Members (as of March 2025)
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Katsumi Inoue
(Professor) |
National Institute of Informatics (2004.03-2025.03) / The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (2005.04-2025.03) / Tokyo Institute of Technology (Visiting Professor, 2021.04-2025.03) (Specially Appointed Professor, 2015.04-2021.03) / The University of Electro-Communications (Collaborative Professor, since 2024.04) |
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Junko Inose
(Secretary) |
National Institute of Informatics (2022.12-2025.03) |
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Akihiro Takemura
(Project Researcher) |
National Institute of Informatics (since 2022.10) / The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (2019.10-2022.03) |
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Tuan Nguyen Quoc
(Project Researcher) |
National Institute of Informatics (2022.10-2025.03) / The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (2019.10-2022.09) |
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Taisuke Sato
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National Institute of Informatics
(Project Professor, 2020.10-2024.03) (Visiting Professor, 2012.04-2020.09) (Coordinate Professor, 2008.04-2012.03) |
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Fanqing Xu
(Doctoral Student) |
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (2021.10-2025.03) |
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Koji Watanabe
(5-Year Doctoral Student) |
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (2021.04-2025.03) |
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Takeru Isobe
(5-Year Doctoral Student) |
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (since 2023.04) / |
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Sota Moriyama (Master Student) |
School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2023.04-2025.03) |
Guest Researchers
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Morgan Magnin (Professor, École Centrale de Nantes, France) |
Visiting Professor, National Institute of Informatics (2017.09-2025.03) (Visiting Associate Professor, 2015.04-2017.09) Invitation Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2014.06-2015.03) |
Former Researchers
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Meghyn Bienvenu (LaBRI - CNRS / Université de Bordeaux, France) |
Directrice de Recherche, Japanese-French Laboratory of Informatics, CNRS (2023.09-2024.10) |
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Alex Spies (Imperial College London, UK) |
Pre/Post-Doctoral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2023.08-2024.05) |
| Mitsuhiro Odaka |
Dual PhD degree, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI & École Centrale de Nantes (2024.03) Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2021.04-2024.03) |
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Kotaro Okazaki |
PhD, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (2023.09) |
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Chiaki Sakama
(Wakayama University) |
Visiting Professor (2017.04-2023.03) |
| Yin Jun Phua |
Master Degree, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2019.03) Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2021.04-2022.03) PhD, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (2022.03) He moved to Tokyo Institute of Technology (2022.04). |
| Guillaume Lorthioir |
PhD, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (2021.09) He moved to Joint Robotics Laboratory, AIST (2022.03). |
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Florian Richoux (Université de Nantes, France) |
Associate Professor, Japanese-French Laboratory of Informatics, CNRS
(2018.09-2020.08) He moved to Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST (2020.09). |
| Maxime Clement |
PhD, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (2017.09) He became a project researcher at National Institute of Informatics (2017.10), then moved to Ascent Robotics Inc. (2019.04). |
| Sophie Tourret |
Researcher by Special Appointment, National Institute of Informatics (2016.04-2017.09) She moved to Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany (2017.10). |
| Nicolas Schwind |
Researcher by Special Appointment, National Institute of Informatics (2012.04-2014.03) Assistant Professor by Special Appointment, Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center (2014.04-2016.03) He moved to Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST (2016.04). |
| Tony Ribeiro |
PhD, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (2015.09) He moved to École Centrale de Nantes, IRCCyN (now LS2N), France (2015.10). |
