CV
Contact Information
| Name | Yutaro Yamada |
| Professional Title | Ph.D. Student in Information Science |
| yamada-yutaro-dw@ynu.jp | |
| Location | General Research Bldg., 79-7 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-0067 |
Education
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2026 - Current Yokohama, Japan
Ph.D.
Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University
Information Science
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2024 - 2026 Yokohama, Japan
Master
Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University
Information Science
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2020 - 2024 Yokohama, Japan
Awards
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2026 FAN2026 Best Paper Award (FAN2026最優秀論文賞)
September 11, 2026
FAN2026 Organizing Committee
Received the Best Paper Award for the paper “Evaluating Large Language Models on Black-Box Optimization Word Problems” (Black-Box Optimization Word Problems における大規模言語モデルの評価) presented at FAN 2026 (The 34th Intelligent System Symposium).
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2026 EvoStar 2026 Outstanding Student
April 10, 2026
The SPECIES Society
Recognized for the outstanding work presented in the paper “Weight Adaptation for Improving Parallel Performance of Adaptive Stochastic Natural Gradient” at EvoStar 2026.
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2026 Dean's Award for Outstanding Research
March 25, 2026
Dean of the Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University
Awarded for outstanding achievements in academic research activities during the Master’s program.
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2026 Silver Medal: The 4th Kusen (air combat) AI Challenge
January 19, 2026
SIGNATE
Achieved a silver medal in the 4th Kusen AI Challenge (placed 8th out of 61 teams). The task in this competition was to develop an AI agent for fighter aircraft by reinforcement learning.
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2025 Bronze Medal: NeurIPS 2025 - Google Code Golf Championship
October 31, 2025
Kaggle
Achieved a bronze medal in the Google Code Golf Championship at NeurIPS 2025 (placed 88th out of 1,142 teams). The task in this competition was to write the shortest possible Python code that could correctly solve 400 problems in ARC-AGI-1 dataset.
Publications
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Please see the publications page for details.
Skills
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Black-box Optimization, Evolutionary Computation