Soramichi Akiyama (穐山空道)

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I am an assistant professor at Department of Creative Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan. I finished my bachelors at Kyoto University in 2010 and received a Ph.D. from Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo in 2015. My past work includes achieving greener cloud by improving underlying virtualization techniques and data center networkfor large scale container deployment (see the projects page for the details), and I am currently working on how to execute AI workloads efficiently with as little programmer effort as possible.

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I'm serving as a program co-chair of NVMSA 2018 (29-31 August, 2018 at Hakodate, Japan).
Please save your date and consider submitting! The CFP is available (abstract deadline: April 20).
A keynote speech will be given by Prof. Onur Mutlu from ETH Zurich!

Contact

	Assistant Professor, Department of Creative Informatics, The University of Tokyo
	Buidling "I-REF", 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan

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Education

07/1987	Born in Kyoto, Japan
03/2010	B.Eng., Kyoto University (Supervisor: Prof. Hiroshi G. Okuno)
03/2012	M.Sc., The University of Tokyo (Supervisor: Prof. Shinichi Honiden)
03/2015	Ph.D., The University of Tokyo (Supervisor: Prof. Shinichi Honiden) Thesis: Reducing Energy Consumption of Data Centers by Improving Virtual Machine Live Migration

Working Experience

07/2011 - 08/2011	Intern, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
05/2013 - 08/2013	Intern, Microsoft Research (Redmond, US), mentored by Dr. Gabriel Kliot
04/2013 - 03/2015	Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
04/2015 - 10/2015	Research Engineer, Software Innovation Center, NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone)
11/2015 - 05/2018	Researcher, Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) I was tentatively a post-doc for a month, then worked as a full-time researcher
06/2018 - Today	Assistant Professor, Department of Creative Informatics, The University of Tokyo

Public Services

Organizing Duties
- Program Co-Chair, The 7th IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA 2018)
- Publicity Co-Chair, 37th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2018)
- Publicity Chair (for Asia region), The European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2018)
- Program Committee Member, IEEE 12th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC-2018), Track 8: Operating Systems Platforms for Real-Time Embedded Applications
- Committee Member, SIG-OS, Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), 04/2017 -
External Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC): 2017 (List of Reviewers), 2016 (List of Reviewers), 2015
- IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems: 2018
- IEICE Transactions on Communications: 2018, 2017
- IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA): 2017
- IEEE International Conference on e-Science (eScience): 2017
OSS contributions
- Linux: Tiny fixes to the perf tool
- Chainer (neural network framework): Pull Requests, Issues
- QEMU (processor emulator): A timing bug fix
- SAI (switch abstraction interface): Pull Requests
- SlackStream (all-at-a-glance viewer of Slack messages)

Student Mentoring

Shinsuke Hamada (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology), 2017 - 2018
=> Paper accepted for SFMA'18 (co-located with EuroSys)
Atsushi Koshiba (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology), 2017
=> Paper accepted for NVMSA'17
Natsumi Asahara (The University of Tokyo), 2014 - 2015
=> Papers presented in WISS'14 and Symposium on Emerging Japanese HCI Research Collection (colocated with CHI'15)

Event Hosting

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Soramichi Akiyama (穐山 空道)