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. 2025Special Postdoctoral Researcher
Structured Learning Team
Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP)
RIKEN
Apr. 2020 – Mar. 2023Ph.D. student / Senior Research Assistant
National Institute of Informatics
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
Apr. 2018 – Mar. 2020Researcher
Intelligent Media Processing Group
Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd.
Apr. 2016 – Mar. 2018Graduate Student
Theoretical Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group
Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science
Tohoku University
Apr. 2012 – Mar. 2016Undergraduate Student
Department of Physics, Undergraduate School of Science
Gakushuin University

External Stay

Sep. 2023 – Nov. 2023Guest Postdoc
Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
Cognitive Systems
Technical University of Denmark
Nov. 2021 – Apr. 2022Academic 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)

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. Jun. 2023 – Mar. 2024 AIP Challenge Program
    Quantum Multi-Body Modeling of Non-Negative Tensors
    1,000,000 JPY
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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]
  7. 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

Python5 yearsChainer, sklearn, openCV for research.
Julia3 yearsNumerical calculation
Mathematica6 yearsWolfram Language for formula processing.
Fortran90half-yearNumerical calculation
C/C++2 yearsNumerical calculation
Linux6 yearsUbuntu for development

Professional Activities

📝 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

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