From Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Thailand, Prof. Keeratiburt Kanchanasatian and Prof. Chutima Prasartkaew are visiting our laboratory.

The following paper by Prof. Matteo Convertino is now available online.

• Joseph L. Servadio, Matteo Convertino, “Optimal information networks: Application for data-driven integrated health in populations,” Science Advances, Vol. 4, No. 2, Feb. 2018.

For the details, see the following.

• https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-02/hu-aua020118.php
• https://techxplore.com/news/2018-02-unbiased-approach-sifting-big.html
• https://www.techexplorist.com/researchers-developed-unbiased-approach-sifting-through-big-data/11323/
• https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/blog/an-unbiased-approach-for-sifting-through-big-data/
• http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/2/e1701088

Matteo Convertino has joined Information Communication Network Laboratory as an associate professor.

Dr. Takashi Imagawa promoted to an assistant professor of Integrated Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University. He was with our laboratory from May 2015 to Mar 2017 as a postdoctoral research fellow.

On Jan 27, Mr. Federico Mendoza Ang made his PhD defenses presentation at IST Building Room 11-17. The title of his dissertation is the following.

• Federico Ang, A Study of Noise-Robust Speech Recognition and Time-Varying Speech Features, 2016