SHORT CV

   Akie Sakiyama received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in computer and information sciences from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2014, 2015 and 2018, respectively. She was a Research Fellow (DC1) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). She joined Toyota Motor Corporation in 2018. 

  She received IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Japan Student Journal Paper Award and IEEE SPS Japan Best Paper Award from IEEE SPS Tokyo Joint Chapter in 2015 and 2016, respectively. She also received the TELECOM System Technology Student Award (with highest honors) from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation in 2016 and the Young Researchers' Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) in 2017. Her current research interests are graph signal processing and high-dimensional data analysis.

  Academic Backgrounds

  • Oct. 2015-Mar. 2018: Graduate School of BASE, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. (Ph.D.)
  • Apr. 2014-Sep. 2015: Graduate School of BASE, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. (M.E.)
  • Apr. 2010-Mar. 2014: Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. (B.E.)

  Awards 

  • IEICE Signal Processing Research AwardIEICE Technical Group on Signal Processing, November 2018
  • Outstanding Student Research Award, Graduate School of BASE, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, April 2017
  • Young Researchers' Award, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), March 2017
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Japan Best Paper Award, IEEE SPS Tokyo Joint Chapter, November 2016
  • Outstanding Student Research Award, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, April 2016
  • Outstanding Student Award, Graduate School of BASE, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, March 2016
  • TELECOM System Technology Student Award, The Telecommunication Advancement Foundation (TAF), March 2016
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Japan Student Journal Paper Award, IEEE SPS Tokyo Joint Chapter, November 2015
  • 28th SIP Symposium Young Researcher Encouragement AwardThe Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, November 2013

  Work Experience

  • Apr. 2018-                 : Toyota Motor Corporation
  • Apr. 2016-Mar. 2018 : Research Fellow (DC1) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
  • Oct. 2015-Mar. 2016 : Research Assistant, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.
  • Oct. 2015-Mar. 2016 : Research Fellow, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. 
  • Apr. 2014-Mar. 2015 : Teaching Assistant, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. 

  Reviewer Experience

  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP)
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks (TSIPN)
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP)
  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL)
  • Journal of The Franklin Institute
  • Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing

  Thesis

  • Doctoral thesis 

    • English title: Design of Spectral Graph Wavelets and Filter Banks
    • Japanese title: グラフ信号処理のためのウェーブレット及びフィルタバンクの設計
  • Master thesis 
    • English title: On Conversion of Filter Banks from the Frequency Domain to the Graph Spectral Domain
    • Japanese title: 線形位相フィルタバンクを用いたグラフスペクトルフィルタバンク
  • Bachelor thesis 
    • English title: Laplacian pyramids for graph signals
    • Japanese title: グラフ信号処理のためのラプラシアンピラミッドの設計法
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