Short CV
Yuichi Tanaka received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2003, 2005, and 2007, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, from 2007 to 2008, and supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). From 2006 to 2008, he was also a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego. From 2008 to 2012, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan. From 2012 to 2022, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan. Since 2022, Dr. Tanaka has been a Professor in Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. Currently, he has a cross appointment as a PRESTO Researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency. His current research interests are in the field of high-dimensional signal processing and machine learning which includes: graph signal processing, geometric deep learning, sensor networks, image/video processing in extreme situations, biomedical signal processing, and remote sensing.
Dr. Tanaka currently serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, and an area editor for the IEICE Transactions on fundamentals. He is an elected member of the APSIPA SIPTM (Signal and Information Processing Theory and Methods) and IVM (Image, Video and Multimedia) Technical Committees. He also served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2016 to 2020 and the IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals from 2013 to 2017. He was a recipient of the Yasujiro Niwa Outstanding Paper Award in 2010, the TELECOM System Technology Award in 2011, and Ando Incentive Prize for the Study of Electronics in 2015. He also received IEEE Signal Processing Society Japan Best Paper Award in 2016 and Best Paper Awards in APSIPA ASC 2014 and 2015.
Academic Backgrounds
Apr. 1999-Mar. 2003: Dept. of Electronics & Electrical Engineering, Keio Univ. (B.E.)
Apr. 2003-Mar. 2005: School of Integrated Design Engineering, Keio Univ. (M.E.)
Apr. 2005-Sep. 2007: School of Integrated Design Engineering, Keio Univ. (Ph.D. in Engineering)
Oct. 2007-Nov. 2008: Post-doc at Multimedia Signal Processing Group, EEE Dept., Keio Univ.
Jul. 2006-Dec. 2006, Nov. 2007-May 2008: Post-doc at Video Processing Group (managed by Prof. T. Q. Nguyen) in the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego.
Work Experience
Apr. 2005-Mar. 2007: Research Assistant of COE (Center Of Excellence) at Keio Univ.
Aug. 2007-Nov. 2008: Research Assistant of Global COE at Keio Univ.
Apr. 2007-Nov. 2008: Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Dec. 2008-Mar. 2012: Assistant Professor at Utsunomiya Univ.
Apr. 2012-Sep. 2022: Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Oct. 2022-: Professor at Osaka University
Dec. 2016-present: PRESTO Researcher at Japan Science and Technology Agency
Teaching Experience
FY2020: Linear Systems
FY2013-present: Multidimensional and Multimedia Signal Processing
FY2013-2019: Signal Processing
FY2009-2012: Information Science Experiment I
FY2009-2012: Programming Exercise II and III
FY2007: Applied Analysis
Associate Editor Experience
2022-: IEEE Signal Processing Letters
2016-2020: IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing
2013-2016: IEICE Trans. on Fundamentals
2016: Guest Associate Editor of IEICE Trans. on Fundamentals for the Special Issue on Recent Advances in Image Sampling and Reconstruction
2015: Guest Associate Editor of IEICE Trans. on Fundamentals for the Special Issue on Signal Processing for Sensing and Diagnosis
2009-2012: IIEEJ
Reviewer experiences
IEEE
Proceedings of the IEEE
Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
Trans. on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Trans. on Image Processing
Trans. on Multimedia
Trans. on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Trans. on Signal and Information Processing over Networks
Trans. on Signal Processing (Appreciated Reviewer, 2008)
Signal Processing Letters
Signal Processing Magazine
IEICE
Trans. on Fundamentals
Trans. on Communications
Trans. on Information and Systems
Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing
Digital Signal Processing
Image and Vision Computing
Information Fusion
Journal of Machine Learning Research
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
Signal Processing
Signal Processing: Image Communication
Optical Review
Many international conferences (including ICASSP, ICIP (Top Reviewer Recognition (top 3% of reviewers) for ICIP 2020), and ISCAS)
Special Session Organizer
ICIP 2019, Graph Spectral Processing of 3D Point Cloud Data, co-organizing with Prof. Gene Cheung and Prof. Antonio Ortega
APSIPA ASC 2018, Graph Signal Processing: Theory and Applications, co-organizing with Prof. Gene Cheung
APSIPA ASC 2016, Graph Signal Processing for Advanced Imaging Problems, co-organizing with Prof. Gene Cheung
APSIPA ASC 2012, Recent Advances in High Fidelity Digital Imaging, co-organizing with Prof. Masahiro Okuda
Invited Talks and Tutorials
Graph Spectral Image Processing, at IEEE ICIP 2020, Virtual, Oct. 2020 (with Prof. Gene Cheung).
Graph Signal Processing: From Theory to Applications, at MIRU 2019, Osaka, Japan, Jul. 2019.
