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Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas Last modified date:2023.11.27

Associate Professor / Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University
Department of Informatics
Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering


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Undergraduate School
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Homepage
https://kyushu-u.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/danilo-vasconcellos-vargas
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http://lis.inf.kyushu-u.ac.jp/
Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (team leader) .
http://danilovargas.org
Academic Degree
PhD
Country of degree conferring institution (Overseas)
Yes Bachelor
Field of Specialization
Artificial General Intelligence, Cognitive Architecture, (Deep) Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation, Global Optimization and Applications (Security, Robotics, among others).
Total Priod of education and research career in the foreign country
14years00months
Outline Activities
(Please look at the lab's website for recent info regarding research and activities) Regarding research, I aim to develop a new generation of artificial intelligence. Additionally, I am applying the most recent artificial intelligence techniques to solve various problems in areas that range from security to electrical engineering. The results are published on top journals and conferences. In 2017, my research was published in the BBC news and in the same year my paper was published in the highest impact journal of the area of neural networks (IEEE Trans. Neural Networks).
To pursue research vigorously, I am also applying to various grants. In 2018 and 2017, I was awarded three grants, including the very competitive ACT-I.
In relation to education, I created two new courses (Artificial Intelligence I - Understanding the Basics and Artificial Intelligence II - Understanding the State of the Art), got accepted to present a tutorial in GECCO (which is a Core Rank A Conference) and also created a club for artificial intelligence in Kyushu University.
Research
Research Interests
  • Self-Organization based Learning: Pioneering a new Paradigm in AI
    keyword : Self-Organization, Artificial Intelligence
    2021.04~2025.04.
  • Learning Internal Representations Robust against Adversarial Attacks
    keyword : Adversarial Machine Learning
    2020.04~2022.04.
  • Perceptual Deep Neural Networks
    keyword : Adversarial Machine Learning
    2020.04~2022.04.
  • Artificial General Intelligence, Cognitive Architecture;
    keyword : Artificial General Intelligence
    2016.11~2016.11.
  • Evolutionary Computation, Global Optimization;
    keyword : Evolutionary Computation
    2017.03~2017.03.
  • Machine Learning, (Deep) Neural Networks, Neuroevolution;
    keyword : (Deep) Neural Networks
    2017.03~2017.03.
  • Applications in Cybersecurity, Robotics, Economic dispatch, Brain Science, Medicine, etc.
    keyword : Cybersecurity, Robotics, Economic dispatch, Brain Science, Medicine,
    2017.03~2017.03.
Academic Activities
Books
1. Steven Van Uytsel, Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas,
Autonomous Vehicles: Business, Technology and Law (Perspectives in Law, Business and Innovation)
, Springer, 2021.01.
Papers
1. D. V. Vargas, T. Asabuki, Continual General Chunking Problem and SyncMap, AAAI 2021, 2020.12, Humans possess an inherent ability to chunk sequences into their constituent parts. In fact, this ability is thought to bootstrap language skills and learning of image patterns which might be a key to a more animal-like type of intelligence. Here, we propose a continual generalization of the chunking problem (an unsupervised problem), encompassing fixed and probabilistic chunks, discovery of temporal and causal structures and their continual variations. Additionally, we propose an algorithm called SyncMap that can learn and adapt to changes in the problem by creating a dynamic map which preserves the correlation between variables. Results of SyncMap suggest that the proposed algorithm learn near optimal solutions, despite the presence of many types of structures and their continual variation. When compared to Word2vec, PARSER and MRIL, SyncMap surpasses or ties with the best algorithm on 66% of the scenarios while being the second best in the remaining 34%. SyncMap's model-free simple dynamics and the absence of loss functions reveal that, perhaps surprisingly, much can be done with self-organization alone..
Membership in Academic Society
  • IEEE
Educational
Educational Activities
2021
(IUPE)Programming Practice I
(IUPE)Programming Methodology Ⅰ
 Information Science (English)
Hardware Experiments

2020
学部
 情報論理学(日本語)
 Information Science (English)

2018, 2019
学部
情報科学 [単独] (英語)
大学院修士課程
Algorithms and the Law [分担] (英語)
Other Educational Activities
  • 2020.01, Adversarial Machine Learning: On The Deeper Secrets of Deep Learning
    Conference: IJCAI 2020
    (Tutorial in Top Conference).
  • 2020.07, Adversarial Machine Learning: On The Deeper Secrets of Deep Learning
    Conference: WCCI 2020
    (Tutorial in Top Conference).
  • 2018.07, Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning: General Models and Adaptation
    Conference: GECCO 2018
    (Tutorial in Top Conference).
  • 2018.07, Introducing Learning Classifier Systems: Rules that Capture Complexity
    Conference: GECCO 2018
    (Tutorial in Top Conference).
Social
Professional and Outreach Activities
To promote interest in AI research and development, I am creating an autonomous drone competition.
I plan to create multiple projects with and/or within companies tackling SDGs.
My recently created company is tackling at least 5 SDGs directly and I hope to help create much more socio-economical impact as well as a healthy entrepreneurship ecosystem..