Shinichi Shirakawa

[English / Japanese]

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

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)

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)

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

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)

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Reviewer (2019, 2020, 2021)
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Reviewer (2020)
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Senior program committee (2020)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Reviewer (2020)
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Reviewer (2020)
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Reviewer (2018, 2019, 2020)
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), Reviewer (2018, 2020)
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Reviewer (2010-2020)
etc.