I’m a PhD student in Kyoto University, Japan. My research interests include IR, Web mining, and ML.

Affiliation

• Ph.D candidate
  Depertment of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
  Supervisor: Prof. Katsumi Tanaka
• JSPS Research Fellow

Employment

• June 2011 – September 2011
  Microsoft Research Internship (under supervision by Dr. Susan Dumais in CLUES group)
• December 2010 – February 2011
  Microsoft Research Asia Internship (under supervision by Dr. Tetsuya Sakai in WSM group)
• May 2010 – October 2010
  Microsoft Research Asia Internship (under supervision by Dr. Tetsuya Sakai in WIT group)
• April 2010 – March 2012
  JSPS Research Fellow

Education

• October 2009 -
  Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan (PhD candidate)
• April 2008 – September 2009
  Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan (Master of Informatics)
• April 2004 – March 2008
  Department of Information Science, Kyoto University, Japan (Bachelor of Engineering)

Awards

• WISE 2008 Kambayashi Best Paper Award
  (Makoto Kato, Hiroaki Ohshima, Satoshi Oyama and Katsumi Tanaka: Can Social Tagging Improve Web Image Search?)

Contact

• Address: Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
• Tel: +81-75-753-5702
• E-mail: kato at-mark dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp