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Biography

Shohei Shimizu is a Professor at the Faculty of Data Science, Shiga University, Japan, and leads the Causal Inference Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project. He received a Ph.D. in Engineering from Osaka University in 2006. His research interests include statistical methodologies for learning causal relationships and their applications. He invented LiNGAM methods for causal discovery with his collaborators. He received Hayashi Chikio Award (Excellence Award) from the Behaviormetric Society in 2016. He serves as a coordinating editor of Behaviormetrika and as an associate editor of Neurocomputing.

Publication list

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Education

Mar 2006   Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
Supervisors: Yutaka Kano and Aapo Hyvärinen

Mar 2003   Master of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan

Mar 2001   Bachelor of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan

Positions

Apr 2022 - present   Dean, Graduate School of Data Science, Shiga University, Japan

Apr 2019 - Mar 2022   Vice Dean, Graduate School of Data Science, Shiga University, Japan

Apr 2018 - present   Professor, Faculty of Data Science, Shiga University, Japan

Apr 2016 - Mar 2018   Associate Professor, Faculty of Data Science, Shiga University, Japan

Apr 2016 - Mar 2018   Specially-Appointed Associate Professor, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Japan (Cross-Appointed)

Apr 2013 - Mar 2016   Associate Professor, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Japan

Apr 2009 - Mar 2013   Assistant Professor, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Japan

Aug 2008 - Mar 2009   Postdoctoral Researcher, Global COE: Computationism as a Foundation for the Sciences (CompView), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Mentor: Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Apr 2006 - Jul 2008   Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Postdoctoral Researcher)

Apr 2004 - Mar 2006   Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC2), Osaka University, Japan
Supervisor: Yutaka Kano

Adjunct/visiting positions: 

Apr 2021 - present   Visiting researcher, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy

Apr 2020 - present   Collaborative researcher, Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi), Kyoto University

Apr 2018 - present   Visiting researcher, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University

Sep 2016 - present   Team Leader, Causal Inference Team, Center for Advanced Integrated Intelligence Research, RIKEN, Japan

Jul 2014 - Mar 2019  Adjunct Researcher, Data Science Research Center, Kansai University, Japan

Apr 2015 - Mar 2016   Senior Visiting Researcher, Brain Information and Social Action Research Group, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

May 2014 - Mar 2015   Cooperative Visiting Researcher, Brain Information and Social Action Research Group, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

Jun 2006 - Dec 2006  Guest Researcher, Neuroinformatics Group, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
Advisor: Aapo Hyvärinen

Sep 2003 - Mar 2005   Guest Researcher, Neuroinformatics Group, Basic Research Unit, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
Supervisor: Aapo Hyvärinen


略歴

滋賀大学 データサイエンス学系 教授。理化学研究所 革新知能統合研究センター 因果推論チーム チームリーダー。2006年に大阪大学 基礎工学研究科にて博士(工学)を取得。因果関係を推測するための統計解析手法の研究開発と応用に従事。因果探索のためのLiNGAM法の提案者。2016年に日本行動計量学会 林知己夫賞 (優秀賞)を受賞。Bahaviormetrika誌およびNeurocomputing誌の編集委員を務める。

出版物リスト

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学位

2006年3月   博士(工学), 大阪大学 大学院基礎工学研究科
指導教員: 狩野 裕 教授, Aapo Hyvärinen 博士(University of Helsinki, Finland)

2003年3月   修士(人間科学), 大阪大学 大学院人間科学研究科

2001年3月   学士(人間科学), 大阪大学 人間科学部

職歴・研究歴

2018年4月-現在   滋賀大学 データサイエンス学系 教授

2016年4月-2018年3月   滋賀大学 データサイエンス学系 准教授

2016年4月-2018年3月  大阪大学 産業科学研究所 特任准教授 (クロスアポイントメント)

