

TAKIGAWA, Ichigaku
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Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
The University of Tokyo -
Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (ICReDD)
Hokkaido University
Labs
- Data-Driven Intelligence Lab (UTokyo)
- Takigawa group (HU)
Profile
- Author Profile (Google Scholar)
- ResearcherID (Thomson Reuters)
- researchmap (JST)
- ORCID | DBLP | PubMed | scopus | semanticscholar | wikidata
Highlight
- Top reviewer (Top 10%), NeurIPS 2023. link
- Top reviewer (Top 10%), NeurIPS 2022. link
- Distinguished PC (Top 3%), IJCAI-ECAI 2022. link
- Outstanding reviewer (Top 10%), ICML 2022. link
- Highlighted reviewer, ICLR 2022. link
- Expert reviewer, ICML 2021. link
- Top reviewer (Top 33%), ICML 2020. link
- Best reviewer, NeurIPS 2019. link
- Active reviewer, IJCAI 2019. link
- Top reviewer (Top 30%), NeurIPS 2018. link
Talk
Work
- DrawMolToMPL: RDKit mol drawing with matplotlib
https://github.com/itakigawa/mpl_rdkit_utils - ChemProp in PyTorch Geometric
https://github.com/itakigawa/pyg_chemprop - Listing all frequent subgraph-substring pairs in graph-string pairs
https://github.com/itakigawa/grasp
Education
- 2004: Ph.D., Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Engineering
- 2001: M.Eng., Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Engineering
- 1999: B.Eng., Hokkaido University, Faculty of Engineering
Appointments
- Apr 2025 - present: Professor, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
- Apr 2019 - present: Principal Investigator, Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University
- Feb 2023 - Mar 2025: Program-Specific Professor, Center for Innovative Research and Education in Data Science, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kyoto University
- Feb 2023 - Mar 2025: Visiting Scientist, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
- Apr 2019 - Jan 2023: Research Scientist, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
- Oct 2014 - Mar 2019: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University
- Jan 2012 - Sep 2014: Assistant Professor, Creative Research Institution (CRIS), Hokkaido University
- May 2010 - Aug 2010: Visiting Researcher, Bioinformatics Program, Boston University
- Apr 2007 - Dec 2011: Assistant Professor, Division of Bioinformatics and Chemical Genomics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, Kyoto University
- Aug 2005 - Dec 2011: Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University
- Apr 2005 - Jul 2005: Research Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University
- Apr 2004 - Mar 2005: Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University
- Apr 2002 - Feb 2003: Adjunct Instructor, Sapporo University
- Sep 2001 - Sep 2001: Adjunct Instructor, Otaru University of Commerce
Grants
- Jul 2021 - Mar 2025: Co-PI, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research #21375759
(Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology) - Apr 2021 - Mar 2025: PI, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research #21K12041
(Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology) - Nov 2020 - Mar 2025: Co-PI, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research #20H05962
(Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology) - Sep 2020 - Mar 2025: Co-PI, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research #20H00323
(Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology) - Apr 2020 - Mar 2025: Co-PI, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research #20H00605
(Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology) - Apr 2020 - Aug 2020: Co-PI, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research #20H00323
(Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology) - Apr 2018 - Mar 2020: Co-PI, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research #15H05711
(Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology) - Jul 2017 - Mar 2021: PI, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research #17K19953
(Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology) - Apr 2017 - Mar 2021: PI, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research #17H01783
(Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology) - Apr 2016 - Mar 2017: PI, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research #16K13852
(Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology) - Dec 2015 - Mar 2019: PI, JST PRESTO #JPMJPR15N9
(Japan Science and Technology Agency) - Apr 2014 - Mar 2017: PI, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research #26330242
(Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology) - Apr 2014 - Mar 2016: PI, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research #26120503
(Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology) - Apr 2013 - Mar 2016: Co-PI, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research #25280079
(Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology) - Apr 2011 - Mar 2014: PI, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research #23710233
(Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology) - Apr 2008 - Mar 2011: PI, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research #20700134
(Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology) - Oct 2007 - Sep 2010: Co-PI, Bioinformatics Research and Development (BIRD)
(Japan Science and Technology Agency) - Apr 2006 - Mar 2008: PI, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research #10374597
(Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology) - Apr 2005 - Mar 2006: PI, Start-up Research Funding for Young Investigators
(Kyoto University)
Memberships
- IEEE (The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Senior Member
- ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
- JSAI (The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence)
- JSBi (Japanese Society for Bioinformatics)
Academic Activities
- Area Chair, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025, San Diego, USA, Dec 9-Dec 15, 2024.
- Reviewer, The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025, Vancouver, Canada, July 13-Jul 17, 2025.
