Members

Staff

Mohammad Sabokrou

Staff scientist

Trustworthy ML

Makoto Yamada

Associate Professor

optimal transport

Visiting researchers

Han Bao

Assistant professor (Kyoto U.)

Contrastive learning, optimal transport

Christophe Claramunt

Professor (Naval Academy Research Institute, France)

Spatial data processing

Benjamin Poignard

Associate professor at Osaka University

Statistics, Econometrics

Students / RA / Rotation Student

Bakhytzhan Akdavletov

Rotation Ph.D. student (OIST)

TBD

Cléa LAOUAR

Rotation Ph.D. student (OIST)

Optimal transport

Sho Otao

M.S. student (Kyoto U.)

Optimal Transport

Ryoma Sato

Ph.D. student (Kyoto U.)

Recommender Systems, Optimal transport

Yuki Takezawa

Ph.D. student (Kyoto U.)

Federated learning, optimal transport

Research Unit Administrator

Chikako Sugiyama

Current interns & visitors

Kira Dusterwald (Ph.D. student, University College London)
Naghmeh Jamali (M.S. student, IPM)

Alumni

Postdoc/Research Scientist

Marco Fiorucci (Marie-Curie Fellow; 2022, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)
Peter Naylor (Postdoc, RIKEN; 2021-2023, Now Postdoc at European Space Agency)
Héctor Climente (SPDR, RIKEN; 2019-2023, Now Senior Data Scientist, Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford)
Dinesh Singh (Postdoc, RIKEN; 2018-2022, Now an Assistant Prof. at IIT Mandi)
Tam Le (Research Scientist, RIKEN; 2017-2022, Now an Assistant Prof. at ISM)
Jun Lu (Technical Staff; 2018)

Visitors

Deborah Sulem (Postdoc, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Rotation student (OIST)

Terezie Sedlinska (May 2023 – Sep 2023)

Students/part-time students/visiting students

Weijie Liu (Visiting student, Zhejiang University; 2022/October to 2023 October)
Shonosuke Harada (Part-time student, RIKEN AIP; - March 2023)
Issei Kubota (Master student, Kyoto University; – March 2023)
Ayato Toyokuni (Master student, Kyoto University; – March 2022)
Akito Seki（Master student, Kyoto University; – September 2021）
Yuki Tomimura（Undergraduate student, Kyoto University; – September 2021）
Kosuke Morita (Undergraduate student, Kyoto University;  – March 2021)
Kanata Satake (Master student, Kyoto University;  – March 2021)
Tatsuya Shiraishi (Master student, Kyoto University; – March 2021)
Noeru Suzuki (Undergraduate student, Kyoto University; – March 2019)

Interns

Marianne ABEMGNIGNI NJIFON (Ph.D. student, The University of Goettingen)
Laura Medinilla (Ph.D. student, KAUST)
Guillaume Houry (M.S. student, Universite Paris Saclay, Corps des Mines)
Solale Mohammadi (B.S. student, Sharif University of Technology)
Parsa Hosseini (B.S. student Sharif University of Technology)
Yuxuan Wang (Ph.D. Michigan State University)
Pengfei He (Ph.D. Michigan State University)
Haoyu Han (Ph.D. Michigan State University)
Cléa LAOUAR (M.S. student, ENSAE)
Tobias Freidling (Ph.D. student, University of Cambridge)
Mathis Petrovich (Ph.D. student, Ecole des Ponts Paristech)
Chao Liang (Ph.D. student, Zhejiang University)
Shaoshen Wang (Ph.D. student, UTS)
Jenning Lim (Ph.D. student, University of Warwick)
Hirofumi Ohta (Ph.D. student, Rutgers University)
Yanbin Liu (Ph.D. student, UTS)
Qiang Huang (Ph.D. student, Jilin University)
Ankesh Gupta (Undergraduate student, IIT Delhi)
Hector Climente Gonzarez (Ph.D. student, Mines ParisTech)
Ziyin Liu (Ph.D. student, University of Tokyo)
Rui Zhang (Ph.D. student, Georgia Tech)
Liyan Xie (Ph.D. student, Georgia Tech)
Yu Saito (Ph.D. student, University of Tokyo) 
Tasuku Ono (Currently, B.S. student, Harvard University)
Nataliya Polyakovska (Undergraduate student, Kharkiv National University)
Tanmoy Mukherjee (Ph.D. student, University of Edinburgh)
Denny Wu (Ph.D. student, University of Toronto)
Junning Gao (Ph.D. student, Fudan University)
Wenzhao Lian (Ph.D. student, Duke University)
Nurjahan Begum (Ph.D. student, University of California Riverside)
Suriya Gunasekar (Ph.D student, University of Texas Austin)
Alejandro Marcos Alvarez (Ph.D. student, Universite de Liege)