Teaching Activities
My teaching activities include: supervising graduate and undergraduate students, teaching classes at Tsukuba, teaching mini-courses at other institutions and companies, and coaching the ICPC programming contest team.
I am passionate about teaching and helping students develop their potential, and I love the opportunities to talk with and support creative people. I know I could be doing much more when it comes to Scientific Communication, so if you have any ideas of activities that I could help with, I'd be happy to hear them!
Student Supervision
This is the list of the students that I am currently supervising. If you want to join our group, please see this page for important information.
| Name | Type | Research Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jair Pereira Junior | PhD Student | Empirical Analysis of Evolutionary Computation |
| Sara Saori Satake | PhD Student | Multi Agent Simulation |
| Felipe Junior | PhD Student | Procedural Generation |
| Guilherme Nakahata | PhD Student | Combinatorial Optimization |
| Matheus Lima | PhD Student | Evolutionary Computation |
| Kaneshika Yuki | Master Student | Agent-based Music Composition |
| Luiz Fernando | Master Student | Neuromorphic Computing |
| Gwenole Moison | Master Student | Lenia and Computation |
| Masato Nozu | Master Student | Multi Agent Simulation |
| Wu Zitong | Master Student | Evolution of Software Robots |
| Taiga Mizutani | Master Student | Genetic Programming |
| Tanjina Saif Karim | Master Student | Multi Agent Simulation |
| Yuya Iwata | Undergraduate Student | Evolutionary Computation |
| Hiroto Abe | Undergraduate Student | Combinatorial Optimization |
| Hiromu Ogata | Undergraduate Student | Drone Control |
| Nuria Carmona | Research Student | Virtual Creature Simulation |
| Yusen Du | Research Student | Multi Agent Simulation |
| Rafael D'Avila | Research Student | TBD |
Former students are listed on the Alumni page.
Lectures
I am teaching the following lectures at the University of Tsukuba. Some of these lectures have open materials: be sure to check their webpage!
- Experiment Design for Computer Science (0AL0400): This lecture teaches basic concepts of experimentation and analysis of experimental data to novice CS researchers. Webpage
- Topics in Computational Sciences I (0AL5402): In this lecture, we cover current topics of Computer Science in society, to raise awareness of the students of their roles as scientists and professionals.
- Programming Challenges (GB20602): This lecture aims to improve the programming skill of our undergraduate students using programming competitions. Webpage.
- Mathematics for Computer Science (GB13604): This lecture teaches basic mathematical concepts useful for CS majors.
- Introduction to Information Science: Computation (GA12201): This lecture introduces different areas of CS research to 1st year undergraduate students.
- Introduction to Programming (GA18112): This lecture teaches the basics of python programming to 1st year undergraduate students.
External Courses
I have participated in several non-regular teaching activities. Here is a short list of recent ones. A more detailed list is on the External Courses page.
- 2022 - Introduction to Artificial Life at Hiroshima University
- 2019 - Introduction to Blackbox Optimization course at Jaxa Laboratory, Tsukuba;
- 2019 - External Advisor at Binus University, Indonesia;
- 2014 to 2019 - STEMinar project, short course for high schoolers on Game Programming and Artificial Life
- 2018 to 2019 - "Machine Learning from Zero": extension program on machine learning by the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, Tsukuba.