Ryohei Nakano

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Current Position: Professor Department of Computer Science Chubu University Address: 1200 Matsumoto-cho, Kasugai, 487-8501 Japan email: nakano@cs.chubu.ac.jp Hobbies: playing shogi (Japanese chess, three-dan qualified) listening to guitar music having English tea playing table tennis walking in a park

Awards:

• The 12th Telecommunication Advancement Foundation Award
  (Telecom. System Technology Prize) in 1997.
  
• Paper Award of Information Processing Society of Japan in 1997.
  
• Paper Award of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence in 1999.
  
• Paper Award of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers in 2000.
  

Research Interests: Neural Information Processing and Machine Learning Learning Algorithms: multi-layer perceptron (MLP) with common weights extensions of the EM algorithm singular region and search space analysis Data Mining and Structure Mining: multivariate polynomial regression L-system grammar induction context-free grammar induction Reinforcement Learning and Search: learning classifier systems (LCS) computer Shogi using machine learning Publications refereed journal papers refereed international conference papers books, book chapters, and R&D papers.

Previous Professorship

Part-time Lecturer

• Neural and Evolutionary Computation, Mie University in 1993.
  
• Neural and Evolutionary Computation, Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1993.
  
• Basic Problems of Artificial Intelligence, Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1994.
  
• Adaptive Systems, Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1995.
  
• Neural Computation, Kyoto University in 1996.
  
• Adaptive Systems, Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1996.
  
• Theory of Adaptive Systems, Kyoto University in 1997.
  
• Adaptive Computation, Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1997.
  
• Theory of Adaptive Systems, Kyoto University in 1998.
  
• Adaptive Computation, Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1998.
  
• Theory of Neural Computation, Kyoto University in 1999.
  
• Theory on Language Analysis and Processing, Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1999.
  
• Theory of Neural Computation, Kyoto University in 2000.
  

Full Professor (1999-2008)
Graduate School of Engineering
Nagoya Institute of Technology

Joint Research with Foreign Researchers

• Prof. S.I. Gallant (Northeastern Univ.)
  his visit: Oct.-Dec. 1989
  joint research topic: Connectionist expert systems
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• Dr. Y. Davidor (Weizmann Institute)
  his visit: Oct.-Dec. 1992
  joint research topic: Statistical model of genetic algorithms
  
• Prof. B.E. Rosen (Univ. of Texas, Austin)
  his visit: June-Aug. 1993
  joint research topic: Job shop scheduling using SA
  
• Prof. P. Esteves (Univ. of Chile)
  his visit: Apr.-June 1995
  joint research topic: Modular neural networks
  
• Prof. G.E. Hinton (Univ. of Toronto)
  his visit: Apr. 1997
  joint research topic: Bayesian networks
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• Prof. J.A. Meyer (Ecole Normale Superieure)
  his visit: May 1997
  joint research topic: Computational model of adaptive behavior
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