Ryota Tomioka

About

Ryota Tomioka is a Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge since 2015. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo in 2008. During his Ph.D. study, he was a visiting research associate at the Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany. After a PostDoc position at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, he joined the department of Mathematical Informatics, the University of Tokyo as an assistant professor in 2009. Before joining Microsoft, he spent two years at the Toyota Institute of Technology at Chicago, a philanthropically endowed academic institute located in the campus of the University of Chicago. His research lies in the intersection of machine learning, optimization, and neural networks.

In the past, I have worked on optimization (opens in new tab), regularization (opens in new tab), distributed training of neural networks (opens in new tab), theory of neural networks (opens in new tab), and application of machine learning to brain-computer interface (opens in new tab).

After joining MSR, I have been fortunate to work with many talented students:

• Vitaly Kurin (opens in new tab) (Oxford)
• Hisham Husain (opens in new tab) (ANU) jointly with Kamil Ciosek
• Yuu Jinnai (opens in new tab) (Brown U)
• Naums Mogers (opens in new tab) (Edinburgh)
• Justas Dauparas (opens in new tab) (Cambridge -> U Washington) jointly with Katja Hofmann (opens in new tab)
• Diane Bouchacourt (opens in new tab) (Oxford -> Facebook) jointly with Sebastian Nowozin (opens in new tab)
• Blake Woodworth (opens in new tab) (TTIC)
• Mario Paulo Drumond Lages De Oliveira (opens in new tab) (EPFL)
• Hao Fang (opens in new tab) (U Washington -> Semantic Machines) jointly with Yoram Bachrach
• Kirthevasan Kandasamy (opens in new tab) (CMU -> UC Berkeley) jointly with Yoram Bachrach
• Jerry Li (opens in new tab) (MIT -> MSR) jointly with Dan Alistarh (opens in new tab)
• Liwen Zhang (opens in new tab) (University of Chicago -> Facebook)

My personal webpage can be found here (opens in new tab).