Yoshinobu Kawahara
Professor University of Tokyo
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Yoshinobu Kawahara is a distinguished academic with a strong background in engineering, having earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2003, 2005, and 2008, respectively. He currently holds a position as a Professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, while also leading the Structured Learning Team at RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN AIP). Previously, he has been a Visiting Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Inference in Tübingen and a Visiting Professor at the MELODI Lab, under the direction of Prof. J.A. Bilmes, at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Kawahara's research focuses on statistical machine learning and its applications in various scientific and engineering disciplines.