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Hirofumi Shiba

Education

  • PhD Statistical Science. Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Tokyo, Japan. 2023.4 – 2028.3

    Superivsor: Prof. Kengo Kamatani

  • BA Mathematics. Department of Mathematics, University of Tokyo. 2019.4 – 2023.3

    Supervisor: Prof. Nakahiro Yoshida

Publications

  1. Diffusive Scaling Limits of Forward Event-Chain Monte Carlo: Provably Efficient Exploration with Partial Refreshment
    Hirofumi Shiba, Kengo Kamatani. (2026). Submitted to the Annals of Applied Probability.
    Details DOI arXiv GitHub
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Research Visit

  • School of Mathematics, University of Bristol. 2026.9.21 – 2026.10.21

    Supervisor: Prof. Christophe Andrieu

  • Institute of Stochastics, Ulm University, Germany. 2025.7.13 – 2025.7.26

    Supervisor: Prof. Evgeny Spodarev

  • Department of Statistics & Data Science, National University of Singapore. 2025.6.1 – 2025.6.30

    Supervisor: Dr. Alexandre Thiéry

  • Department of Statistical Science, University College London, United Kingdom. 2024.11.4 – 2024.12.2

    Supervisor: Prof. Alexandros Beskos

Grants & Awards

  • Research Fellow. Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Tokyo, Japan. 2025.4 – 2028.3

    Supported by JST BOOST, Japan Grant Number JPMJBS2412: A Radical Approach to Trustworthy AI in the Coming Era. ¥ 11,700,000.

  • Best Poster Award, 19th Spring Meeting of the Japan Statistical Society. 2025.3.8

  • Director’s Award from the Japan Statistical Society Certificate. 2025.3.8

Service

Reviewing: Bayesian Analysis, Journal of Machine Learning Research

Additional Experience

  • Data Scientist. PreMedica, Inc., Tokyo, Japan. 2024.9 – today

    Responsibilities: Provided Bayesian data analysis solutions to healthcare applications.

  • Research Assistant. The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan. 2023.7 – 2026.3

    Responsibilities: Contributed to the R package YUIMA, an open-source project aiming to simulate and infer multidimensional stochastic differential equations, with an emphasis on Bayesian inference.