Graph Signal Processing: Sampling of Irregular-Structured Data, at India-Japan Joint Workshop on Signal Processing, Networks, and Control, Mumbai, India, Sep. 2018.
Graph Signal Processing and Its Applications, at IEICE 2018 General Conference, Tokyo, Japan, Mar. 2018.
Signal Processing on Graphs: Fundamental Theory and Recent Results, at SITA 2017, Niigata, Japan, Nov. 2017.
Graph Signal Processing: Signal and Information Processing over Networks, at IEICE Society Conference 2017, Tokyo, Japan, Sep. 2017.
Graph Signal Processing: Recent Progress and Applications, at ITC-CSCC 2017, Busan, Korea, Jul. 2017.
Graph Wavelets and Filter Banks: Designs in Graph Spectral Domain, at Graph Signal Processing Workshop 2017, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2017.
Graph Signal Processing: Towards Sparse Representations of "Big" Spatio-Temporal Data, at 28th RAMP Symposium, Niigata, Japan, Oct. 2016.
Fundamentals of Graph Signal Processing, at Acoustical Society of Japan 2016 Autumn Meeting, Toyama, Japan, Sep. 2016.
Graph Signal Processing: Fundamentals and Applications, at SCI'16, Kyoto, Japan, May 2016.
Graph Signal Processing: Extracting information from signals on networks, at 7th International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Oct. 2015.
Graph Signal Processing: Complex and Large-Scale Information Processing, at 28th Workshop on Circuits and Systems, Hyogo, Japan, Aug. 2015.
Signal Processing on Graphs: Recent Results, Challenges and Applications, at PCSJ/IMPS 2014, Shizuoka, Japan, Nov. 2014 (with Prof. Antonio Ortega). slide
Recent Advances on Signal Processing on Graphs, at 28th Signal Processing Symposium, Yamaguchi, Japan, Nov. 2013.
Awards
2016: IEEE Signal Processing Society Japan Best Paper Award (for "M-channel oversampled graph filter banks," IEEE TSP, co-authored with A. Sakiyama)
2015: APSIPA ASC 2015 Best Paper Award (for "Subspace-constrained multilinear discriminant analysis for ERP-based brain computer interface classification," co-authored with H. Higashi, T. Rutkowski, and T. Tanaka)
2015: Ando Incentive Prize for the Study of Electronics
2014: APSIPA ASC 2014 Best Paper Award (for "Smoothing of spatial filter by graph Fourier transform for EEG signals" co-authored with H. Higashi and T. Tanaka)
2011: TELECOM System Technology Award from The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation
2010: Yasujiro Niwa Outstanding Paper Award (for "Multiresolution image representation using combined 2-D and 1-D directional filter banks," IEEE TIP, co-authored with M. Ikehara and T. Q. Nguyen)
Grants and Funds
2020-2023: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PI)
2020-2023: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Co-Investigator, PI: Prof. Toshihisa Tanaka)
2019-2023: PRESTO Research Area on "Future Led by IoT" from Japan Science and Technology Agency (PI)
2019-2022: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Co-Investigator, PI: Prof. Hiroshi Ishida)
2019-2021: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PI)
2018-2021: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Co-Investigator, PI: Prof. Satsuki Watanabe)
2016-2020: PRESTO Research Area on "Fundamental Information Technologies Toward Innovative Social System Design" from Japan Science and Technology Agency (PI)
2016-2019: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PI)
2014-2017: Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme (SCOPE) from MIC (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) (PI)
2012-2016: Grant for Tenure-Track Promotion Program from MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology in Japan): Selected as an outstanding researcher
2012-2015: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PI)
2011-2014: Research Grant from SCAT (Support Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology Research, Foundation) (PI)
2011-2012: Research Grant from Kayamori Foundation of Informational Science Advancement (PI)
2010-2012: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PI)
2010-2012: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (Co-Investigator, PI: Prof. Shigeo Kato)
2010-2012: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (Co-Investigator, PI: Assoc. Prof. Madoka Hasegawa)
2010: Research Grant from The Nakajima Foundation (PI)
2010: Research Grant from The Circle for the promotion of science and Engineering (PI)
2010: Grant for International Conference from Yazaki Foundation
2009-2010: Research Grant from Casio Science Promotion Foundation (PI)
2009: Utsunomiya University Grant for Exploratory Research (PI)
2009: Grant for International Conference from NEC C&C Foundation
2007-2008: Grants-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
2006, 2009: Grant for International Conference from The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation
Fellowships and Scholarships
2006: Scholarship Recipient of Fujiwara Scholarship Foundation
Apr. 2005- Mar. 2007: Scholarship Recipient of TEPCO Research Foundation
Apr. 2003- Mar. 2007: Scholarship Recipient of Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO)