More about me

  • My name is written by “包 含” in Chinese characters. Interestingly, both two characters mean “inclusion”! In Japanese, my name is pronunciated as “Tsutsumi Fukumu”, by which I have got used to being called. My personal preference is being called by “Tsutsumi” in Japanese and “Han” in English :)
  • I love craft beers3 Beans Stout (Lervig) and Qawa (Bandit Brewery) are a few examples that impressed me a lot.
  • I love music—Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Chick Corea, Donny McCaslin, Fred Hersch, Herbie Hancock, Hiromi Uehara, Joshua Redman, Kendrick Scott, Marcus Strickland, Maria Schneider, Mark Guilliana, Rich Perry, Vijay Iyer, to mention a few—all of them are wonderful musicians.
  • Recently, I like to read books in social science, modern philosophy, and history on weekends.

Experiences

  • 2022/04 - Present Program-Specific Assistant Professor, Kyoto University
  • 2023/04 - Present Visiting Scholar, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
  • 2023/02 - 2023/03 Visiting Faculty at ENSAI, France
  • 2019/10 - 2020/02 Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan (host: Prof. Clayton Scott)
  • 2019/04 - 2022/03 JSPS Research Fellow, the University of Tokyo
  • 2017/04 - 2022/03 Research Assistant, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project

Education


Grants

As a PI

As a Co-PI

  • 2024/04 - 2028/03 JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B) (32K USD in total)
    “Research and Development of High-dimensional Large-scale Optimal Transport”
  • 2023/04 - 2025/03 Supporting Program for Unique Exploratory Investigation Team Studies (SPIRIT2) (max 50K USD / year)
    “Decolonizing Science: Deconstruction of Religious Values Internalized in Big Questions in Science”

Teaching

  • 2023/02/27 - 2023/03/01 Convex Analysis and Machine Learning, ENSAI

Awards and Honors

  • 2024/11/07 Best Presentation Award at IBIS2024 (1st place / 223 presentations) [link]
  • 2024/11/07 IEICE TC-IBISML Research Award 2023 [link]
  • 2023/12/04 Presentation Award Finalist at IBIS2023 [link]
  • 2023/03/16 Funai Information Technology Award for Young Researchers [link]
  • 2022/11/22 Presentation Award at IBIS2022 (2nd place / 202 presentations) [link]
  • 2022/03/24 Representative Graduate at the University of Tokyo AY2021 Diploma Presentation Ceremony [link]
  • 2020/11/26 Best Presentation Award at IBIS2020 (1st place / 116 presentations) [link]
  • 2019/11/22 Student Presentation Award at IBIS2019 [link]
  • 2018/11/20 Best Poster Award at 1st Japan-Israel Machine Learning Meeting (JIML2018) [link]
  • 2018/04/27 AIP Network Lab Award (1st place / 40 researchers) [link1][link2] / AIP Challenge Program

Media

  • 2022/04/14 日刊工業新聞「『二項分類問題』類似度学習で解く 京大・理研が理論的に証明」[link]
  • 2018/05/10 日刊工業新聞「データ少なくても学習東大と理研がAI技術『あの人と同じ』間接的回答から集団分類」[link]

Professional activities

Program Committee/Reviewer

  • 2025 AISTATS, ALT
  • 2024 NeurIPS, ICML, AISTATS, ALT
  • 2023 NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR
  • 2022 NeurIPS, ICML, UAI, AISTATS
  • 2021 NeurIPS, ICML, UAI, AISTATS, ICMLA
  • 2020 NeurIPS, ICML, AISTATS
  • 2019 NeurIPS, ICML, AISTATS, AAAI

Action Editor

  • Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)

Journal Reviewer

  • Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
  • Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
  • Neural Computation
  • SIAM Journal on Optimization (SIOPT)

Organizer

Workshops

  • ECCV 2024 Workshop on The Dark Side of Generative AIs and Beyond [link] (Organizer)
  • ICML 2023 Workshop on Duality Principles for Modern Machine Learning (Reviewer)
  • IJACI 2021 Workshop on Weakly Supervised Representation Learning (Reviewer)

Experiences (before 2018)


Languages

  • Japanese (native)
  • Chinese (fluent)
  • English (fluent)
  • French (beginner; I’m learning right now!)