Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

Makino, Takaki   Ph.D.      t-makino-www002@snowelm.com

Google Inc.
111 8th Ave., New York, NY 10011, U.S.A.

Tel. +1-212-565-9000

Degree

Ph.D. (Doctor of Science), the University of Tokyo, 2002

Publications

Click here for publication list.

Experience

2017/8 – present

Software Engineer at Google Inc., NYC Office

2014/4 – 2017/7

Software Engineer at Google Japan Inc.

2011/4 – 2014/3

Project Associate Professor at Collaborative Research Center for Innovative Mathematical Modelling, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo

2005/9 – 2011/3

Project Research Associate at Science Integration Project (Human), Department of Frontier Science and Science Integration, Division of Project Coordination, the University of Tokyo

2005/4 – 2005/8

Project Research Associate at Aihara Lab., Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo

2002/4 – 2005/3

Post-doctoral research fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, working at Aihara Lab., Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Frontier Science, the University of Tokyo

1999/4 – 2002/3

Doctor-course student research fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, working at Tsujii Lab., Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo

Education

2002/3

Ph.D. at Department of Information Science, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo

1999/3

Master of Science at Department of Information Science, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo

1997/3

Bachelor of Science at Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science, the University of Tokyo

1987/4-1993/3

Azabu Junior and Senior High School

Awards

2012/10

A supervised student (Mr. Matsuo) received Honorable Mention of IBIS 2012 Program Committee Award for Young Researcher Posters (IBIS 2012)

2009/10

A supervised student (Mr. Takei) won IBIS 2009 Program Committee Award for Young Researchers (IBIS 2009)

2003/9

Promotion Award of Japanese Neural Network Society

1997/3

Best Presentation Award of the 3rd Association for Natural Language Processing

1996/6

Winner of Parallel Software Contest (PSC'96) at Joint Symposium of Parallel Processing

Professional Bodies

Member of Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence , Associate member of Inter-Personal Relationship Japan , Leader of Bayesian Reinforcement Learning research group , Member of T-PRIMAL

Skills

• Computer program development with C++, perl, Java, HTML, LiLFeS etc.
  • For a list of developed systems, Click here.
  • Submitted 13 bug reports for GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 3620, 9429, 9474, 34825, 35099, 35109, 54922, 55931, 56215, 56323, 56393, 57658, 57831.
• Knowledge of Linguistics and unification-based grammar formalisms (especially HPSG).
• Theory of machine learning.
  • Reinforcement learning, in particular, development of environment models in partially observable environments.
  • Modelling based on Bayesian inference, Bayesian nonparametrics and hierarchical Bayesian models.
  • Neural network models, including deep learning and Boltzmann machines.
  • Support Vector Machines.
• TOEIC score 975 (2011/Jan).

Activities in the Society

• Guest Editor on Relay Reviews "Recent Advances in Reinforcement Learning" in Journal of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (2013/1 - 2013/12)
• Organizer and Chairman of the Symposium "Dreams and Futures of Reinforcement Learning" (c/w the 3rd Edge-of-Smartness Workshop of SICE Technical Committee on Intelligent Systems, the 49th Workshop of the SICE Technical Committee on System Engineering) (2013/9/11)

Received Grants

2013/4-2016/3

Principal Investigator for JSPS Grant-in-aid for Young Scientists (B) "Solver Optimization for Apprenticeship Learning of Environmental Models and Prototyping of Speech Dialogue Systems"

2008/4-2011/3

Principal Investigator for JSPS Grant-in-aid for Young Scientists (B) "Computational Theory of Inductive Reinforcement Learning: Bayesian Inference on Exploration and Inductive Reconstruction"

2008/4-2011/3

Co-Investigator for JSPS Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "Connectome Project X: X-ray microscopy revealing neuronal wiring diagram"

2003/4-2005/3

Co-Investigator for JSPS Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas "Mathematical study on coding and ergodicity in a model brain"

2002/4-2005/3

Principal Investigator for JSPS Grant-in-aid for JSPS Fellows "Semantic Analysis and Inference Learning using Temporally Correlated Neuron Firing Models"

1999/4-2002/3

Principal Investigator for JSPS Grant-in-aid for JSPS Fellows "Ambiguity Inference and Learning Model by Integrating Connectionist Approach"