- Senior Technical Staff Member
- IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
- 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA [map]
- email:
- tide@us.ibm.com (business)
- ide@ide-research.net (personal)
- CV: full , one-page
I am working on data mining and machine learning as part of AI Science, IBM Research. My ~20 years of research experience covers a variety of topics such as
- Anomaly/change detection/diagnosis from industrial sensor data,
- Trajectory mining,
- Questionnaire data analysis,
- Collaborative/multi-task learning and blockchain,
- Explainability in AI.
Although most of those works may technically fall into the category of applied research, I always enjoy modeling complex real-world business problems from scratch and formalizing them in a solvable form, rather than just “applying” existing methods. I have authored two machine learning textbooks on anomaly detection, which are among the best-selling machine learning books in Japan. Here are some of the keywords from the project I was involved in the past:
- Automotive (IoT technologies, simulation, fleet management, etc.)
- Condition-based monitoring of industrial systems:
- Oil production systems
- Cement production system
- Semiconductor manufacturing tools
- Computer servers
- Coal mines
- etc.
- Healthcare (diabetes data analytics)
- Transportation simulation and optimization
- LCD optical design
- Blockchain and collaborative learning
- Statistical risk analysis in project management
- Power grid optimization
In addition to the broad and deep industry knowledge, I have years’ of people and project management experience both in Japan and the US. I have done much work also in intellectual property management, handling many non-disclosure agreements, technology licence agreements, and service contracts.
Education
- Ph.D. in Physics, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 2000.
- Thesis: “Theoretical Study on Nonlocal Effects in Resonant X-Ray Emission Spectra of Strongly-Correlated Systems”
- Supervisor: Prof. Kotani Akio
- M.Sc. in Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan, 1997.
- B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan, 1993.
Employment
I am a Japanese citizen and a U.S. permanent resident.
- Today-07/12/2016: IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
- Senior Technical Staff Member
- Lead customer engagements and provide the team with technical guidance.
- Play the role of technical evangelist to influence IBM’s technical roadmap based on a broad range of experiences on real business.
- Perform basic and applied research in AI to publish research outcomes in world premier conferences and journals as well as patents.
- Senior Technical Staff Member
- 07/11/2016-09/04/2013: IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (on international assignment from IBM Japan)
- Senior Technical Staff Member (09/2014-07/2016).
- Led a variety of customer engagements to success as the technical leader.
- Developed innovative machine learning methods for industrial sensor data and published six lead-authored papers in the world’s premier conference and journals in AI.
- Manager, Service Delivery & Risk Analytics (09/2013-09/2014).
- Engaged in people, projects, and research strategy management of the team.
- Proposed novel AI-based approaches to IT (information technology) system development.
- Awarded two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards by IBM Corporation for that work.
- Senior Technical Staff Member (09/2014-07/2016).
- 09/03/2013-04/01/2000: IBM Research – Tokyo
- Manager, Analytics & Optimization (09/2010-09/2013).
- Supervised the entire area of AI at IBM Research – Tokyo (except for teams specific to speech and text analytics).
- Successfully established an organizational management model that strikes an optimal balance business contributions and academic reputation.
- Proposed a new AI-driven business strategy and led numerous customer engagements. Major successful projects include the development of an intelligent transportation system in Kenya and a health monitoring system for ocean-going vessels. The latter won the General Manager Award of IBM Japan.
- Senior Researcher (2010-2013), Advisory Researcher (2008-2010), Staff Researcher (2005-2008)
- Led basic and applied research in AI as a technical leader.
- Launched the project of Sensor Data Analytics as a promising area of AI applications.
- Major research achievements include the establishment of a dependency-based anomaly detection method, which was awarded the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award later.
- Researcher (2000-2005)
- Engaged in improving existing IBM products using mathematical science technologies.
- Major contributions include a significant improvement of luminance uniformity of IBM ThinkPad displays and the development anomaly detection solution of computer systems.
- Manager, Analytics & Optimization (09/2010-09/2013).
Honors & Awards
- 2018
- Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, IBM Corporation (for Business and Technical Leadership in IBM Anomaly Analyzer for Correlational Data)
- 2017
- Best Author Award, The Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (For his article titled “Predicting project risks using latent trait model”)
- 2016
- Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, IBM Corporation, (for End-to-end Contract Profitability Analytics for ITS)
- Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, IBM Corporation (for Financial Risk Analytics for Strategic Outsourcing)
- 2015
- Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, IBM Corporation (for Fundamental Contributions to Anomaly Detection)
- 2013
- General Manager Award, IBM Japan (for successful delivery of vessel monitoring system to ClassNK)
- 2007
- Winner, ICDM Data Mining Contest, The 2007 Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
- 2006
- JSAI Annual Conference Award, The 20th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
- 2004
- JSAI Annual Conference Award, The 18th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Executive/Board Membership
- Today-2013: IBM Academy of Technology.
- 2015-2011: Secretary, Machine Learning Activity Group of the Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (JSIAM-ML).
- 2014-2012: Board of Directors, The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.
- 2010-2008: Vice Chair, Technical Committee on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS), IEICE.
Academic Community Services
Government grant reviewer
- Council for the Humanities, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, 2013.
Journal editor
- Associate Editor, Special Section on Advances in Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing for Industry Applications, IEEE Access
- Review Editor, Data Mining and Management, Frontiers in Big Data
- Guest Editorial Manager, Special Section on Information-Based Induction Sciences and Machine Learning, IEICE Transactions on Information & Systems
- Associate Editor, Special Section on Data Mining and Statistical Science, IEICE Transactions on Information & Systems
Senior/advisory committee member
- Senior Program Committee Member, 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-21), 2021.
- Publicity Chair, The 9th IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge (IEEE ICBK 2018), 2018.
- Senior Program Committee Member, 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15), 2015.
- Program Chair, The 12th Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS 2009), 2009.
Technical program committee member
- 2021
- The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21)
- 2021 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2021)
- 2021 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2021)
- 2020
- 2020 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM 2020)
- The 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-20)
- The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20)
- The 12th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2020)
- 2020 International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems (BlockSys 2020)
- 2019
- 2019 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM 2019)
- The 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-19; selected as Distinguished Program Committee Member)
- The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 19)
- The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2019)
- 2019 International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems (BlockSys 2019)
- The 11th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2019)
- The 16th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2019)
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- The IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2016)
- 2015
- The 14th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2015)
- 2013
- 2012
- The 4th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2012)
- 2011
- 2010
- 2009
- JSAI 2009 Conference and Workshops, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
- 2008
- JSAI 2008 Conference and Workshops, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
- The 11th Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS 2008)
- 2007
- The 10th Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS 2007)
Reviewer services
- 2021
- ICML 2021
- 2020
- NeurIPS 2020
- Pattern Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Machine Learning, Frontiers in Big Data
+ Many others…