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Taisuke Kobayashi

Bio

Work experience

  • 2022/04 ~ : Assistant Professor, National Institute of Informatics (NII) Principles of Informatics Research Division
  • 2022/04 ~ : Assistant Professor (concurrent appointment), The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) Informatics Program
  • 2022/04 ~ 2023/03 : Visiting Assistant Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) Robot Learning Lab.
  • 2020/01 ~ 2022/03 : PRESTO Researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Trustworthy AI
  • 2016/01 ~ 2022/03 : Assistant Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) Intelligent System Control Lab.
  • 2018/05 ~ 2019/03 : Visiting scholar, Technical University of Munich (TUM) Institute for Cognitive Systems
  • 2016/04 ~ 2016/01 : Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Academic degree

  • 2016/09 : Doctor of Engineering degree, Nagoya University Intelligent Robotics and Biomechatronics Lab.
  • 2014/03 : Master of Engineering degree, Nagoya University Sekiyama Lab.
  • 2012/03 : Bachelor of Engineering degree, Nagoya University Fukuda Lab.

Academic society

Award

  • 2024/09/05 : The 37th Best Paper Award @ RSJ
  • 2024/05/30 : ROBOMECH2023 Award for excellence in interdisciplinary research @ JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Division
  • 2023/04/20 : JSME Young Engineers Award @ JSME
  • 2022/10/26 : SICE International Young Authors Award for IROS 2022 @ SICE
  • 2021/03/17 : Best Robotics Symposia Award @ JSME
  • 2020/11/23 : Excellence Research Award @ 2020 HSR User Meeting
  • 2018/03/21 : Best Poster Presentation Award @ Third HSR User Meeting
  • 2017/12/23 : SI2017 Excellent Presentation Award @ SICE
  • 2016/07/06 : Nagoya University Outstanding Graduate Student Award @ Nagoya University
  • 2016/03/22 : Conference Presentation Awards @ IEEE Nagoya Section

Grant

PI

  • FY2024 ~ 2029 : JST CRONOS "Inclusive Robotic Foundation Model with Unstandardized Data"
  • FY2024 ~ 2025 : KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) "Efficient and rational prediction process integrated with optimality-conditioned internal model"
  • FY2024 ~ 2025 : KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) Development and validation of a unified theory of prediction and action (Publicly Offered Research) "Elucidating Functional Roles of Nonlinear TD Errors Guided by Reinforcement Learning as Inference"
  • FY2023 ~ 2025 : ROIS Strategic Research Projects "Lifelong Learning with Control of Forgetting"
  • FY2020 ~ 2023 : JST PRESTO "Deep reinforcement learning with explicit limitations of robustness and safety"
  • FY2020 ~ 2023 : KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) "Development of deep learning to reveal physical human-robot interaction and its application to safe robot control"
  • FY2020 : ROIS NII Open Collaborative Research "Development of deep learning method to understand human intentions in latent space for realization of collaborative robots"
  • FY2020 : Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Research Grant "Deep Reinforcement Learning with feedforward policy robust to measurement and communication delays (Extended)"
  • FY2019 ~ 2020 : The Support Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology Research, Foundation (SCAT) Research Grant "Establishment of reservoir computing with super long-term memory capacity for past input"
  • FY2019 : Tateishi Science and Technology Promotion Foundation Reserach Grant (A) "Emergence of partnership by mutual understanding of human and robot priorities"
  • FY2019 : Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Research Grant "Deep Reinforcement Learning with feedforward policy robust to measurement and communication delays"
  • FY2017 ~ 2019 : Kayamori Foundation of Information Science Advancement Research Grant "Establishment of learning method for memory consolidation by Overlearning"
  • FY2017 ~ 2019 : KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) "Autonomous gait generation of legged robot using hierachical multi-objective reinforcement learning"
  • FY2016 ~ 2017 (Withdrawn in FY2027) : JSPS KAKENHI (Research Fellowship for Young Scientists) "Integration of walking and running control utilizing features of multiple control methods in humanoid robots"

Member

  • FY2021 ~ 2024 : KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (PI Kenji Sugimoto) "計測・通信品質が保証されない環境下の多目的フィードフォワード最適制御と強化学習"
  • FY2020 : Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Research Grant (PI Masaki Ogura) "深層学習を用いた超高精度な行列因子分解"
  • FY2018 ~ 2021 : KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (PI Kenji Sugimoto) "計測や通信の品質が保証されない環境下での事象トリガ調整型2自由度制御系"

Collaborator

  • FY2022 ~ 2024 : JST AIP Acceleration Research (PI Tadayoshi Aoyama) "Easy ICSI system based on skill transfer of embryologists"
  • FY2020 ~ 2025 : JST CREST (PI Kensaku Mori) "Reliable Interventional AI Robotics sharing its ambiguity of AI diagnosis with medical profession"

Travel support

  • 2019/09/09 ~ 2019/09/20 : Travel grant from Telecommunications Advancement Foundation, Munich, Germany (Presentation at ICANN2019)
  • 2018/05/10 ~ 2019/03/13 : JSPS Progam for Fostering Globally Talented Researchers, Munich, Germany (Visiting scholar at Technical University of Munich)
  • 2017/07/06 ~ 2017/07/17 : Junior Experts Exchange Program, Germany (Visiting many laboratories for personnel exchange)
  • 2014/11/17 ~ 2014/11/22 : Travel grant for doctoral students from the Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Madrid, Spain (Presentation at Humanoids2014)

Organization

  • 2025/01/21 (accepted) : Workshop, The 2025 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integrations "Learning Robotic Systems: Next Theory, Algorithm, and Integration"
  • 2022/12/13 : Workshop, 第69回 自律分散システム部会研究会 "若手研究者による模倣学習・強化学習の新展開"
  • 2022/10/14 : OS, The 54th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and Its Applications "Data-Driven Technology and Its Application"
  • 2018/09/13 : OS, The SICE Annual Conference 2018 "Robot Learning"

Committee

  • 2024 ~ : 計測自動制御学会 システム・情報部門 自律分散システム部会 運営委員会 2024度部会副幹事
  • 2023 ~ : IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Associate Editor
  • 2023 ~ : IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII) Associate Editor
  • 2022 ~ : International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Program Committee
  • 2022 ~ : ロボティクスシンポジア プログラム委員
  • 2022 ~ 2024 : ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会2024 (ROBOMECH2024) プログラム委員
  • 2022 ~ 2023 : 日本ロボット学会 Advanced Robotics Paper Awards選考小委員会 委員
  • 2022 ~ 2023 : 計測自動制御学会 システム・情報部門 自律分散システム部会 運営委員会 2022度部会研究会実行委員長
  • 2021 ~ 2022 : The 54th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and Its Applications Program & Steering Committee
  • 2020 ~ 2021 : 日本ロボット学会 会誌編集委員会 委員
  • 2019 ~ 2020 : 日本ロボット学会 学術講演会関連賞選考委員会 委員