Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

Makino, Takaki   Ph.D.      t-makino-www002@snowelm.com
Division of Project Coordination, University of Tokyo
5-1-5 Kashiwa-no-ha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba 277-8568 Japan
Tel. +81-4-7136-3973   Fax. +81-4-7136-4100

Research Interest

Computational approaches to brain and mind as a basis of linguistic ability.
  1. Temporal coding and pulsed neural network architecture for semantic representation.
  2. Mathematical model of communication.
  3. Artificial intelligence agents learning to interact.
  4. Theories of reinforcement learning in partially-observable environments, focusing on predictive representation of states and TD-Networks.
  5. Bayesian Inference and its application to Reinforcement Learning.

Degree

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

Publications

Click here for publication list.

Grants

2008/4-2011/3
JSPS Grant-in-aid for Young Scientists (B) "Computational Theory of Inductive Reinforcement Learning: Bayesian Inference on Exploration and Inductive Reconstruction"

Awards

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

Experience

2005/9 – present
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
Completed doctor course at Department of Information Science, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo
1999/3
Completed master course at Department of Information Science, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo
1997/3
Graduated Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science, the University of Tokyo

Professional Bodies

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

Skills

  • Research interest in artificial neural network techniques, especially recurrent networks, temporal-coding systems, and support-vector machines.
  • Computer program development with C++, perl, Java, HTML, LiLFeS etc. For a list of developed systems, Click here.
  • Knowledge of Linguistics and unification-based grammar formalisms (especially HPSG)