Members

Staff

Han Bao
Assistant professor (Kyoto U.)
Contrastive learning, optimal transport
Benjamin Poignard
Associate professor at Osaka University
Statistics, Econometrics
Mohammad Sabokrou
Staff Scientist
Trustworthy ML
Makoto Yamada
Associate Professor
Sparse learning, optimal transport

Students / RA / Rotation Student

Bakhytzhan Akdavletov
Rotation Ph.D. student (OIST)
TBD
Cléa LAOUAR
Rotation Ph.D. student (OIST)
Optimal transport
Weijie Liu
Ph.D. student (Zhejiang U.)
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

Current interns & visitors

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)
Marianne ABEMGNIGNI NJIFON (Ph.D. student, The University of Goettingen)
Laura Medinilla (Ph.D. student, KAUST)
Naghmeh Jamali (M.S. student, IPM)
Deborah Sulem (Postdoc, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

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)

Rotation student (OIST)

Terezie Sedlinska (May 2023 – Sep 2023)

Students/part-time students

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

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)