| Suguru Ueda |
Assistant Professor by Special Appointment, National Institute of Informatics (2014.04-2015.03) He moved to Kyushu University (2015.04). |
| Tenda Okimoto |
Assistant Professor by Special Appointment, Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center (2012.08-2014.03) He moved to Kobe University (2014.04). |
| Hei Chan |
Assistant Professor by Special Appointment, Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center (2012.05-2014.03) He moved to Institute of Statistical Mathematics (2014.04). |
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Andrei Doncescu
(LAAS-CNRS, France) |
Invitation Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2006.05-2007.03) Visiting Associate Professor at NII (2010.04-2014.03) |
| Tomoya Tanjo |
Researcher by Special Appointment, Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center (2012.04-2013.03) He moved to Institute of Statistical Mathematics (2013.04). |
| Gauvain Bourgne |
Visiting Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2009.04-2010.03) Researcher by Special Appointment, National Institute of Informatics (2010.04-2012.03) He moved to Université d'Artois (2012.03), then moved to LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne Université), France (2012.09). |
| Takehide Soh |
PhD, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (2011.09) Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2010.04-2011.09) Researcher by Special Appointment, Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center (2011.10-2012.03) He moved to Kobe University (2012.04). |
| Lena Wiese |
Postdoc, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst /
National Institute of Informatics (2010.10-2011.08) She moved to Universität Hildesheim (2011.09), then moved to Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2012.11). |
| Yoshitaka Yamamoto |
PhD, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (2010.09) He moved to University of Yamanashi (2009.04), then moved to Shizuoka University (2019.03). |
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Oliver Ray
(University of Bristol, UK) |
Visiting Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2007.02-05) |
Intern/Exchange/Research Students
| Zhiliang Xiang | Cardiff University, UK | 2024.09-2025.03 |
| Elisabetta Gentili | University of Ferrara, Italy | 2024.09-2025.03 |
| Madeleine Eyraud | Centrale Lille / CRIStAL, CNRS, France | 2024.09-2025.02 |
| Mingyue Liu | Durham University, UK / University of Tokyo, Japan | 2024.04-12 |
| Nelson Higuera | Technische Universität Wien, Austria | 2024.04-09 |
| Federico Leuze | Aalto University, Finland | 2024.04-09, 2023.10-2024.02 |
| Andreas Brännström | Umeå University, Sweden | 2024.08 |
| Robin Jean | Université de Bordeaux / LaBRI - CNRS, France | 2024.02-08 |
| Yvon Awuklu | Université de Bordeaux / LaBRI - CNRS, France | 2024.02-07 |
| Kexin Gu Baugh | Imperial College London, UK | 2024.01-05 |
| Vincent Perreault | Polytechnique Montréal, Canada | 2024.01-05 |
| Pierre Lafourcade | Université de Bordeaux / LaBRI - CNRS, France | 2024.01-2024.03 |
| Rolf Morel | Universtity of Oxford, UK | 2023.01-2023.03 |
| Céline Hocquette | Imperial College London, UK | 2020.03-04 |
| Cyril Reymond | Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France | 2020.03-08 |
| Fanqing Xu | University of Southern California, USA | 2020.01-04 |
| Kun Gao | Peking University, China | 2019.09-2020.03 |
| Gary Smith | University of Edinburgh, UK | 2019.03-06 |
| Samuel Buchet | École Centrale de Nantes / LS2N, France | 2019.02-08 |
| Hugo Chary | Grenoble INP Ensimag, France | 2019.02-08 |
| Jose María Barambones-Ramírez | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain | 2019.01-07 |
| Valerii Praid | Universität Potsdam, Germany | 2018.10-2019.04 |
| Nguyen Quoc Tuan | Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam | 2018.10-2019.01 |
| Sheng Yan | University of Science and Technology of China, China | 2018.07 |
| Guillaume Lorthioir | Sorbonne Université, France | 2018.02-08 |
| Teemu Rintala | Aalto University, Finland | 2018.02-07 |
| Nan Jiang | RWTH Aachen University, Germany | 2018.02-07 |
| Xinwei Chai | École Centrale de Nantes / LS2N, France | 2018.02-05 |
| Bojana Kodric | Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science / Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany | 2017.12-2018.05 |
| Benjamin Wu | Imperial College London, UK | 2017.11-2018.04 |
| Tobias Kaminski | Technische Universität Wien, Austria | 2017.09-2018.01 |
| Nguyen Dinh Hien | Ho Chi Minh City University of Information Technology, Vietnam | 2017.03-09 |
| Alexis Robbes | Université de Nantes, France | 2017.02-08 |