2013年4月-2016年3月   大阪大学 産業科学研究所 准教授

2009年4月-2013年3月   大阪大学 産業科学研究所  助教

2008年8月-2009年3月   東京工業大学 GCOE 計算世界観の深化と展開 グローバルCOE研究員. メンター: 下平 英寿 准教授

2006年4月-2008年7月   日本学術振興会特別研究員 PD

2004年4月-2006年3月   日本学術振興会特別研究員 DC2, 大阪大学. 受入研究者: 狩野 裕 教授

兼業・兼任・客員など

2021年4月- 現在  科学技術・学術政策研究所 客員研究官

2020年4月- 現在  京都大学 高等研究院ヒト生物学高等研究拠点 連携研究者

2018年4月- 現在  京都大学 医学研究科 客員研究員

2016年9月-現在   理化学研究所 革新知能統合研究センター 汎用基盤技術研究グループ 因果推論チーム チームリーダー

2014年7月-2019年3月  関西大学 データサイエンス研究センター 研究員

2015年4月-2016年3月   情報通信研究機構 脳情報通信融合研究センター 脳情報通信融合研究室 特別研究員

2014年5月-2015年3月   情報通信研究機構 脳情報通信融合研究センター 脳情報通信融合研究室 協力研究員

2006年6月-2006年12月 Guest Researcher, Neuroinformatics Group, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
Advisor: Dr. Aapo Hyvärinen

2003年9月-2005年3月   Guest Researcher, Neuroinformatics Group, Basic Research Unit, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
Supervisor: Dr. Aapo Hyvärinen


Invited talks

Talk list

Awards

Nov 2020   IEEE SMC Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award (X. Zhou, W. Liang, I. Kevin, K. Wang, S. Shimizu)

Oct 2020   Shiga University Education Excellence Award

Mar 2019   Shiga University President Award (for administrative work to launch the Graduate School of Data Science)

Sep 2018   Meiko Sugiyama Award (Publication Award). The Behaviormetric Society. To Causal Discovery (2017, Kodansha, in Japanese)

Sep 2016   Hayashi Chikio Award (Excellence Award). The Behaviormetric Society

Mar 2006   Best Student First Author Theory Paper Award.
International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006), Charleston, SC, USA, 2006

招待講演

発表一覧

受賞

2020年11月   IEEE SMC Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award (X. Zhou, W. Liang, I. Kevin, K. Wang, S. Shimizu)

2020年10月   滋賀大学 教育実践優秀賞

2019年3月   滋賀大学 学長賞 (大学院データサイエンス研究科の設置申請作業について)

2018年9月   日本行動計量学会 杉山明子賞 (出版賞) : 統計的因果探索 (講談社, 2017)

2016年9月   日本行動計量学会 林知己夫賞 (優秀賞)

2006年3月   Best Student First Author Theory Paper Award. International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006), Charleston, SC, USA, 2006


Research advising

Thesis supervision

JIANG Yi (Shiga University, 2022.4 - present)

SAKAMOTO Yuji  (Shiga University, 2021.4 - present)

TAGAWA Kentaro  (Shiga University, 2021.4 - present)

KIKUCHI Genta (Shiga University, 2020.4 - present)

Patrick Blöbaum (Osaka University, 2015.4 - 2019.5) Co-supervised with Takashi Washio

Postdoc supervision

MAEDA Nicholas Takashi (RIKEN, 2019.4 - 2022.3)  

LI Chao (RIKEN, 2017.7 - 2021.3)

Intern supervision

ZENG Yan (RIKEN, 2019.10 - 2020.10)

研究指導

博士論文指導

姜 益 (滋賀大学, 2022.4 - 現在)

坂本 雄司 (滋賀大学, 2021.4 - 現在)

田川 健太郎 (滋賀大学, 2021.4 - 現在)

菊池 元太 (滋賀大学, 2020.4 - 現在)

Patrick Blöbaum (大阪大学, 2015.4 - 2019.5) Co-supervised with Takashi Washio

ポスドク指導

前田 高志ニコラス (理化学研究所, 2019.4 - 2022.3)  

李 超 (理化学研究所, 2017.7 - 2021.3)

