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

mail, github, Linkedin, Twitter, Kaggle, SlideShare, CV

Google Scholar

Poster

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

Graduation Theses

• A Comments Summarization System for News site, Master Thesis, 2013
• An Efficient Method for Semidefinite Programming Via Using Sparse Stracture, Graduation Thesis, 2011

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

• Kaggle, Tweet Sentiment Extraction, 5th, 2020
• Kaggle, Santa's Workshop Tour 2019, 23th (reached optimal), 2019
• Kaggle, TalkingData AdTracking Fraud Detection Challenge, 11th, 2018
• Kaggle Master, 2017
• Kaggle, Instacart Market Basket Analysis, 15th, 2017
• Kaggle, Quora Question Pairs, 17th, 2017
• Kaggle, Bosch Production Line Performance, 15th, 2016
• Repayment Exemption of Student Loan (about $25,000) for Students with Excellent Grades - Japan Student Services Organization, 2013
• "The Data Analysis Competition 2013” Student Division 2nd Prize, 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)