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Center for Innovative Research and Education in Data Science (CIREDS)
Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kyoto University
302 Konoe-kan, 69 Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8315 Japan.

Profile

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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

• Feb 2023 - present: Program-Specific Professor, Center for Innovative Research and Education in Data Science, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kyoto University
• Feb 2023 - present: Visiting Scientist, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
• Apr 2019 - present: Principal Investigator, Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University
• 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.