Last updated: 10 April 2019

NOZAWA Kento is a Ph.D. student who does research on machine learning. His current research interests are self-supervised learning for discrete data.

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News

• I will be at UCL from 18 June to 22 Sep. (2019).
• New paper: PAC-Bayes Analysis of Sentence Representation

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• E-mail: k_nzw {at_mark} klis.tsukuba.ac.jp
• CV
• Google Scholar
• DBLP
• Speakerdeck
• Lab HP

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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

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Fellowships

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

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Research Grants

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

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Awards

1. 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)
2. Mar. 2018, Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies Provost’s Award
3. Oct. 2017, 2nd Prize, The Mangaki Data Challenge
4. Jul. 2016, IPSJ Computer Science Research Award for Young Scientists
5. Mar. 2016, School of Informatics Provost’s Award
6. Mar. 2016, Representative of College of Knowledge and Library Science
7. Nov. 2015, WebDB Forum 2015 Excellent Paper Award

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Work/Research Experience

From	To	Position	Place
June 2019	Sep. 2019	Internship	APRIORI at UCL
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

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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

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Links

• Something2vec paper list
• Cat photos
• VAE note (ja)

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Red Green Black and White means a name of fictional scientist: MAGATA Shiki.