[English / Japanese]
Associate Professor
Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences,
Yokohama National University
Email: shirakawa-shinichi-bg 
ynu.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 March 2021) - Visiting Researcher at RIKEN AIP-FUJITSU Collaboration Center, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN
(From October 2020 to Present) - Associate Professor at Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University
(From April 2021 to Present)
Publications
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)
Awards for Students
- IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Japan Chapter Young Researcher Award (Kazuki Ouchi) (December 2014)
Talks
- Presentation at 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 (29 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) (8 July 2018)
- Lecture at Lviv Data Science Summer School 2018: Hyper-parameter optimization and model selection in machine learning (26-27 July 2018)
- Public talk at Lviv Data Science Summer School 2018, Recent Trend of Neural Network Architecture Search (28 July 2018)
- Invited talk at 2018 JPNSEC International Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Designing Deep Neural Network Structures Based on Evolutionary Computation (1 September 2018)
- Tutorial at 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2019): Evolutionary Machine Learning (organized with Masaya Nakata and Will Browne) (10 June 2019)
- Tutorial at IEEE World Conference on Computational Intelligence 2020 (WCCI 2020): Evolutionary Machine Learning (organized with Masaya Nakata and Will Browne) (19 July 2020)
Research Interest
- Evolutionary Computation
- Machine Learning / Pattern Recognition / Data Mining
- Image Processing / Image Recognition / Computer Vision
Professional Activities
[Editor]
- New Generation Computing (Editorial Board)
[Organizing Committee]
- Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2018, Electronic Media Chair
[Conference Program Committee & Reviewer]
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Reviewer (2019-2021)
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Reviewer (2020), Senior Program Committee (2021)
- European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Senior Program Committee (2020)
- Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Reviewer (2020)
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Reviewer (2020, 2021)
- European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), Journal Track Reviewer (2021)
- Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Reviewer (2018-2021)
- Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), Reviewer (2018, 2020)
- IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Reviewer (2010-2021)
- etc.
[Reviewer for Journals]
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
- IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
- Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
- Neural Computing and Applications
- etc.