Research keywords (8)：
Comparative Political Economy
, Political Methodology
, Machine Learning
, 制度論
, Japanese Politics
, 政府企業間関係
, 政治と財政
, 官僚制
Research theme for competitive and other funds (2)：
2024 - 2027 AI・機械学習手法を用いた説明可能な政治予測モデルの開発
2014 - 2018 Political Economic Transition and Output Loss: Panel Data Analysis.
Papers (19)：
B. Ahsan, S. Kato, T. Nakanishi, R. Okada, I. Yoshimoto. Uncovering black box prediction models using explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). A paper accepted and presented at Annual Meeting, Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA). 2024
Hiroshi Okamoto, Iku Yoshimoto, Sota Kato, Budrul Ahsan, Shuji Shinohara. Testing the power-law hypothesis of the interconflict interval. Scientific Reports. 2023. 13. 1
Xuan Luo, Sota Kato, Asahi Obata, Budrul Ahsan, Ryotaro Okada, Takafumi Nakanishi. A Joint Scene Text Recognition and Visual Appearance Model for Protest Issue Classification. ICDAR 2023: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Intelligent Cross-Data Analysis and Retrieval. 2023. 32-36
Hiroshi Okamoto, Iku Yoshimoto, Sota Kato, Budrul Ahsan. A power-law approach to conflict prediction: Lewis Fly Richardson revisited. A paper accepted and presented at the Annual Meeting, Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA). 2023
OKAMOTO Hiroshi, YOSHIMOTO Iku, KATO Sota, AHSAN Budrul, SHINOHARA Shuji. Power law of the inter-conflict interval. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI. 2023. JSAI2023. 2P5GS1101-2P5GS1101
H. Kuroda, S. Kato. Background of Japan’s Unprecedented Monetary Easing & the Direction of Monetary Policy Hereafter (Interview with Haruhiko Kuroda, Former Governor of the Bank of Japan.). Japan Spotlight. 2024
- 2011 University of Michigan Department of Political Science
- 1999 Harvard University Graduate School of Business
- 1991 The University of Tokyo Faculty of Law
Work history (4)：
2020/04 - 現在 International University of Japan GLOCOM Professor
2016/04 - 現在 The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research Research Director
2006/04 - 2020/03 International University of Japan GLOCOM Professor
1991/04 - 2006/03 Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Indsutry (METI)
Committee career (2)：
2009/06 - 2014/03 Canon Institute of Global Strategy Senior Fellow
2006/06 - 2009/05 三井物産戦略研究所 主任研究員
Awards (4)：
2019/12 - IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT '19) The Best Paper Award Candidate "Topic variation detection method for detecting political business cycles"
2012/06 - The 24th Annual Meeting, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) The Best Paper Award "Valley of institutional change: Japanese political economy 1990-2005."
2002/02 - 朝日新聞社 第1回大佛次郎論壇賞奨励賞
2001/11 - 日本経済新聞社・日本経済研究センター 第43回日経・経済図書文化賞
Association Membership(s) (4)：
情報社会学会
, The Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
, American Political Science Association
, Midwest Poliitical Science Association (MPSA)
