Kei Nishihara

Kei Nishihara

3rd-year Doctoral Student

Yokohama National University

Biography

Kei NISHIHARA received B.Eng. and M.Eng. from Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2020 and 2022, respectively. He is now a doctoral student at Yokohama National University. His current research interest includes evolutionary computation. He belongs to the Evolutionary Intelligence Research Group (Nakata Lab.), which deals with Evolutionary Rule-based Machine Learning (ERL or EML) and Evolutionary Computation (EC). He was a visiting researcher at Westlake University (China) from 2023 Oct. to 2024 Mar. He is also a student member of IEEE (and CIS), IEEJ, IPSJ, and JPNSEC. JSPS Research Fellow (DC1).

Qualification: Applied Information Technology Engineer, Fundamental Information Technology Engineer, The Third Class Chief Electrical Engineer (a.k.a. The Third Class Electric Works Specialist), and The Second Class Qualified Certified Electrician.

Research Interests
  • Evolutionary Computation
  • Swarm Intelligence
  • Algorithm Adaptation
  • Surrogate-assisted Evolutionary Algorithm
Education
  • B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2020

    Yokohama National University, Japan

  • M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2022

    Yokohama National University, Japan

Upcoming Events

PPSN 2024
International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2024)
PPSN 2024

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Westlake University School of Engineering
Visiting Researcher
Oct 2023 – Mar 2024 Hangzhou, China
I was a visiting researcher at Trustworthy & General Artificial Intelligence Laboratory for about half a year. My supervisor was Chair Prof. Yaochu Jin (IEEE Fellow, IEEE CIS President, Member of Academia Europaea)
 
 
 
 
 
the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Research Fellow (DC1)
Apr 2022 – Present Tokyo, Japan
 
 
 
 
 
YNU Graduate School of Engineering Science
Doctoral Student
Apr 2022 – Present Yokohama, Japan

Major: Evolutionary Computation

Laboratory: Evolutionary Intelligence Research Group (Nakata Lab)

Ph.D. Thesis:

 
 
 
 
 
YNU Graduate School of Engineering Science
Master’s Degree Student
Apr 2020 – Mar 2022 Yokohama, Japan

Major: Evolutionary Computation

Laboratory: Evolutionary Intelligence Research Group (Nakata Lab)

Master Thesis: “Adaptive Evolutionary Computation with Prior-Validation” (in Japanese, PDF)

 
 
 
 
 
YNU College of Engineering Science
Undergraduate Student
Apr 2016 – Mar 2020 Yokohama, Japan

Major (B1 - B3): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Laboratory (B4): Evolutionary Intelligence Research Group (Nakata Lab)

Graduation Thesis: “Competitive-Adaptive Algorithm-Tuning of Metaheuristics inspired by the Equilibrium Theory” (in Japanese, PDF)

 
 
 
 
 
Eiko Gakuen High School
High School
Apr 2012 – Mar 2015 Kamakura (near station - Ofuna), Japan

Clubs I belonged to:

  • Eiko Piano Circle / former page
      We performed and managed concerts three times a year, including the school festival, and organized a new seminar by inviting outside lecturer. As a member of Bible class, I accompanied the organ at Mass.

  • Bible class
      It was a precious time of reading and being taught the Bible, as well as discussing its contents and other trivial matters with my fellow students. I am grateful for the opportunity to work in an atmosphere that was not at all formal, and to have had many experiences such as pilgrimages to Tokyo and Nagasaki (half of which were sightseeing!) and volunteering.

  • Soccer club
      in junior high (Eiko Gakuen is a combined junior and senior high school). It was a perfect balance of self-discipline and pure enjoyment of soccer.

Recent Publications

(2024). A Surrogate-assisted Partial Optimization for Expensive Constrained Optimization Problems. Proc. Int. Conf. Parallel Probl. Solving Nat. (PPSN), pp. 391–407.

PDF BibTeX Code Poster DOI Link (Paper) Link (Conference)

(2024). Report on Open Space Discussion 2023. Trans. Jpn. Soc. Evol. Comput., Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 11–19 (in Japanese).

PDF BibTeX DOI Link

(2024). Evolutionary multiobjective optimization assisted by scalarization function approximation for high-dimensional expensive problems. Swarm Evol. Comput., Vol. 86, pp. 101516.

BibTeX Code DOI Link

Awards

Presentation Award
Awarded at the 16th JPNSEC Symposium on Evolutionary Computation with IEEE CIS Japan Chapter YRA at the same time.
See certificate
Young Researcher Award (YRA)
Awarded at the 16th JPNSEC Symposium on Evolutionary Computation with Presentation Award at the same time. JPNSEC Page.
See certificate
Second Prize – The 51st Kanagawa Prefecture Senior High School English Speech Contest

Grants & Scholarships

I sincerely would like to give my gratitude for your kind support.

GECCO 2023 Student Travel Grants
supported for the attendance at GECCO 2023
Overseas Travel Grants for Researchers
supported for the attendance at IEEE WCCI(CEC) 2020
See certificate
Fuji Seal Scholarship Student
You can find me in most of the photos on this page :).
See certificate

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