- SPC, The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2025, Montreal, Canada, Aug 16-Aug 22, 2025.
- Reviewer, The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025, Singapore, Apr 24-28, 2025.
- Reviewer, The Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2025, Philadelphia, USA, Feb 25-Mar 4, 2025.
- Area Chair, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024, Vancouver, Canada, Dec 9-Dec 15, 2024.
- Reviewer (Top reviewer, Top 10%), Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023, New Orleans, USA, Dec 11-Dec 17, 2023.
- Reviewer (Top reviewer, Top 10%), Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022, New Orleans, USA, Nov 28-Dec 9, 2022.
- Program Committee (Distinguised PC, Top 3%), The 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2022), Vienna, Austria, July 23-29, 2022.
- Reviewer (Outstanding reviewer, Top 10%), The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2022, Baltimore, USA, July 17-23, 2022.
- Reviewer (Highlighted reviewer), The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2022), Virtual, Apr 25-29, 2022.
- Reviewer, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021, Virtual, Dec 6-14, 2021.
- Reviewer (Expert reviewer), The 38th International Conference on Machine Learnig (ICML 2021), Jul 18-24, Virtual, 2021
- Program Committee, The 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021), Aug 21-26, Montreal, Canada, 2021
- Reviewer, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR2021), Vienna, Austria, May 4-8, 2021
- Reviewer, The 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2021), Apr 13-15, San Diego, California, USA, 2021
- Reviewer, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020, Vancouver, Canada, Dec 6-12, 2020.
- Reviewer (Top reviewer, top 33%), The Thirty-seventh International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020), Vienna, Austria, July 12-18, 2020.
- Reviewer, The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2020), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 27-30, 2020.
- Reviewer (Best reviewer), Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2019, Vancouver, Canada, December 9-14, 2019.
- Reviewer (Active reviewer), The 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019), Macao, China, August 10-16, 2019.
- Program Committee, The 2019 Uncertainty in AI Conference (UAI 2019), Tel Aviv, Israel, July 22-25, 2019.
- Reviewer, The 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2019), Long Beach, USA, June 10-15, 2019.
- Program Committee, The 7th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2019), New Orleans, USA, May 06-09, 2019.
- Program Committee, The 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2019), Macau, China, April 14-17, 2019.
- Program Committee, The 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, January 27 - February 1, 2019.
- Program Committee, The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2018), Seattle, USA, December 10-13, 2018.
- Reviewer (Top reviewer, top 30%), Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2018, Montreal, Canada, December 3-8, 2018.
- Program Committee, The 10th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2018), Beijing, China, November 14-16, 2018.
- Program Committee, The 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, July 10-15, 2018.
- Program Committee, The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, July 13-19, 2018.
- Reviewer, The 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2018), Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 30 - May 3, 2018.
- Technical Program Committee, The 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2018), Melbourne, Australia, June 3-6, 2018.
- Program Committee, The 16th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2018), Yokohama, Japan, January 15-17, 2018.
- Program Committee, The 31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017), Long Beach, CA, USA, December 4-9, 2017.
- Program Committee, The 34th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2017), Sydney, Australia, August 6-11, 2017.
- Program Committee, The 9th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2017), Seoul, Korea, November 15 - 17, 2017.
- Program Committee, The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2017), Jeju, South Korea, May 23-26, 2017.
- Co-Organizer, The 6th Charles Warren Workshop 2016, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, August 24-26, 2016.
- Program Committee, The 8th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2016), Hamilton, New Zealand, November 16-18 2016.
- Program Committee, The 20th Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2016), Auckland, New Zealand, Apr 19-22, 2016.
- Program Committee, The 7th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2015), Hong Kong, Nov 20-22, 2015.
- Reviewer, The Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2014) Montréal CANADA, December 8-13, 2015.
- Program Committee, The 6th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2014), Nha Trang, Vietnam, Nov 26-28, 2014.
- Program Committee, SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM14), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Apr 24-26, 2014.
- Program Committee, The 28th Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Matsuyama, Japan, May 12-15, 2014.
- Organizer, 2013 International Workshop on Machine Learning and Applications to Biology (MLAB Sapporo 2013), Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, August 5-6, 2013.
- Program Committee, SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM13), Austin, Texas, USA, May 2 – May 4, 2013.
- Program Committee, The 27th Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Toyama, Japan, June 4-7, 2013.
- Organizer, 2012 Sapporo Workshop on Machine Learning and Applications to Biology (MLAB Sapporo 2012), Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, August 6-7, 2012.
- Local Organizing Committee, ICR Symposium to Celebrate the Bioinformatics Center's 10 Year Anniversary, Uji, Kyoto, Japan, August 29, 2011.