CEO and Founder @ MiraiX
Associate Professor @ Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering,
Kyushu University
Visiting Researcher @ Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, School of Engineering,
The University of Tokyo

Education

Sept 2016, Kyushu University (Japan) – PhD
Mar 2014, Kyushu University (Japan) – M. Eng.
Aug 2007 ~ July 2008, Ulm University (Germany) –
  Bilateral Exchange Program
Dec 2009, University of São Paulo (Brazil) –
  B. Eng. degree in Computer Engineering

Work Experiences

June 2022, MiraiX - CEO and Founder
Sept 2020, The University of Tokyo (Japan) - Visiting Researcher (concurrent position)
Jan 2020, Kyushu University (Japan) - Associate Professor [Tenure Track] (concurrent position)
Oct 2016 - Dec 2019, Kyushu University (Japan) - Assistant Professor
2014 Fukuoka International Exchange Foundation - Portuguese Teacher (Japan) (3 years)
2013 Japanese Cram School - English Teacher (Japan) (1 year)
2010 Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Brazil) - Research Assistant (10 months)
2009 University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) - Undergraduate Researcher (1 year)
2008 Nokia (Germany) - Software Engineer (intern) (7 months)
2005 University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) - Linux Laboratory Administrator (2 years)
2004 University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) - Undergraduate Researcher (1 year)

Languages

Japanese - Fluent (JLPT N2)
Portuguese - Native
English - Fluent (TOEIC: 970)
German - Advanced

Awards and Scholarships

2022 - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award 2022
2017 - 2016 Excellent Student Award IEEE - The IEEE Fukuoka Section
2011~2016 - MEXT (The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) Scholarship, Japan (5 years)
2008 - 2nd Place with the GEAR Group in the 5th Latin American Robotics Competition
2007 - Baden-Württemberg Scholarship, Germany (5 months)
2001 - 4th Place in the São Paulo Chemistry Olympiad Awards, Brazil
2000~2002 - Scholarship at Koelle High School, Brazil (3 years)

Research Field

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Optimization, Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation

Invited Talks

2021 - “On the Deeper Secrets of Deep Neural Networks and a Path Forward”, Beyond AI – Summer School, Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH, Austria (Online)
2021 - "SAN (ノベルティに基づくサブポピュレーションアルゴリズム)による多目的最適化の最先端" IMI研究集会「進化計算の数理」, Kyushu University, Japan
2020 - "1ピクセルで誤魔化される人工知能が人間を超えた？" 第7回AI Optics研究会, Online
2019 - “Deep Turning Point”, Blockchain meets Computer Vision and AI Workshop (held together with CVPR 2019), Long Beach, USA, June 2019
2019 - “Deep Turning Point”, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Okinawa, September 2019
2019 - “Deep Turning Point”, RIKEN, Tokyo, August 2019
2019 - “Current Deep Learning Limitations and the Promise of Evolution-based Learning Systems”, Workshop at Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, February 2019
2018 - 人工知能ってなに？どこにある？　IEEE Metro Area Workshop、Fukuoka, Japan, November 2018
2018 - “Current Deep Learning Limitations and the Promise of Evolution-based Learning Systems”, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, November 2018
2018 - "Confusing Autonomous Vehicles: Adversarial Attacks on the Vehicles' Algorithm", The 20th Congress of International Academy of Comparative Law - Congress in Congress, July 2018

Activity in Scientific Societies

Journal reviews are automatically tracked at Publons (from 2020 on)
Program Committee and/or Reviewer - CVPR 2021 ~ present
Program Committee and/or Reviewer - IJCAI 2021 ~ present
Program Committee and/or Reviewer - AAAI 2021 ~ present
Program Committee and/or Reviewer - AISTATS 2021 ~ present
Program Committee and/or Reviewer - GECCO (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference) 2018 ~ present
Program Committee and/or Reviewer - IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2016 ~ 2020
2019 - Reviewer - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
2019 - Reviewer - Neural Processing Letters
2019 - Reviewer - Visual Computer
2018 - Reviewer - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
2018 - Reviewer - PLoS ONE
2018 - Organizer of the Twenty-First International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (at GECCO 2018) 2018 - Reviewer - Neural Computing and Applications (journal)
2017 - Organizer of the Twentieth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (at GECCO 2017)
2017 - Organizer of the Workshop on Cybersecurity for IoT - Towards Secure Smart Buildings
2017 - Reviewer of Neural Computing and Applications (journal)
2015 - Reviewer of The International Society of Artificial Life and Robotics
2013 - Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (journal)

Disclaimer: Definitions and responsibility differ from place to place, I neither keep track nor make any distinction between Program Committee and Reviewer categories for conferences.