (2018, 2020, 2022)
  • IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Reviewer (2010-2023)
  • etc.

[Reviewer for Journals]

Research Interest

  • Evolutionary Computation
  • Machine Learning / Deep Learning / Pattern Recognition / Data Mining
  • Image Processing / Image Recognition / Computer Vision