Makoto Yamada

Makoto Yamada received the PhD degree in statistical science from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics), Tokyo, in 2010. He has held positions as a postdoctoral fellow with the Tokyo Institute of Technology from 2010 to 2012, as a research associate with NTT Communication Science Laboratories from 2012 to 2013, as a research scientist with Yahoo Labs from 2013 to 2015, and as an assistant professor with Kyoto University from 2015 to 2017. Currently, he is a team leader at RIKEN AIP and an associate professor at Kyoto University. His research interests include machine learning and its application to biology, natural language processing, and computer vision. He published more than 50 research papers in premium conferences and journals such as NeurIPS, AISTATS, ICML, AAAI, IJCAI, and TPAMI, and won the WSDM 2016 Best Paper Award.

Experience
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Associate Professor
RIKEN AIP, Tokyo Japan, Team Leader
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Assistant Professor
Yahoo Labs, Sunnyvale USA Research Scientist
Awards
IEICE TC-IBISML Research Award 2019
Outstannding SPC award, ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2020)
Outstannding SPC award, ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2019)
Best paper award, ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2016)
Yahoo Labs Excellence Award, 2014
Makoto Yamada
Makoto Yamada
Associate Professor
Ph.D. in Statistical Science, March 2010, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2005, Colorado State University, U.S.A.
B.S. in Computer Science, Mar 2003, University of Aizu, Japan