インターン指導

曾 艳 (RIKEN, 2019.10 - 2020.10)

Grants

KAKENHI

KAKEN: Database of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

Others

Oct 2022 - Mar 2028   JST CREST JPMJCR22D2

Dec 2020 - Nov 2023   ONR N00014-20-1-2501: 262,350 USD

Jan 2017 - Mar 2021   ONRG NICOP N62909-17-1-2034: 283,690 USD

Apr 2018 - Mar 2021   Shiga University Grant for Research Units (Causal discovery unit)

Jul 2005   Travel grant from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation

Jul 2003   Research grant from Osaka University Kouenkai

Industry-university collaboration: 

Joint research

NTT DATA Corporation, AISIN Corporation, DENSO Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, Nitto Denko Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, NTT Communications Corporation

Consulting

AISIN Corporation, KYOCERA Document Solutions Corporate, NIPPON STEEL TEXENG.CO.,LTD., Toray Industries, Inc., DENSO Corporation, SCREEN Advanced System Solutions Co., Ltd., Kobe Steel, Ltd., Lockon Co., Ltd., Nippon Steel Corporation, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation Group, Central Laboratories for Key Technologies, Kirin Company, Limited

Patents

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研究助成

科学研究費補助金

KAKENのページ

それ以外

2022年10月-2028年3月  科学技術振興機構 (JST) 戦略的創造研究推進事業(CREST) JPMJCR22D2

2020年12月 - 2023年11月  ONR N00014-20-1-2501: 262,350 USD

2017年1月 - 2021年3月  ONRG NICOP N62909-17-1-2034: 283,690 USD

2018年4月-2021年3月   滋賀大学 研究ユニット助成事業 (因果探索ユニット)

2005年7月   電気通信普及財団より 海外渡航旅費援助

2003年7月   大阪大学後援会より 教育・ 研究助成金

産学連携: 

共同研究

株式会社エヌ・ティ・ティ・データ, 株式会社アイシン, 株式会社デンソー, 株式会社 東芝, 日東電工株式会社, ソニーセミコンダクタマニュファクチャリング株式会社, エヌ・ティ・ティ・コミュニケーションズ株式会社

学術指導 / コンサルティング

株式会社アイシン, 京セラドキュメントソリューションズ株式会社, 日鉄テックスエンジ株式会社, 東レ株式会社, 株式会社デンソー, SCREENアドバンストシステムソリューションズ, 株式会社神戸製鋼所, ロックオン株式会社, 日本製鐵, 新日鐵住金, キリン株式会社 基盤技術研究所

特許

石橋圭介, 清水昌平, 田代竜也, 品質劣化要因推定装置及び方法, 特許第5825599号

Service to the community

Board member:

Member of the board of directors,  Behaviormetric Society, Apr 2015 - Mar 2018, Apr 2018 - Mar 2021, and Apr 2021 - present

Editorial service:

Guest editor of the special feature on recent developments in causal inference and machine learning in Behaviormetrika, 2022

Action editor of Neural Networks, 2020 - 2021

Associate editor of Neurocomputing, 2019 - present

Editorial board member of Data Science Introductory Series (Kodansha), 2017 - present

Editorial board member of Japanese Journal of Applied Statistics, 2018 - 2020

Coordinating editor of Behaviormetrika, 2016 - present

Guest editor of the special feature on recent developments in causal discovery and inference in Behaviormetrika, 2017 

Guest editor of the special issue on causal discovery in Behaviormetrika, 2014 (with Jun-ichiro Hirayama)[Preface]

Organizer of special session and symposium:

International Workshop on Causality and Philosophy, 4th March 2022

Special session: Causal Inference , The 24th Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2021), 12 Nov. 2021

Hikone Data Science 2021 (HDS2021): International Symposium on Causal Inference and Machine Learning, 2021

Special session: Causal discovery, Second Workshop on Advanced Methodologies for Bayesian Networks (AMBN2015), Yokohama, Japan, 2015

KAKENHI Symposium: Incomplete Data Analysis and Causal Inference, Osaka, Japan, 22-23 Sep. 2013 (co-organizer)