| Abderrahmane Chaabani | Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France | 2017.02-08 |
| Mathias Kaas-Olsen | Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark | 2016.09-2017.02 |
| Huynh Thanh Trung | Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam | 2016.09-2017.03 |
| Wulfrano Arturo Luna Ramírez | University of Essex, UK | 2016.09-12 |
| Théo Le Calvar | Université d'Angers, France | 2016.03-08 |
| Enguerrand Gentet | Université Paris-Saclay (Paris-Sud), France | 2016.02-08 |
| Emir Demirović | Technische Universität Wien, Austria | 2016.02-06 |
| Mohammed Alshamrani | McGill University, Canada | 2016.02-07 |
| Daniel Grigat | University College London, UK | 2016.01-03 |
| Adrien Rougny | LRI, Université Paris-Sud 11, France INRIA Saclay, France |
2015.07-09 2013.02-08 |
| David Martínez Martínez | Institut de Robótica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, Spain | 2015.02-08 |
| Emna Ben Abdallah | École Centrale de Nantes / IRCCyN, France | 2015.02-04 |
| Jacopo Panerati | École Polytechnique de Montreal, QC, Canada | 2015.01-06 |
| Heng Liu | Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada | 2015.01-04 |
| Andrew Cropper | Imperial College London, UK | 2014.10-2015.01 |
| Alexander Andreychenko | Saarland University, Germany | 2014.09-2015.01 |
| Damien Bouchabou | Université Paul Sabatier, France | 2014.03-08 |
| Maxime Wack | Grenoble INP ESISAR, France | 2014.02-08 |
| Stefan Zeltner | University of Southern California, USA | 2014.01-04 |
| Yoshihiro Maruyama | University of Oxford, UK | 2013.10-12 |
| Marcus Völker | RWTH Aachen University, Germany | 2013.10-2014.03 |
| Pritha Chanana | Indiana University Bloomington, USA | 2013.06-08 |
| Maxime Clement | Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France | 2013.04-09 |
| Alexandre Medi | Université de Nantes, France | 2013.03-08 |
| Alexandre Rocca | Grenoble INP Ensimag, France | 2013.03-08 |
| Earl Bellinger | Indiana University Bloomington, USA | 2013.02-05 |
| Leon Palafox | University of Tokyo, Japan | 2012.07-2013.03 |
| Newfel Messouci | Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France | 2012.06-09 |
| Ben Wright | New Mexico State University, USA | 2012.06 |
| Maxime Folschette | École Centrale de Nantes / IRCCyN, France | 2012.02-05 |
| Tony Ribeiro | Université d'Angers, France | 2012.02-08 |
| Pham Le Thi Anh Thu | Ho Chi Minh City University of Information Technology, Vietnam | 2012.02-08 |
| Teeradaj Racharak | Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand | 2012.01-04 |
| Maheen Bakhtyar | Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand | 2011.06-12 |
| Nam Dang | Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan | 2011.06-09 |
| Johannes Oetsch | Technische Universität Wien, Austria | 2011.02-04 |
| Barthélémy Dworkin | Université Paul Sabatier, France | 2011.03 |
| Domenico Corapi | Imperial College London, UK | 2010.09-11 |
| Grégoire Lejay | Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France | 2010.06-09 |
| Charlotte Viel | Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France | 2010.06-08 |
| James Ray Wagner | McGill University, Canada | 2010.03-06 |
| Matej Holec | Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech | 2010.03-06 |
| Gabriel Synnaeve | TIMC-IMAG, France | 2009.02-06 |
| Petr Buryan | Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech | 2009.03-06 |
Visitors and Invited Researchers
| Tony Ribeiro | École Centrale de Nantes / LS2N, France | 2025.01-03, 2024.10-11, 2024.07-10, 2020.02-08, 2018.06-08, 2018.02-03, 2017.06, 2017.03 |
| Kun Gao | IHPC, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore | 2024.12 |
| Emir Demirović | Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands | 2024.10, 2018.05, 2016.10 |
| Meghyn Bienvenu | LaBRI - CNRS, France | 2023.07-2024.10, 2022.10-11 |
| Daniil Kozhemiachenko | LaBRI - CNRS, France | 2024.01-2024.07 |
| Camilo Sarmiento | LIP6, Sorbonne Université, France | 2023.06 |
| Gauvain Bourgne | LIP6, Sorbonne Université, France | 2023.05-06, 2019.05-06, 2018.03-06, 2015.08-09, 2013.12-2014.01, 2013.08, 2012.07-08, 2008.07-08 |
| Jean-Marie Lagniez | CRIL - CNRS / Université d'Artois, France | 2023.05, 2018.06 |
| Sébastien Konieczny | CRIL - CNRS, France | 2022.08-09, 2018.06, 2017.03-04, 2016.01-02, 2014.01-02 |
| Morgan Magnin | École Centrale de Nantes / LS2N, France | 2020.01-07, 2019.08, 2019.02-03, 2018.03, 2016.07-08, 2016.02-03, 2015.06-08, 2013.03-05, 2013.01 |
| Vaishak Belle | University of Edinburgh / Alan Turing Institute, UK | 2019.07 |
| Esra Erdem | Sabanci University, Turkey | 2019.07, 2013.11 |
