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1 Akihiko YAMAGUCHI Address: Nara Institute of Science and Technology, , Takayama-cho, Ikoma-shi, Nara, JAPAN Phone: +81-(0) EDUCATION : Undergraduate School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University : Master's course, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) : Doctorate course, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) ACADEMIC DEGREE : Bachelor of Engineering (Kyoto University) Thesis title: "Event-driven control and its representation: towards a motion learning of multi-dof robot in dynamic environment" : Master of Engineering (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) Thesis title: "Reinforcement Learning with Reusing Mechanism of Avoidance Actions and its Application to Learning Whole-Body Motions of Multi-Link Robot" (in Japanese) : Doctor of Engineering (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) Thesis title: "Highly Modularized Learning System for Behavior Acquisition of Functional Robots" EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Current: Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology : Researcher, Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International

2 : JSPS Research Fellow (DC2) : JSPS Research Fellow (PD) Current: Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology : Part-time lecturer, Osaka Electro-Communication University Current: Part-time lecturer, Osaka Electro-Communication University INTERNSHIP HISTORY : Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Advanced Robot Design (NAIST): 2011, 2012, 2013 Introduction to Advanced Robot Technology (NAIST): 2012, 2013 Advanced Robot Development I (NAIST): 2012 Advanced Robot Development II (NAIST): 2012 Advanced Robot Development I (NAIST): 2013 Advanced Robot Development II (NAIST): 2013 Studio of Advanced IT (NAIST): 2012, 2013 Computer Hardware (O.E.C.U.): 2012, 2013 Computer Interface (O.E.C.U.): 2012 NAIST: Nara Institute of Science and Technology O.E.C.U.: Osaka Electro-Communication University ACADEMIC ACTIVITY The Robotics Society of Japan The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) IEEE Robotics and Automation Society AWARDS May, 2009: the 2009 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Chapter Young Award for "Constructing Action Set from Basis Functions for Reinforcement Learning of Robot Control" (ICRA2009).

3 March, 2011: NAIST Best Student Award December, 2011: RT Middleware Contest 2011 Incentive Award (Global Standard Award) for Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Ricardez, Satoki Tsuichihara, Atsutoshi Ikeda, Akihiko Yamaguchi, Jun Takamatsu, and Tsukasa Ogasawara: "RT Component for analyzing a motion script to implement a service using the Humanoid Robot HRP-4" (SI2011). GRANTS : Grant-in-Aid for JSPS, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Fellows (# ) Japanese: native language English: fluent LANGUAGES PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED) (Peer reviewed) JOURNAL PAPERS Akihiko Yamaguchi, Jun Takamatsu, and Tsukasa Ogasawara: DCOB: Action space for reinforcement learning of high DoF robots, Autonomous Robots, Vol.34, No.4, pp , May, Akihiko Yamaguchi, Jun Takamatsu, and Tsukasa Ogasawara: Constructing Action Space from Basis Functions for Motion Acquisition of Robots by Reinforcement Learning, Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol.29, No.1, pp.55-66, (in Japanese) Akihiko Yamaguchi, Norikazu Sugimoto, and Mitsuo Kawato: Reinforcement Learning with Reusing Mechanism of Avoidance Actions and its Application to Learning Whole-Body Motions of Multi-Link Robot, Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol.27, No.2, pp , (in Japanese)

4 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (Peer reviewed) Tsukasa Ogasawara: Extended Asymmetric Velocity Moderation: a reactive strategy for Human-Safe Robot Control, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO2013), Shenzhen, December, (to appear) Akihiko Yamaguchi, Jun Takamatsu, and Tsukasa Ogasawara: Learning Strategy Fusion for Acquiring Crawling Behavior in Multiple Environments, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO2013), Shenzhen, December, (to appear) Tsukasa Ogasawara: Withdrawal Strategy for human Safety based on a Virtual Force Model, in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2013), Tokyo, November 4, (to appear) Akihiko Yamaguchi, and Tsukasa Ogasawara: A Novel Robot-Task-Description for a Variety of Dynamic Behaviors, in Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII2012), pp.86-92, Fukuoka, Japan, December 16, Akihiko Yamaguchi, Shiori Sato, Kentaro Takemura, Jun Takamatsu, and Tsukasa Ogasawara: Style Translation Filter to Change Attribute of Motion, in Proceedings of the 12th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids2012), pp , Osaka, Japan, December 1, Tsukasa Ogasawara: Asymmetric Velocity Moderation: a Reactive Strategy for Human Safety, in Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR2012), 56 (S7A-2), Texas, US, November 7, Emarc Magtanong, Akihiko Yamaguchi, Kentaro Takemura, Jun Takamatsu, and Tsukasa Ogasawara: Inverse Kinematics Solver for Android Faces with Elastic Skin, Latest Advances in Robot Kinematics, pp , Innsbruck, Austria, June 26, Akihiko Yamaguchi, Jun Takamatsu, and Tsukasa Ogasawara: Learning Strategy Fusion to Acquire Dynamic Motion, in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids2011), pp , Bled, Slovenia, 2011.

5 Akihiko Yamaguchi, and Tsukasa Ogasawara: SkyAI: Highly Modularized Reinforcement Learning Library Concepts, Requirements, and Implementation, in Proceedings of the 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids2010), pp , Nashville, TN, US, Akihiko Yamaguchi, Sang-Ho Hyon, and Tsukasa Ogasawara: Reinforcement Learning for Balancer Embedded Humanoid Locomotion, in Proceedings of the 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids2010), pp , Nashville, TN, US, Akihiko Yamaguchi, Jun Takamatsu, and Tsukasa Ogasawara: Constructing Continuous Action Space from Basis Functions for Fast and Stable Reinforcement Learning, in Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN2009), pp , Toyama, Japan, Akihiko Yamaguchi, Jun Takamatsu, and Tsukasa Ogasawara: Constructing Action Set from Basis Functions for Reinforcement Learning of Robot Control, in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2009), pp , Kobe, Japan, May, BOOKS OpenCV 2 Programming Book Seisaku-Team: OpenCV 2 Programming Book, Mynavi, (Section 4.9) (in Japanese)

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