Masato Kikuchi, Ph.D.

[English] / [Japanese]

Education

• Ph.D. in Engineering, Mar. 2021
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology
• M.E., Mar. 2018
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology
• B.E., Mar. 2016
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology

Career

• Assistant Professor, Apr. 2021 - ...
  Nagoya Institute of Technology, Ozono Laboratory

Publications

Awards

1. Masato Kikuchi. Encouragement Award, Center for Innovative Young Researchers, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Mar. 2024.
2. Masato Kikuchi. Faculty Evaluation Excellence Award, Nagoya Institute of Technology, May 2023.
3. Masato Kikuchi. Encouragement Award, Center for Innovative Young Researchers, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Mar. 2023.
4. Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Excellence Award, SMASH23 Winter Symposium, Feb. 2023.
5. Masato Kikuchi, Mitsuo Yoshida, Kyoji Umemura, Tadachika Ozono. FIT Best Paper Award, Forum on Information Technology 2021, Sept. 2022.
6. Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Honorable Mention Award, ESKM 2022, July 2022.
7. Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Excellence Award, SMASH22 Winter Symposium, Feb. 2022.
8. Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Encouragement Award, SMASH22 Winter Symposium, Feb. 2022.
9. Yuma Ito, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Encouragement Award, SMASH21 Summer Symposium, Sept. 2021.
10. Masato Kikuchi. Student Award, IEICE Tokai-Section, June 2017.

Awards for Student Members

1. Helton Agbewonou Yawovi, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 86th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2024.
2. Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award, Information Processing Society of Japan, Mar. 2024.
3. Shogo Anda. Financial Incentive (50,000 JPY), NITech Fund Student Research Encouragement Project, Feb. 2024.
4. Yuma Ito. Student Award, IEICE Tokai-Section, June 2023.
5. Yuma Ito, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 85th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2023.
6. Yuna Kaneko, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 85th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2023.
7. Rena Suzuki, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 85th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2023.
8. Nur Irfan Nafis Bin Md Nor, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 84th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2022.
9. Kaho Ito, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 84th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2022.
10. Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 84th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2022.
11. Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. IEEE Nagoya Section Student Award, 2021 Tokai-Section Joint Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Information, and Related Engineering, Dec. 2021.

1. Ezoa Avotchi Michel Djangoran. PRIX DE RECONNAISSANCE 2023 (Recognition Award 2023), Embassy of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire in Japan, Dec. 2023.
2. Rena Suzuki. BFT Award - BFT Inc., JPHACKS 2023, Nov. 2023.
3. Yuma Ito. Repayment Exemption for Students with Excellent Grades (Exemption of Half of Loan, Category I Loans), JASSO, July 2023.
4. Yuna Kaneko. Deneikai Award, Deneikai, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Mar. 2023.
5. Saki Imanishi, Yuna Kaneko, Tomoya Sakabe, Rena Suzuki. Innovator Certification, JPHACKS 2022, Nov. 2022.
6. Saki Imanishi, Yuna Kaneko, Tomoya Sakabe, Rena Suzuki. Block Sponsor Award - FUJIFILM Corporation, JPHACKS 2022, Oct. 2022.

Research Grants

1. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists. Conservative Estimation Methods for Mutual Information based on Observed Frequencies. Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2025.

1. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B). Development of a Real-Time Learning Analytics Model Utilizing Studentsf Micro-Reactions. Apr. 2024 - Mar. 2028.
2. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C). Effectiveness Measurement and Satisfaction Survey by Usability Scale for Reuse of Existing English Vocabulary Lists. Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2026.

Affiliations and Activities

• Information Processing Society of Japan (Member 2022 - ...)
• Organizer, Special Interest Group on Intelligence and Complex Systems (SIG-ICS) (2024 - ...)
• Editorial Committee of the Journal of Information Processing, Special Issue of "Agent Theory, Technology, and its Applications" (2022 - 2023)
• IEEE (Member 2021 - ...)
• The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (Member 2021 - ...)
• The Association for Natural Language Processing (Member 2021 - ..., Student Member 2017 - 2021)

• IEEE 12th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2023)
• Technical Program Committee
• The 9th International Conference on Advanced Informatics: Concepts, Theory and Applications (ICAICTA 2022)
• Technical Program Committee

Contact Information

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