| Stefano Teso | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium | 2019.03 |
| Tobias Kaminski | Technische Universität Wien, Austria | 2019.01-02 |
| Pierre Marquis | CRIL - CNRS / Université d'Artois, France | 2018.06, 2017.03-04, 2014.01-02 |
| Théo Le Calvar | Université d'Angers, France | 2018.03 |
| Zied Bouraoui | CRIL - CNRS / Université d'Artois, France | 2017.12 |
| Andrew Cropper | Imperial College London, UK | 2017.04-07, 2015.08-09 |
| David Toman | University of Waterloo, Canada | 2016.11 |
| Benoit Garnier | Thales Alenia Space, France | 2016.08 |
| Sophie Tourret | LIG, Université Joseph Fourier, France | 2016.01 |
| Gerson Zaverucha | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 2015.08 |
| Fabrizio Riguzzi | Università di Ferrara, Italy | 2015.08 |
| Helmut Veith | Technische Universität Wien, Austria | 2015.07 |
| Avraham Melkman | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel | 2015.03 |
| Maxime Folschette | École Centrale de Nantes / IRCCyN, France | 2014.10-11 |
| Andrei Doncescu | LAAS-CNRS, France | 2014.02-03, 2013.02-03, 2012.02-03, 2011.11, 2010.03, 2009.03-05 |
| Luc De Raedt | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium | 2014.01 |
| Ádamo Lima de Santana | UFPA - Federal University of Pará, Brazil | 2013.06 |
| Dalal Alrajeh | Imperial College London, UK | 2012.12 |
| Torsten Schaub | Universität Potsdam, Germany | 2012.10 2011.11 |
| Nicolas Stefanovitch | Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France | 2012.07-08 |
| Chitta Baral | Arizona State University, USA | 2012.05 |
| Luis Fariñas del Cerro | IRIT, France | 2011.12 |
| Nicolas Schwind | CRIL, Université d'Artois, France | 2012.01, 2011.12 |
| Laurent Simon | LRI, Université Paris-Sud 11, France | 2011.11 |
| Oliver Ray | University of Bristol, UK | 2011.11, 2009.11-12, 2008.10-11, 2007.09-10 |
| Stephen Muggleton | Imperial College London, UK | 2011.11, 2009.02, 2007.02 |
| M. Sriram Iyengar | University of Texas, US | 2011.11 |
| Patrick Grüneberg | Technische Universität Berlin, Germany | 2011.06 |
| Rina Dechter | University of California, Irvine, USA | 2010.03 |
| Hiroaki Watanabe | Imperial College London, UK | 2010.02, 2009.02, 2008.02, 2007.02 |
| Dianhuan Lin | Imperial College London, UK | 2010.01 |
| Narendra Jussien | Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France | 2009.12 |
| Randy Goebel | University of Alberta, Canada | 2009.09 |
| Thomas Eiter | Technische Universität Wien, Austria | 2009.06 |
| Alexander Bochman | Holon Institute of Technology, Israel | 2009.06 |
| Ross King | University of Wales, UK | 2008.11 |
| Ateet Bhalla | Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal | 2008.10-11 |
| Tran Cao Son | New Mexico State University, USA | 2008.07 |
| Martin Camidana | University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg | 2007.04 |
| Gilles Richard | IRIT, France | 2006.11 |
Other Alumni
| Masayuki Otani | Master Student (Tokyo Tech) | 2022.04-2024.03 |
| Ryota Yakushiji | Master Student (Tokyo Tech) | 2021.04-2023.03 |
| Asaki Kamada | Secretary | 2021.04-2022.11 |
| Zhenheng Xu | Master Student (Tokyo Tech) | 2020.04-2022.03 |
| Aya Gotoda | Secretary | 2019.05-2021.03 |
| Tomomi Mitsudera | Secretary (Tokyo Tech) | 2015.04-2021.03 |
| Yutaro Totsuka | Bachelor/Master Student (Tokyo Tech) | 2018.04-2021.03 |
| Tianyu Chen | Master Student (Tokyo Tech) | 2019.04-2021.03 |
| Seiya Nakata | Undergraduate Student (Tokyo Tech) | 2018.04-2021.03 |
| Yu Tomita | Doctoral Student (SOKENDAI) | 2018.08-2020.09 |
| Shota Katsumata | Bachelor/Master Student (Tokyo Tech) | 2017.04-2020.03 |
| Hikaru Ikeda | Master Student (Tokyo Tech) | 2018.04-2020.03 |
| Karthik Rampalli | Bachelor Student (Tokyo Tech) | 2019.04-2020.03 |
| Yuko Kitamura | Secretary | 2018.04-2019.04 |
| Junya Yamaguchi | Bachelor/Master Student (Tokyo Tech) | 2016.04-2019.03 |
| Jun-ichi Sakuma | Master Student (Tokyo Tech) | 2017.04-2019.03 |
| Kensuke Kikuchi | Master Student (Tokyo Tech) | 2017.04-2019.03 |
| Yoko Sekino | Secretary | 2017.04-2018.03 |
| Hitomi Komata | Master Student (Tokyo Tech) | 2016.04-2018.03 |
| Sho Hatazaki | Bachelor Student (Tokyo Tech) | 2017.04-2018.03 |
| Kimiko Kato | Secretary | 2012.05-2017.03 |
| Hiroko Ichikawa | Technical Staff | 2016.07-09 |
| Tomoko Nishino | Secretary | 2010.02-2012.05 |
| Hiroko Ozaki | Secretary | 2009.11-2010.01 |
| Michi Tanaka | Secretary | 2009.04-10 |
| Miki Ohhori | Secretary | 2007.08-2009.03 |
| Eiji Iwauchi | Special Joint Researcher (Kobe University) | 2004.04-2005.03 |
| Takayuki Okamoto | Special Joint Researcher (Kobe University) | 2004.04-2005.03 |
| Yoshitaka Yamamoto | Special Joint Researcher (Kobe University) | 2004.04-2005.03 |