Curriculum Vitae
Shiro Ikeda

Current Position
Professor
Department of Statistical Inference and Mathematics
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
10–3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8562, Japan
Phone: +81 50 5533 8426
Fax: +81 42 526 4339
Email: shiro@ism.ac.jp
Homepage: http://www.ism.ac.jp/˜shiro

Personal Details
Gender: Male
Date of birth: 21/December/1968
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Private Address: 3–25–1 Nukuikita-machi, Koganei, Tokyo 184-0015, Japan
Present Citizenship: Japanese

Education
Apr/1993–Mar/1996 Doctor course student of Mathematical Engineering and Information
Physics at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
(Doctor of Engineering, March, 1996).
Thesis : Estimating the structure of the sources;(Under supervision of Professor Kaoru Nakano)Apr/1991–Mar/1993 Master course student of Mathematical Engineering and Information
Physics at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
(Master of Engineering, March, 1993).
Thesis: Construct the structure of Hidden Markov Models;(Under supervision of Professor Kaoru Nakano)Apr/1987–Mar/1991 Undergraduate student of Mathematical Engineering and Information
Physics at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
(Bachelor of Engineering, March, 1991).

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Experience
Apr/2016–PresentProfessor
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan

Feb/2003–Mar/2016 Associate Professor
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan
Apr/2001–Jan/2003 Associate Professor
Department of Brain Science and Engineering,
Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering,
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan
Oct/1998–Mar/2001 Researcher“Information and Human Activity,” PRESTO, Japan Science andTechnology Corporation (JST), Saitama, Japan
Apr/1996–Sep/1998 Special Postdoctoral Researcher
The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Saitama,Japan
Jan/1996–Mar/1996 Research Fellow
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD), Tokyo, Japan
Visiting Positions
Apr/2017–

Visiting Professor
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

May/2016–Visiting Senior Scientist
Kavli IPMU, The University of Tokyo

May/2022–July/2022 Theoretical Science Visiting Program
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology,
Apr/2010–Mar/2016 Visiting Associate Professor
Deptartment of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science,
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Apr/2008–Oct/2008 Visiting Academic
Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, The University ofMelbourne
Oct/2007–Apr/2008 Visiting Academic
The Research School of Information Sciences & Engineering (RSISE),
Australian National University
Apr/2004–Mar/2006 Visiting Researcher
Mathematical Neuroscience Laboratory, Brain-Style Information System Group, Brain Science Institute, The Institute of Physical andChemical Research (RIKEN)

2Apr/2003–Mar/2004 Visiting AcademicGatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London,(under the fellowship between Japan Society for the Promotion ofScience, and Royal Society)

Academic Honors and Awards
Jan/2021

Royal Astronomical Society 2021 Group Achievement Award
Winner: The Event Horizon telescope (EHT)

May/2020

2020 Einstein Medal
Winner: Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Scientific Collaboration

Sep/2019

2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Winner: The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

May/2019

National Science Foundation Diamond Achievement Award
Winner: The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Sep/2001

Japan Neural Network Society Best Paper Award
S. Ikeda and K. Toyama “Independent component analysis for noisy
data–MEG data analysis,” Neural Networks, 13(10), 2000

Editorial Board Membership & Scientific Expert
Associate editor Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (2008–2017),
IEEE transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2012–2014)
Co-editor

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (2005–2008)

Action Editor

Neural Information Processing – Letters and Reviews (2005–)

Editor

Neural Networks (2006–2013)

International Program Committee ICA2003 (Kyoto, Japan), ICA2006 (Charleston,USA)
Local Organizing Committee 2nd International Symposium on Information Geometry
and its Applications, December, 2005 Tokyo, Japan
Technical Committee ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audio Processing, October 2004, Jeju, Korea
Review experiences
JournalsIEEE transactions (Biological Engineering, Communications, Information
Theory, Neural Networks, and, Signal and Audio Procession), IEEE Proceedings, Neurocomptuting, IEICE transactions, Signal Processing, Neural Networks, Physical review research, Publications of the Astronomical
Society of Japan, Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Astronomical Journal,
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B, Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, Information geometry, Entropy, Journal of Machine
Learning Research, Nature Methods
3Conferences Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) (1999–2015), International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (2007), Series of ICA (Independent Component Analysis andBlind Source Separation) conferences, IEEE International Symposium onInformation Theory (ISIT), IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW),IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks,

