Scholar
Takuya Akiba
Google Scholar ID: WW-22F8AAAAJ
Sakana AI
Citations & Impact
Citations
12,853
H-index
26
i10-index
29
Publications
20
Co-authors
11
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Co-authored papers published at top-tier academic conferences such as NeurIPS, CVPR, KDD, etc.
- Creator of OSS ML software packages such as Optuna and ChainerMN
- Kaggle Grandmaster
- Won a bronze medal at ACM ICPC World Finals 2012 and 9th place at Google Code Jam 2010
- Published papers on algorithms and data structures at SIGMOD, CIKM, WWW, AAAI, KDD, ICDM
- Co-authored a book on algorithms for competitive programmers, translated and published in Korea, China, and Taiwan
Research Experience
- Current position: Research Scientist at Sakana AI, working on the research and development of a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence (December 2023 - Present)
- Senior Research Scientist at Stability AI, involved in the construction of open foundation models (June 2023 - November 2023)
- VP of ML Infrastructure at Preferred Networks, Inc., responsible for the whole ML infrastructure field (May 2018 - March 2022)
- Researcher at Preferred Networks, Inc., engaged in various activities related to deep learning (July 2016 - July 2018)
- Assistant Professor at National Institute of Informatics, led research on practical data structures and algorithms for the analysis of large-scale graph data (April 2015 - June 2016)
Education
- PhD in Computer Science from The University of Tokyo (2015, received Dean's award; finished in 2 years)
- M.S. in Computer Science from The University of Tokyo (2013, received Dean's award)
- BSc in Artificial Intelligence from The University of Tokyo (2011)
Background
- A deep learning enthusiast with a background in research, engineering, and management. My work blends these areas to drive AI innovation.
Miscellany
- Interests include Deep Learning, High Performance Computing, Python, Rust, C/C++
