Masato Kikuchi, Ph.D.
[English] / [Japanese]
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Engineering
Nagoya Institute of Technology
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 - ...
- Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Apr. 2021 - Oct. 2024
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Ozono Laboratory
- Advanced Experiments on Electrical and Computer Engineering (2nd semester, 2024 - ...)
- Research Seminar (2nd semester, 2021 - ...)
- ExerciseU for AI Programming (2nd semester, 2021 - ...)
- Advanced Programming (1st semester, 2021 - ...)
- Web Intelligence (1st semester, 2021 - ...)
Awards
- Masato Kikuchi. Faculty Evaluation Excellence Award, Nagoya Institute of Technology, June 2025.
- Saki Imanishi, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Encouragement Award, SMASH25 Winter Symposium, Feb. 2025.
- Yuna Kaneko, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Excellence Award, SMASH24 Summer Symposium, Sept. 2024.
- Masato Kikuchi. Encouragement Award, Center for Innovative Young Researchers, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Mar. 2024.
- Masato Kikuchi. Faculty Evaluation Excellence Award, Nagoya Institute of Technology, May 2023.
- Masato Kikuchi. Encouragement Award, Center for Innovative Young Researchers, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Mar. 2023.
- Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Excellence Award, SMASH23 Winter Symposium, Feb. 2023.
- Masato Kikuchi, Mitsuo Yoshida, Kyoji Umemura, Tadachika Ozono. FIT Best Paper Award, Forum on Information Technology 2021, Sept. 2022.
- Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Honorable Mention Award, ESKM 2022, July 2022.
- Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Excellence Award, SMASH22 Winter Symposium, Feb. 2022.
- Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Encouragement Award, SMASH22 Winter Symposium, Feb. 2022.
- Yuma Ito, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Encouragement Award, SMASH21 Summer Symposium, Sept. 2021.
- Masato Kikuchi. Student Award, IEICE Tokai-Section, June 2017.
Awards for Student Members
Note: This category does not overlap with "Awards" above.
Research
- Takumi Kato, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 87th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2025.
- Shiori Nakamura, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 87th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2025.
- Taiki Hayase, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Encouragement Award, 2024 Tokai-Section Joint Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Information, and Related Engineering, Dec. 2024.
- 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.
- Shogo Anda. Student Award, IEICE Tokai-Section, June 2024.
- Helton Agbewonou Yawovi, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 86th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2024.
- Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award, Information Processing Society of Japan, Mar. 2024.
- Shogo Anda. Financial Incentive (50,000 JPY), NITech Fund Student Research Encouragement Project, Feb. 2024.
- Yuma Ito. Student Award, IEICE Tokai-Section, June 2023.
- Yuma Ito, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 85th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2023.
- Yuna Kaneko, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 85th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2023.
- Rena Suzuki, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 85th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2023.
- Nur Irfan Nafis Bin Md Nor, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 84th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2022.
- Kaho Ito, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 84th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2022.
- Shogo Anda, Masato Kikuchi, Tadachika Ozono. Student Encouragement Award, The 84th National Convention of IPSJ, Mar. 2022.
- 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.
Education
- Takumi Kato. Deneikai Award, Deneikai, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Mar. 2025.
- Shogo Anda. Repayment Exemption for Students with Excellent Grades (Exemption of Half of Loan, Category I Loans), JASSO, July 2024.
- Ezoa Avotchi Michel Djangoran. PRIX DE RECONNAISSANCE 2023 (Recognition Award 2023), Embassy of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire in Japan, Dec. 2023.
- Rena Suzuki. BFT Award - BFT Inc., JPHACKS 2023, Nov. 2023.
- Yuma Ito. Repayment Exemption for Students with Excellent Grades (Exemption of Half of Loan, Category I Loans), JASSO, July 2023.
- Yuna Kaneko. Deneikai Award, Deneikai, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Mar. 2023.
- Saki Imanishi, Yuna Kaneko, Tomoya Sakabe, Rena Suzuki. Innovator Certification, JPHACKS 2022, Nov. 2022.
- Saki Imanishi, Yuna Kaneko, Tomoya Sakabe, Rena Suzuki. Block Sponsor Award - FUJIFILM Corporation, JPHACKS 2022, Oct. 2022.
Research Grants
Principal Investigator
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Co-Investigator
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
Academic Societies
- Information Processing Society of Japan (Member 2022 - ...)
- Editorial Committee Member, Journal of Information Processing (2025 - ...)
- Program Planning Working Group Member, The 87th National Convention of IPSJ (2024 - 2025)
- Organizer, Special Interest Group on Intelligence and Complex Systems (SIG-ICS) (2024 - ...)
- Editorial Committee Member of the Journal of Information Processing, Special Issue of "Agent Theory, Technology, and its Applications" (2022 - 2023)
- The Database Society of Japan (Member 2022 - ...)
- IEEE (Member 2021 - ...)
- The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (Member 2021 - ...)
- Member, Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIG-AI) (2025 - ...)
- Editorial Committee Member, Special Section of IEICE Trans. Inf.& Syst. (2024 - ...)
- The Association for Natural Language Processing (Member 2021 - ..., Student Member 2017 - 2021)
Other Activities
Peer Review Experience
- IEEE 14th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2025), 2025
- IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2025
- IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2025
- The 11th International Conference on Advanced Informatics: Concepts, Theory and Applications (ICAICTA 2024), 2024
- IEEE 13th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2024), 2024
- IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (Japanese Edition), 2024
- The 10th International Conference on Advanced Informatics: Concepts, Theory and Applications (ICAICTA 2023), 2023
- IEEE 12th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2023), 2023
- Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 2023
- IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2022
- The 9th International Conference on Advanced Informatics: Concepts, Theory and Applications (ICAICTA 2022), 2022
- IEEE 10th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2021), 2021
Masato Kikuchi / en ^l
Ozono Laboratory, Dept. of Computer Science, Nagoya Institute of Technology
Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 466-8555 Japan
(My room: 202A, Building 2, Nagoya Institute of Technology)
Email: kikuchi.masato (at) nitech.ac.jp
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