Hidetoshi Shimodaira
Professor at Kyoto University
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
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Top SchoolHidetoshi Shimodaira is a professor of statistics and machine learning with over two decades of academic and research experience spanning Kyoto University, RIKEN, Osaka University, and Tokyo Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics from The University of Tokyo and has blended deep theoretical work with applied statistical science across genetics, AI, and systems science. As former team leader of the Mathematical Statistics Team at RIKEN AIP, he has steered interdisciplinary research that connects mathematical foundations to practical machine learning problems. His career includes international research stints at Stanford and the University of Washington, reflecting a long-standing engagement with global research communities. Known for rigor and breadth, he often brings insights from mathematical engineering into modern inference and model evaluation challenges. Based in Kyoto, he combines academic leadership with hands-on mentorship of the next generation of statisticians and ML researchers.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
English, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
hierarchical-clustering8
hierarchical8
r-package7
tsne7
clustering6
bootstrap3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shimo-lab/scaleboot
Sep 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 4 tags in 2 years 2 months
shimosan/diffusers
Apr 2023 - Nov 2023
🤗 Diffusers: State-of-the-art diffusion models for image and audio generation in PyTorch
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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