Soramichi Akiyama (穐山 空道)

What's Hot

• A research proposal granted by Strategic Basic Research Programs operated by JST (September 2018).
• I received "IPSJ Computer Science Research Award for Young Scientists" from
  Information Processing Society of Japan (August 2018).

Education

07/1987	Born in Kyoto, Japan
03/2010	B.Eng., Kyoto University (Advisor: Prof. Hiroshi G. Okuno)
03/2012	M.Sc., Dept. of Creative Informatics, The University of Tokyo (Advisor: Prof. Shinichi Honiden)
03/2015	Ph.D., Dept. of Creative Informatics, The University of Tokyo (Advisor: 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, WA, U.S.), mentored by Dr. Gabriel Kliot
04/2013 - 03/2015	JSPS Research Fellow DC2, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
04/2015 - 10/2015	Researcher, Software Innovation Center, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT)
11/2015 - 05/2018	Researcher, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, 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
10/2018 - Today	(Concurrent Service: Technical Advisor, i Smart Technologies)

Awards and Honors

1. IPSJ Computer Science Research Award for Young Scientists, August 2018 (details in Japanese)
2. Endorsement to my Ph.D. thesis by IPSJ SIG-OS, June 2015 (details in Japanese)
3. Dean's Award, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, March 2015
4. My line is cited in an AAAI'15 paper! (See the "Introduction")
5. Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, April 2013 - March 2015
   Accepted: 1222 / Applicants: 4715 = 25.9%
6. IPSJ Computer Science Research Award for Young Scientists, July 2012 (details in Japanese)
7. 2nd place out of 7 speakers, Student Presentations Session, LinuxCon Japan 2012 (no official record)
8. Best Paper Award in ComSys 2011, 1st place out of 11 accepted papers
9. Student Poster-Demonstration Award in ComSys 2011, 1st place out of all student posters and demos

Public Services

• Organizing Activities
  • PC Member, 38th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2019)
  • Mentor, The First Young Architect Workshop (YArch), co-located with 25th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2019)
  • 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)
  • PC 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: 2019, 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)

Grants

1. ACT-I, Strategic Basic Research Programs, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 3000 K JPY, 2018/10 - 2020/3
2. Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2000 K JPY, 2013/4 - 2015/3

Teaching

1. Introduction to Algorithms (Course Assistance), The University of Tokyo, 2018 Semester A

Event Hosting

• Systems Paper Survey

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