NOZAWA Kento

Last updated: Oct. 11 2019

NOZAWA Kento is a Ph.D. student who does research on machine learning. His current research interests are self-supervised learning for NLP and PAC-Bayes theory.

News

Oct. 2019; New pre-print paper: PAC-Bayesian Contrastive Unsupervised Representation Learning
Feb. 2019; New pre-print paper: PAC-Bayes Analysis of Sentence Representation

E-mail: k_nzw {at_mark} klis.tsukuba.ac.jp
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Education

Apr. 2018 – Present, Ph.D. Student
- Department of Complexity Science and Engineering,
  Graduate School of Frontier Sciences,
  The University of Tokyo.
- Advisor: Issei Sato
Apr. 2016 – Mar. 2018, M.S. in Informatics
- Department of Library, Information and Media Studies, Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies,
  University of Tsukuba.
- Advisors: Kei Wakabayashi, Taro Tezuka
- NOTE: Provost’s Award
Apr. 2012 – Mar. 2016, B.A. in Library and Information Science
- College of Knowledge and Library Sciences, School of Informatics,
  University of Tsukuba.
- Advisor: Kei Wakabayashi
- NOTE: Provost’s Award

Fellowships

Apr. 2018 – Mar. 2021: Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1).
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
200 000 JPY / month

Research Grants

Apr. 2018 – Mar. 2021: Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows.
2 800 000 JPY / three years

Awards

May. 2018, Repayment Exemption for Students with Excellent Grades, Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) Type I (interest-free) Scholarship (Exemption of half of loan, 1 056 000 JPY)
Mar. 2018, Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies Provost’s Award
Oct. 2017, 2nd Prize, The Mangaki Data Challenge
Jul. 2016, IPSJ Computer Science Research Award for Young Scientists
Mar. 2016, School of Informatics Provost’s Award
Mar. 2016, Representative of College of Knowledge and Library Science
Nov. 2015, WebDB Forum 2015 Excellent Paper Award

Review

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Work

From	To	Position	Place
May 2018	Present	Research assistant	RIKEN AIP
Oct. 2017	Mar. 2018	Research assistant	AIRC
Aug. 2017	Sept. 2017	Engineer intern	Treasure Data Inc.
Apr. 2016	July 2017	Research assistant	AIRC
Dec. 2015	Mar. 2016	Technical staff	AIRC

Visiting ( $\geq 2$ days)

From	To	Place
June 2019	Sep. 2019	UCL CS
Sep. 2019	Sep. 2019	MODAL at Inria Lille - Nord Europe

Teaching Experience

From	To	Position	Subject Name	Place
Apr. 2017	July 2017	TA	Information mathematics	Univ of Tsukuba
Sept. 2017	Feb. 2017	TA	Programming 2	Univ of Tsukuba
July 2016	Sept. 2016	TA	Programming 1	Univ of Tsukuba