Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details

• Affiliation: Faculty of Environmental, Life, Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University
• Address: 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530 Japan
• Phone Number: +81-86-251-8179
• Fax Number: +81-86-251-8256
• Email: takahashi (at) okayama-u (dot) ac (dot) jp

Education

• 1984-1987: Yabe High School, Kumamoto, Japan
• 1987-1991: Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (1991: Bachelor of Engineering)
• 1991-1993: Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (1993: Master of Engineering)
• 1993-1996: Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (1996: Doctor of Engineering)

Employment

• 1996-1998: Research Associate, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (1996-1997 Visiting Scholar, University of California at Berkeley, USA)
• 1998-2013: Associate Professor, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
• 2013-Present: Professor, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Society Memberships

• The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS)

Editorial Positions

• IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
  • Guest Associate Editor of Special Section on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (2001, 2006, 2007, 2008)
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
  • Associate Editor (January 2008 - December 2009)
• IEICE Wabun Ronbunshi A (in Japanese)
  • Editorial Board Member (May 2009 - May 2013)
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
  • Associate Editor (January 2010 - December 2012)
• Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications, IEICE
  • Secretary (May 2009 - )
  • Guest Editor of Special Section on Recent Progress in Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (September 2014 - October 2015)
  • Guest Associate Editor of Special Section on Recent Progress in Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (July 2018 - April 2019)
  • Advisory Member of Special Section on Topological Data Analysis (September 2022 - April 2023)
  • Guest Associate Editor of Special Section on Cellular Dynamical Systems (June 2023 - January 2024)
  • Guest Associate Editor of Special Section on Recent Advances in Nonlinear Problems (July 2024 - January 2025)
• International Journal of Electronics and Communications
  • Area Editor (February 2014 - December 2016)
  • Editorial Board Member (January 2017 - )

Roles in International Conferences (Since 2018)

• Member of the Program Committee of the 8th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST2018) (June 30 - July 6, 2018, Cordoba, Granada and Seville, Spain)
• Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 2018 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA2018) (September 2-6, 2018, Tarragona, Spain)
• Member of the Program Committee of the 25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2018) (November 13-16, 2018, Siem Reap, Cambodia)
• Member the Program Committee of the 16th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN2019) (July 10-12, 2019, Moscow, Russia)
• Member of the Program Committee of the 9th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST2019) (August 2-5, 2019, Hulunbuir, China)
• Member of the Program Committee of the 11th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications (NCTA2019) (September 17-19, 2019, Vienna, Austria)
• Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 2019 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA2019) (December 2-6, 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
• Member of the Program Committee of the 12th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications (NCTA2020) (November 2-4, 2020, Online)
• Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 2020 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA2020) (November 16-19, 2020, Online)
• Member of the Program Committee of the 27th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2020) (November 18-22, 2020, Online)
• Member of the Program Committee of the 13th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications (NCTA2021) (October 25-27, 2021, Online)
• Member of the Program Committee of the 28th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2021) (December 8-12, 2021, Bali, Indonesia)
• Member of the Program Committee of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP2021) (December 3-7, 2021, Dali, Yunnan, China)
• Member of the Program Committee of IEEE Symposium on Multi-agent System Coordination and Optimization (IEEE MASCO) (December 7, 2021, Online)
• Member of the Review Committee of the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2022) (May 28 - June 1, 2022, Austin, USA + online)
• Member of the Program Committee of the 12th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST2022) (October 14-16, 2022, Kaifeng, Henan, China)
• Member of the Program Committee of the 14th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications (NCTA2022) (October 24-26, 2022, Valletta, Malta + online)
• Member of the Program Committee of the 29th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2022) (November 22-26, 2022, New Delhi, India)
• Member of the Review Committee of the 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2023) (May 21 - 25, 2023, Monterey, California, USA)
• Member of the Program Committee of the 15th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications (NCTA2023) (November 13-15, 2023, Roma, Italy)
• Technical Program Committee Reviewer of the 2023 IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP2023) (December 10-13, 2023, Los Sueños, Costa Rica)
• Member of the Technical Committee of 2024 The 7th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT2024) (March 15-17, 2024, Honolulu, USA)
• Member of the International Technical Committee of the 2024 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Innovation (ICAII2024) (September 12-14, 2024, Bangkok, Thailand)
• Member of the Program Committee of the 31st International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2024) (December 2-6, 2024, Auckland, New Zealand)

Awards

• The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), “Young Researchers' Award” (March 27, 2001)
• Graph Golf 2021, “General Graph Deepest Improvement Award” (jointly awarded with Yoshiki Satotani) (November 24, 2021)
• 2021 IEEE International Conference on Progress in Informatics and Computing (PIC-2021), “Best Paper Award” (jointly awarded with Keiju Hayashi and Tsuyoshi Migita) (December 18, 2021)