Special session: Learning data generating processes, The 13th Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS2010), Tokyo, Japan, 4 Nov. 2010

(Senior) program committee member:

CLeaR2024: Third conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning, 2024. Area Chair

UAI2023: 39th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2023. Area Chair

CLeaR2023: Second conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning, 2023. Area Chair

UAI2022: 38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2022. Area Chair

CLeaR2022: First conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning, 2022. Area Chair

IBIS2021: The 24th Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences, 2021

UAI2021: 37th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2021. Senior Program Committee Member

NeurIPS2020 Workshop on Causal Discovery and Causality-Inspired Machine Learning

Hikone Data Science 2020 (HDS2020): International Symposium on Data Science Research and Practice, 2020

IJCAI-ECAI 2018:  27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Sweden, 2018. Senior Program Committee Member

AMBN2015: Second Workshop on Advanced Methodologies for Bayesian Networks, Yokohama, Japan, 2015

JSAI2014: The 28th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Matsuyama, Japan, 2014

JSAI2013: The 27th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Toyama, Japan, 2013

IBIS2010: The 13th Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, 2010

Organizing committee member:

The 2023 ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Causal Discovery, Prediction and Decision (CDPD2023)

UAI 2023 Workshop: The History and Development of Search Methods for Causal Structure

Causation in Kyoto: Workshop on the Philosophy, Psychology, and Computer Science of Causation, 2023

UAI2022: 38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2022 Publication Chair

The 47th Annual Meeting of the Behaviormetric Society, Osaka, Japan, 2019

The 17th SANKEN International Symposium (joined with the 2nd International Symposium of Nano-Macro Materials, Devices, and System Research Alliance Project), Osaka, Japan, 2014

DMSS2011: The 5th International Workshop on Data-Mining and Statistical Science, Osaka, Japan, 2011

Reviewing:

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Reviewing of grant proposals:

National Science Foundation, USA (2017, 2020), The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Netherlands (2012)

Reviewing of theses:

SOKENDAI (2021), The University of Sydney (2022), The University of Tokyo (2021), University of Technology Sydney (2017)

学会活動

所属学会

日本行動計量学会、日本計量生物学会

学会役員

日本行動計量学会 大会担当委員会 委員 (2018.11 - 2021.3)

日本行動計量学会 イノベーション委員会 委員 (2018.6 - 2021.3; 2021.7- 現在)

日本行動計量学会 運営委員会 委員 (2015.6 - 2018.3; 2021.7 - 現在)

日本行動計量学会 理事 (2015.4 - 2018.3, 2018.4 - 2021.3; 2021.4 - 現在)

日本行動計量学会 第二次学会活性化検討委員会 委員 (2014.2 - 2015.3)

編集委員

Guest Editor of the special issue on recent developments in causal inference and machine learning in Behaviormetrika, 2022

Action editor of Neural Networks, 2020 - 2021

Associate editor of Neurocomputing, 2019 - 現在

データサイエンス入門シリーズ (講談社) 編集委員 (2017 - 現在)

応用統計学 編集委員 (2018.7 - 2020.3)

Coordinating editor of Behaviormetrika, 2016 - 現在

Guest editor of the special feature on recent developments in causal discovery and inference in Behaviormetrika, 2017 

Guest editor of the special issue on causal discovery in Behaviormetrika, 2014 (with Jun-ichiro Hirayama) [Preface]

企画セッション・シンポジウム

International Workshop on Causality and Philosophy, 4th March 2022

企画セッション ｢因果推論｣, 第24回情報論的学習理論ワークショップ (IBIS2021), 2021年11月12日

Hikone Data Science 2021 (HDS2021): International Symposium on Causal Inference and Machine Learning, 2021

Special session: Causal discovery, Second Workshop on Advanced Methodologies for Bayesian Networks (AMBN2015), Yokohama, Japan, 2015. Session chair

科研費シンポジウム: Incomplete Data Analysis and Causal Inference, 2013年9月22日-23日. 共同オーガナイザー

