Yasuo Matsuyama

Who is Yasuo Matsuyama?

Yasuo Matsuyama is a researcher in machine learning and human-aware information processing. He is a professor of Waseda University in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering where he teaches and studies machine learning, signal processing and computing methodologies with their applications to multimedia processing, brain information processing, robotics and bioinformatics. Human-aware information processing is his target.

Matsuyama is known for the founder of the α-expectation-maximization algorithm which contains the expectation-maximization algorithm as its subset. The α-hidden Markov model estimation algorithm is also his invention. He is a co-inventor of the RapidICA.

His early contributions include stochastic modeling of neural spike trains and signal processing algorithms for data compression systems.