Teaching
CourcesObservational Astronomy, Advanced Course II– Department of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo– Intensive course, Japanese, 2021
Special Lecture on Astronomy IX– Department of Astronomical Science, SOKENDAI– Intensive course, English, 2020Interstellar Physics Special Lecture– Department of Physics, Nagoya University– Intensive course, Japanese, 2018
Lecture Series of Data Science in Physics– Graduate School of Arts and Science, The University of Tokyo– Intensive course, Japanese, 2018
Lecture Series of Data Science in Astronomy– Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo– Intensive course, Japanese, 2017
Compressed sensing: Theory and Applications– Department of Informatics, Kyushu University– Intensive course, Japanese, 2012, 2013
Lecture Series of Computational Mathematics 1– Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University– Intensive course, Japanese, 2005
Brain Style Pattern Recognition– Department of Brain Science and Engineering, Kyushu Instituteof Technology– Regular course, Japanese, 2001, 2002

Ph.D Students

Masatoshi Hamada (Graduate University of Advanced Studies)
Yuichi Shiraishi (Graduate University of Advanced Studies)4

Grants
2020–2023 (granted) JSPS Kakenhi, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 20H01951“New imaging method for ALMA with sparse modeling”
Principal-Investigator
2020–2022 (granted) JST, AIP Acceleration Research“Cosmology with Big Astronomcal Data Using Innovative Image Analysis Methods”
Co-Investigator (PI: Naoki Yoshida)
2019–2024 (granted) JSPS Kakenhi, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research(B), 19KK0081“Exploring dynamic pictures of supermassive black holes with movie
reconstruction from event-horizon-scale observations”
Co-Investigator (PI: Mareki Honma)
2017–2020

JSPS Kakenhi, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), 17H01116“Development of commensal FRB search engine for VERA and observational studies of transient sources”
Co-Investigator (PI: Mareki Honma)

2014–2019

JST, CREST“Statistical Computational Cosmology with Big Astronomical Imaging
Data”
Co-Investigator (PI: Naoki Yoshida)

2013–2017

MEXT Kakenhi, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on InnovativeAreas, Initiative for High-Dimensional Data-Driven Science throughDeepening of Sparse Modeling, 25120008“Approach to sparse modeling based on compressed sensing Planned”
Co-Investigator (PI: Toshiyuki Tanaka)

2013–2015

MIC, SCOPE“Research and development of a small-degree-of-freedom interface formulti-degree-of-freedom remote-robot control”
Co-Investigator (PI: Jun Morimoto)2012–2014

JSPS Kakenhi, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 24560490“Communication channel capacity and optimization of probabilitymeasure”
Principal-Investigator

2010–2013

JSPS Kakenhi, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 22300098“Mathematical foundation of efficient algorithms for statistical inference”
Co-Investigator (PI: Kenji Fukumizu)

2009–2012

JSPS Kakenhi, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 21300092“Extraction of synergetic structure of whole body movements and its
application to human assisting system”
Co-Investigator (PI: Yutaka Sakaguchi)
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2006–2009

MEXT Kakenhi, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, 18079013“Theoretical analysis and information engineering application of approximate inference methods”
Principal-Investigator

2004–2006

JSPS Kakenhi, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 16700227“Information geometrical analysis of the cluster variational method”
Principal-Investigator

2004–2007

JSPS Kakenhi, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 16300088“New statistical methodology for genome diversity analysis”
Co-Investigator (PI: Shinto Eguchi)

2003–2005

MEXT Kakenhi, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, 14084208“Analysis of Belief Propagation algorithms based on Information Geometry”
Co-Investigator (PI: Yoichi Motomura)

2002

MEXT Kakenhi, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, 14084208“Analysis of Belief Propagation algorithms based on Information Geometry”
Principal-Investigator

1998–2001

JST, PRESTO“Mathematical analysis of the EM algorithm and its applications inengineering”
Principal-Investigator(information as of 20 February, 2022)

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