Shinichi Shirakawa

Last Update: October 8, 2018

[English / Japanese]

Lecturer
Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences,
Yokohama National University

Email: shirakawa-shinichi-bgynu.ac.jp

Degree / Education

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

Professional Career

  • Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
    (From April 2008 to March 2010)
  • Researcher at Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
    (From April 2010 to March 2012)
  • Research Associate at Department of Integrated Information Technology, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University
    (From April 2012 to March 2013)
  • Assistant Professor at Department of Integrated Information Technology, College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University
    (From April 2013 to March 2015)
  • Assistant Professor at Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba
    (From April 2015 to March 2016)
  • Lecturer at Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University
    (From April 2016 to Present)

Publications

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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)

Talks

  • Genetic Programming Theory and Practice Workshop, Graph Structured Program Evolution: Evolution of Loop Structures (May 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 (July 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) (July 2018)
  • Lectuer at Lviv Data Science Summer School 2018: Hyper-parameter optimization and model selection in machine learning (July 2018)
  • Invited talk at 2018 JPNSEC International Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Designing Deep Neural Network Structures Based on Evolutionary Computation (September 2018)

Awards for Students

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

Research Interest

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

Professional Activities