I’m Sho Otao, a second-year master’s student at Kashima Lab, Kyoto University.

Research Interest: Optimal transport, Natural language processing

Email: sho.otao★ml.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp / shou9014★gmail.com (Please replace ★ with @)

Publication

• Sho Otao, Makoto Yamada. A linear time approximation of Wasserstein distance with word embedding selection. EMNLP 2023 (Main) [paper]

Education

• Master of Informatics, Kyoto University, 2022/04 ~ Present
• Bachelor of Engineering, Kyoto University, 2018/04 ~ 2022/03 (GPA: 3.67 / 4.3)

Experiences

• Research Assistant, Kyoto University, 2022/04 ~ Present
• Research Internship, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, 2022/08 ~ 2022/09
• Machine Learning Engineer Internship, Rist, 2021/10 ~ 2022/03

Awards

• Superior Student Award, SICE, 2021

Skills

• Languages: Japanese (Native), English (TOEIC 835, 2020)
• Programming: Python, Dart (Flutter)