Makoto P. Kato

I’m an associate professor in University of Tsukuba, Japan. My research interests include Information Retrieval, Web Mining, and Machine Learning.

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Associate Professor: Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba

Apr 2019 - : Associate Professor (Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba)
Oct 2018 - : PRESTO Research Fellow (Japan Science and Technology Agency)
Aug 2017 - Mar 2019: Senior Lecturer (Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kyoto University)
Oct 2012 – Jul 2017: Assistant Professor (Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
Jun 2011 – Sep 2011: Microsoft Research Internship (under supervision by Dr. Susan Dumais in CLUES group)
Dec 2010 – Feb 2011: Microsoft Research Asia Internship (under supervision by Dr. Tetsuya Sakai in WSM group)
May 2010 – Oct 2010: Microsoft Research Asia Internship (under supervision by Dr. Tetsuya Sakai in WIT group)
Apr 2010 – Sep 2012: JSPS Research Fellow

Oct 2009 – Sep 2012: Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University (PhD of Informatics)
Apr 2008 – Sep 2009: Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University (Master of Informatics)
Apr 2004 – Mar 2008: Department of Information Science, Kyoto University (Bachelor of Engineering)

ACM Multimedia 2018 Best Paper Award (Bei Liu, Jianlong Fu, Makoto P. Kato, and Masatoshi Yoshikawa: Beyond Narrative Description: Generating Poetry from Images by Multi-Adversarial Training)
WISE 2008 Kambayashi Best Paper Award (Makoto Kato, Hiroaki Ohshima, Satoshi Oyama, and Katsumi Tanaka: Can Social Tagging Improve Web Image Search?)