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

• Tenured Assistant Professor, Oct. 2024 - Present
  Nagoya Institute of Technology, Ozono Laboratory
• Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Apr. 2021 - Oct. 2024
  Nagoya Institute of Technology, Ozono Laboratory
  • Research Seminar (2nd semester, 2021 - Present)
  • Exercise II for AI Programming (2nd semester, 2021 - Present)
  • Advanced Programming (1st semester, 2021 - Present)
  • Web Intelligence (1st semester, 2021 - Present)
  • Advanced Experiments on Electrical and Computer Engineering (2nd semester, 2024)

Publications

Awards

1. Rena Suzuki, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Research Encouragement Award, IEICE SIG-AI, July 2025.
2. Masato Kikuchi. Faculty Evaluation Excellence Award, Nagoya Institute of Technology, June 2025.
3. Saki Imanishi, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Encouragement Award, SMASH25 Winter Symposium, Feb. 2025.
4. Yuna Kaneko, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Excellence Award, SMASH24 Summer Symposium, Sept. 2024.
5. Masato Kikuchi. Encouragement Award, Center for Innovative Young Researchers, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Mar. 2024.
6. Masato Kikuchi. Faculty Evaluation Excellence Award, Nagoya Institute of Technology, May 2023.
7. Masato Kikuchi. Encouragement Award, Center for Innovative Young Researchers, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Mar. 2023.
8. Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Excellence Award, SMASH23 Winter Symposium, Feb. 2023.
9. Masato Kikuchi, Mitsuo Yoshida, Kyoji Umemura, Tadachika Ozono. FIT Best Paper Award, The 20th Forum on Information Technology (FIT 2021), Sept. 2022.
10. Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Honorable Mention Award, ESKM 2022, July 2022.
11. Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Excellence Award, SMASH22 Winter Symposium, Feb. 2022.
12. Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Encouragement Award, SMASH22 Winter Symposium, Feb. 2022.
13. Yuma Ito, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Encouragement Award, SMASH21 Summer Symposium, Sept. 2021.
14. Masato Kikuchi. Student Research Encouragement Award (Master's Course), IEICE Tokai-Section, June 2017.

Awards Received by Supervised Students

1. Yudai Yamamoto, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 88th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2026.
2. Rena Suzuki, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. IEEE Computer Society Japan Chapter SMASH Young Researcher Award, SMASH25 Summer Symposium, July 2025.
3. Takumi Kato, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 87th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2025.
4. Shiori Nakamura, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 87th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2025.
5. Taiki Hayase, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Encouragement Award, 2024 Tokai-Section Joint Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Information, and Related Engineering, Dec. 2024.
6. Shiori Nakamura, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. IEEE Nagoya Section Student Award, 2024 Tokai-Section Joint Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Information, and Related Engineering, Oct. 2024.
7. Shogo Anda. Student Research Encouragement Award (Master's Course), IEICE Tokai-Section, June 2024.
8. Helton Agbewonou Yawovi, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 86th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2024.
9. Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award, Information Processing Society of Japan, Mar. 2024.
10. Shogo Anda. Research Encouragement Grant (50,000 JPY), NITech Fund Student Research Encouragement Project, Feb. 2024.
11. Yuma Ito. Student Research Encouragement Award (Master's Course), IEICE Tokai-Section, June 2023.
12. Yuma Ito, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 85th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2023.
13. Yuna Kaneko, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 85th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2023.
14. Rena Suzuki, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 85th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2023.
15. Nur Irfan Nafis Bin Md Nor, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 84th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2022.
16. Kaho Ito, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 84th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2022.
17. Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 84th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2022.
18. 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. Takumi Kato. Deneikai Award, Deneikai, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Mar. 2025.
2. Shogo Anda. Repayment Exemption for Students with Excellent Grades (Exemption of Half of Loan, Category I Loans), JASSO, July 2024.
3. Ezoa Avotchi Michel Djangoran. PRIX DE RECONNAISSANCE 2023 (Recognition Award 2023), Embassy of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire in Japan, Dec. 2023.
4. Rena Suzuki. BFT Award - BFT Inc., JPHACKS 2023, Nov. 2023.
5. Yuma Ito. Repayment Exemption for Students with Excellent Grades (Exemption of Half of Loan, Category I Loans), JASSO, July 2023.
6. Yuna Kaneko. Deneikai Award, Deneikai, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Mar. 2023.
7. Saki Imanishi, Yuna Kaneko, Tomoya Sakabe, Rena Suzuki. Innovator Certification, JPHACKS 2022, Nov. 2022.
8. Saki Imanishi, Yuna Kaneko, Tomoya Sakabe, Rena Suzuki. Sponsor Award - FUJIFILM Corporation, JPHACKS 2022, Oct. 2022.

Research Grants and Joint Research

1. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists. Low-Frequency Data Processing Methods Using "Soft Threshold" in Conditional Probability Estimation. Apr. 2025 - Mar. 2028.
2. The Hibi Science Foundation, Research Grant (General Research Project: 1,000,000 JPY). Development of Efficient Detection Method for Low-Frequency Aspect Categories from Review Texts. May 2024 - May 2025.
3. Nagoya Institute of Technology, Internal Research Grant (Young Researcher Support: 500,000 JPY). Establishing Conservative Estimation Methods for Mutual Information. Apr. 2024 - Mar. 2025.
4. 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 (C). Visualization and Preventive Support for Difficulties Encountered during Overseas Activities Using Smartphone Vocabulary Search and GPS. Apr. 2026 - Mar. 2030.
2. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B). Developing a Real-time Learning Analytics System Exploiting Weak Responses of Students. Apr. 2024 - Mar. 2028.
3. Japan Science and Technology Agency, AJ-CORE. Geo-spatial Risk Index Tool (GSRIT) to Monitor Human-Nature Conflicts in South Africa, Kenya and Botswana. Apr. 2024 - Mar. 2027.
4. 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 - Present)
  • Committee Member, Working Group for Best Paper Award Selection (2025 - Present)
  • Editorial Committee Member, Journal of Information Processing (2025 - Present)
  • Organizer, Special Interest Group on Intelligence and Complex Systems (SIG-ICS) (2024 - Present)
  • Program Planning Working Group Member, The 87th National Convention of IPSJ (2024 - 2025)
  • Editorial Committee Member, Special Issue on "Agent Theory, Technology, and Its Applications," Journal of Information Processing (2022 - 2023)
• The Database Society of Japan (Member 2022 - Present)
• IEEE (Member 2021 - Present)
• The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (Member 2021 - Present)
  • Committee Member, FIT 2026 Special Interest Group (2025 - Present)
  • Organizer, Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIG-AI) (2025 - Present)
  • Organizing Committee Member, SMASH26 Winter Symposium (2025 - 2026)
  • Editorial Committee Member, Special Section on Software Agent and Its Applications, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (Japanese Edition) (2024 - 2025)
• The Association for Natural Language Processing (Member 2021 - Present, Student Member 2017 - 2021)

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