
I am Kazu Ghalamkari (ガラムカリ和), a DDSA postdoc fellow in DTU, Denmark.
Recently, I have been working with Prof. Morten Mørup. I am interested in developing methods to analyze higher-order correlations hidden in data.
I like mathematics, machine learning, programming, movies, and coffee!☕
Research Interests
Machine Learning, Information Geometry, Tensor Networks, Energy-based Model
Memberships
Apr. 2020 – now JSAI (The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence)
Mar. 2017 – Mar. 2018 JPS (The Physical Society of Japan)
Affiliation
Section for Cognitive Systems
Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
Technical University of Denmark
Contact
DTU Compute, Section for Cognitive Systems, Richard Petersens Plads building 321-112
DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby
E-mail: kazfu [at_mark] dtu.dk
Biosketch
| Feb. 2025 – | DDSA Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Section for Cognitive Systems Technical University of Denmark |
| Apr. 2023 – Jan. 2025 | Special Postdoctoral Researcher Structured Learning Team Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) RIKEN |
| Apr. 2020 – Mar. 2023 | Ph.D. student / Senior Research Assistant National Institute of Informatics The Graduate University for Advanced Studies |
| Apr. 2018 – Mar. 2020 | Researcher Intelligent Media Processing Group Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd. |
| Apr. 2016 – Mar. 2018 | Graduate Student Theoretical Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science Tohoku University |
| Apr. 2012 – Mar. 2016 | Undergraduate Student Department of Physics, Undergraduate School of Science Gakushuin University |
External Stay
| Sep. 2023 – Nov. 2023 | Guest Postdoc Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Cognitive Systems Technical University of Denmark |
| Nov. 2021 – Apr. 2022 | Academic Guest Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering Machine Learning & Computational Biology Lab ETH Zürich |
Periods of leave
Paternity leave: 7 Oct. 2024 – 7 Nov. 2024 (4 weeks)
Academic degree
🎓 Doctor of Philosophy in informatics, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, 24 Mar. 2023
Thesis: Convex Manifold Approximation for Tensors
Committee: Prof. Mahito Sugiyama (chair), Prof. Yuichi Yoshida, Prof. Katsumi Inoue, Prof. Kazushi Mimura, Prof. Makoto Yamada
Thesis
- Convex Manifold Approximation for Tensors [pdf] [Slide]
Doctoral thesis, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (24 Mar. 2023) - Valley polarization in layer material by light absorption [pdf] [Abst] [Slide]
Master thesis, Graduate School of Science and Faculty of Science (2018.3) - 傾いたディラックコーンにおける磁場中のエネルギー準位構造 [Abst] [Slide]
Bachelor thesis presentation, School of Science, Gakushuin University (Mar. 2016)
💵 Grants and fellowships (PI)
- Feb. 2025 – Feb. 2027 Danish Data Science Academy, Postdoc Fellowship 2024
NTN-C3: Nonnegative Tensor Networks — Identifying the Limits of Convexity, Gains of Complexity, and Merits of Certainty
1,260,000 DKK (incl. Salary) - Jul. 2024 – Mar. 2025 National Institute of Informatics Open Collaborative Research 2024
Unified solver for non-negative tensor factorization
650,000 JPY
* Originally served as PI; position transferred after moving to an institution abroad.(海外研究機関への移籍に伴い、研究代表者を交代) - Jun. 2023 – Mar. 2024 AIP Challenge Program
Quantum Multi-Body Modeling of Non-Negative Tensors
1,000,000 JPY - Apr. 2023 – Mar. 2026 RIKEN, Special Postdoctoral Researchers Program
Graph Low-rank Decomposition
Host researcher: Prof. Yoshinobu Kawahara, Osaka Univ.
3,000,000 JPY + Salary - Sep. 2021 – Mar. 2021 日本学術振興会 第2回 若手研究者海外挑戦プログラム
情報幾何学に基づくテンソル多体相互作用解析とバイオインフォマティクスへの応用 (declined)
Host researcher: Prof. Karsten BORGWARDT, ETH Zürich - Oct. 2021 – Apr. 2022 Young Researchers’ Exchange Programme between Japan and Switzerland 2021
Tensor based many-body interaction analysis by information geometry and its applications to bioinformatics
Host researcher: Prof. Karsten BORGWARDT, ETH Zürich
Travel fee + financial support (15000 CHF) [Report] - Apr. 2020 – Mar. 2023 Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1)
An information-geometric approach to quantum statistical physics using log-linear models on posets
Host researcher: Prof. Mahito Sugiyama, SOKENDAI
3,100,000 JPY + Salary [Report]
👑 Awards
- 📝 Top Reviewer of NeurIPS 2025, 20 Nov. 2025 🔗
- 👑 AIP Network Laboratory Director Award, 4 Mar. 2024🔗
AIPチャレンジプログラム AIPネットワークラボ長賞 - 📝 Top Reviewer of NeurIPS 2023 (10.2%, 1,197 of 11,725 reviewers), 20 Nov. 2023 🔗
- 👑 JSAI Annual Conference Award 2023, 1 Nov. 2023 🔗
人工知能学会全国大会(第37回)優秀賞 - 🎓 School of Multidisciplinary Science Dean’s Award, 24 Mar. 2023
総合研究大学院大学 複合科学研究科長賞 - 👑 Best Student Award, National Institute of Informatics, 22 Sep. 2022
国立情報学研究所優秀学生賞 - 👑 JSAI Annual Conference Award 2021, 1 Nov. 2021 🔗
人工知能学会全国大会(第35回)優秀賞 - 💵 Exemption from Repayment with Outstanding Achievements
Japan Student Services Organization Mar. 2018
日本学生支援機構奨学金 特に優れた業績による返還免除(全額)
RA, TA and Scholarships
- 💵 The ANRI Fellowship 🔗
Nov. 2020 - 👨🔬 Senior Research Assistant
Apr. 2020 – Mar. 2023, National Institute of Informatics - 👨🏫 Teaching Assistant: Information Science I
Sep. 2016 – Mar. 2017, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University
Skills
| Python | 5 years | Chainer, sklearn, openCV for research. |
| Julia | 3 years | Numerical calculation |
| Mathematica | 6 years | Wolfram Language for formula processing. |
| Fortran90 | half-year | Numerical calculation |
| C/C++ | 2 years | Numerical calculation |
| Linux | 6 years | Ubuntu for development |
Professional Activities
- 2026
- Organizer of PhD summer school in DTU,
02901 Advanced Topics in Machine Learning: Tensor Networks for Data Science
- Organizer of PhD summer school in DTU,
- 2023
- AIP Challenge Committee Member in 2023
- 2022
- Support Staff in SIG‑FPAI 2022, 27 – 30 Sep. 2022
📝 Reviews
- 2025
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2025 (NeurIPS2025) [Top Reviewer 🔗], 5 papers
- EurIPS 2025 workshop
- IEEE ICASSP 2026, Satellite Workshop M-SPARC
- 2024
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024 (NeurIPS2024), 6 papers
- 2023
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023 (NeurIPS2023) [Top Reviewer 🔗], 6 papers
- 2022
- Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
- Artificial Intelligence and Statistics Conference 2022 (AISTATS2022), 3 papers
- 2021
- Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
- Artificial Intelligence and Statistics Conference 2021 (AISTATS2021), 2 papers