企画セッション ｢データ生成過程の学習: 因果推論・特徴選択へのアプローチ｣, 第13回情報論的学習理論ワークショップ (IBIS2010), 2010年11月4日. オーガナイザー

プログラム委員

CLeaR2024: Third conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning, 2024. Area Chair

UAI2023: 39th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2023. Area Chair

CLeaR2023: Second conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning, 2023. Area Chair

UAI2022: 38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2022. Area Chair

CLeaR2022: First conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning, 2022. Area Chair

IBIS2021: 第24回情報論的学習理論ワークショップ

UAI2021: 37th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2021. Senior Program Committee Member

NeurIPS2020 Workshop on Causal Discovery and Causality-Inspired Machine Learning

Hikone Data Science 2020 (HDS2020): International Symposium on Data Science Research and Practice, 2020

IJCAI-ECAI 2018:  27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Sweden, 2018. Senior Program Committee Member

AMBN2015: Second Workshop on Advanced Methodologies for Bayesian Networks, Yokohama, Japan, 2015

JSAI2014: 2014年度人工知能学会全国大会, 愛媛

JSAI2013: 2013年度人工知能学会全国大会, 富山

IBIS2010: 第13回情報論的学習理論ワークショップ, 東京

組織委員

The 2023 ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Causal Discovery, Prediction and Decision (CDPD2023)

UAI 2023 Workshop: The History and Development of Search Methods for Causal Structure

Causation in Kyoto: Workshop on the Philosophy, Psychology, and Computer Science of Causation, 2023

UAI2022: 38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2022. Publication Chair

日本行動計量学会第47回大会, 大阪大学, 2019

第17回 産研国際シンポジウム＆アライアンス国際シンポジウム, 大阪大学, 2014

DMSS2011: The 5th International Workshop on Data-Mining and Statistical Science, Osaka, Japan, 2011

論文審査

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Annals of Applied Statistics, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Behaviormetrika, Behavior Research Methods, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Computing and Informatics, Decision Analytics Journal, Empirical Economics, Eurasian Economic Review, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Industry and Innovation, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 応用統計学, 行動計量学, 日本統計学会誌, Journal of Causal Inference, Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, Japanese Psychological Research, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Machine Learning, Multivariate Behavioral Research, National Science Review, Neural Computation, Neurocomputing, NeuroImage, New Generation Computing, 統計数理, Psychometrika, PLOS ONE, Scientific Report, Sociological Methods and Research, Statistics, Transactions on Machine Learning Research

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2021), AAAI-22 Workshop on Information-Theoretic Methods for Causal Inference and Discovery, Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2009, NIPS2010, NIPS2011, NIPS2012, NIPS2013, NIPS2014, NIPS2016, NeurIPS2020, NeurIPS2021), Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2010, ACML2011, ACML2012), Causal Analysis Workshop Series (CAWS2021, CAWS2023), Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2018), IEEE ICDM Workshop on Causal Discovery (CD2013), International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (LVA/ICA2010), International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS2014, AISTATS2016), International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation (ICA2007), International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2012, ICML2013, ICML2014), International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2009, IJCAI2016), KDD Workshop on Causal Discovery (CD2016, CD2017, CD2018, CD2019, CD2020, CD2021, CD2022), ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Causal Discovery, Prediction and Decision (CDPD2023), UAI2017 Causality Workshop, UAI2022 First Workshop on Causal Representation Learning, WHY-21 - Causal Inference & Machine Learning: Why now, NeurIPS 2022 Workshop: A causal view on dynamical systems

助成金審査

National Science Foundation, USA (2017, 2020), The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Netherlands (2012)

博士論文外部審査員

総合研究大学院大学 (2021), The University of Sydney (2022), 東京大学 (2021), University of Technology Sydney (2017)

Teaching

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Administrative work and misc.

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学内委員 (試験委員を除く)

滋賀大学 データサイエンス学系にて

大阪大学 産業科学研究所にて

その他