Takami SATO

Ph.D. student in Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences @ University of California, Irvine, under the supervision of Qi Alfred Chen
Kaggle Master

Research interests: System Security, Machine Learning Security, Optimization, Data Mining

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Publications

• [Under submission] TakamiSato*, Junjie Shen*, Ningfei Wang, Yunhan Jack Jia, Xue Lin, and Qi Alfred Chen, Security of DeepLearning based Automated Lane Centering under Physical-World Adversarial Attack. (* denotes co-first authors)

Preprints

• TakamiSato*, Junjie Shen*, Ningfei Wang, Yunhan Jack Jia, Xue Lin, and Qi Alfred Chen, Hold Tight and Never Let Go: Security of Deep Learning based Automated Lane Centering under Physical-World Attack, arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.06701, 2020. (* denotes co-first authors)
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Poster

• [NDSS 2020] Takami Sato, Junjie Shen, Ningfei Wang, Yunhan Jack Jia, Xue Lin, Qi Alfred Chen, Security of Deep Learning based Lane Keeping Assistance System under Physical-World Adversarial Attack [abstract][demo]
  Best Technical Poster Award
  

Slides

• Overview of tree algorithms from decision tree to xgboost
• High performance python computing for data science
• Tutorials of Mathematical Optimization [JAPANESE]

Videos

• [English sub] Kaggle Tutorial on Porto Seguro's Comp. Part. 1 (Intro. to GCP registration)

Awards and Honors

• 1st place (Champion), Baidu AutoDriving CTF (Top 1/24), 2020
• Gold Medal (5th place), Kaggle Tweet Sentiment Extraction (Top 5/2227), 2020
• Silver Medal (23rd place, solo), Kaggle Santa's Workshop Tour 2019 (Top 23/1620 and optimal solution obtained), 2019
• Gold Medal (11th place, solo), TalkingData AdTracking Fraud Detection Challenge (Top 11/3946), 2018
• Earned the Kaggle Master title (Top 1% Kaggle competitors worldwide), 2017
• Gold Medal (15th place, solo), Kaggle Instacart Market Basket Analysis (Top 15/2622), 2017
• Silver Medal (17th place ,solo), Kaggle Quora Question Pairs (Top 17/3304), 2017
• Silver Medal (17th place), Kaggle Bosch Production Line Performance (Top 17/1370), 2016
• Repayment Exemption of Student Loan (about $25,000) for Students with Excellent Grades - Japan Student Services Organization, 2013

Projects

• Kaggler-ja: Kaggler user community in Japan. More than 8,200 members
• kaggler-ja slack
• kaggler-ja slack archiver
• kaggler-ja Wiki

Industry Experience

• July 2017 - Aug. 2018: Machine Learning Engineer, Freelance
• Sep. 2016 - June 2017: Machine Learning Engineer, Recruit Communications Co., Ltd.
• April 2013 - June 2016: Data Scientist/Software Engineer, BrainPad Inc.

Education

• Sept. 2019: Ph.D. in Computer Science - University of California, Irvine (Supervisor: Prof. Qi Alfred Chen)
• Sept. 2018: Master of Science in Computer Science - University of California, Irvine (Supervisor: Prof. Qi Alfred Chen)
• March 2013: MEng of Industrial Engineering and Management - Tokyo Institute of Technology (Supervisor: Prof. Kazuhide Nakata)
• March 2011: BEng of Industrial Engineering and Management - Tokyo Institute of Technology (Supervisor: Prof. Kazuhide Nakata)