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Associate professor
Graduate School of Informatics
Kyoto University
Contact: ellen at i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

  Awards / Honors

2026

Fellow of the Operations Research Society of Japan.

2025

15th Best Paper Award, for "Monotonicity for multiobjective accelerated proximal gradient methods" (with Y. Nishimura and Y. Yamashita) published in Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan - Operations Research Society of Japan.

2024

Best Paper Award, for "Convergence rates analysis of multiobjective proximal
gradient method" (with H. Tanabe and Y. Yamashita) - Optimization Letters.

2024

14th Research Award, for outstanding research in Operations Research
- Operations Research Society of Japan.

2024

16th Tachibana Award, for outstanding women researchers
(researcher category) - Kyoto University.

2015

5th Research Encourage Award, for a promising young researcher in
Operations Research - Operations Research Society of Japan.

2012

Best Ph.D. Thesis 2011, in Applied Mathematics at University of São Paulo
- University of São Paulo.

2007

Odelar Leite Linhares Prize, for the best master dissertation of the year in Brazil
- Brazilian Society of Computational and Applied Mathematics.

2006

2nd Place in XI ACM South American Programming Contest, São Paulo regional
- ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.


  Grants / Fellowships / Scholarships


As the principal investigator:

Apr, 2025 - Mar, 2029:

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C),
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP25K15002]

Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2025:

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C),
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP19K11840]

Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2020:

Open Collaborative Research Program,
National Institute of Informatics
(Co-PI: Megumi Kaneko)

Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2019:

Promoted Research Activity Funds,
The Kyoto University Foundation

Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2019:

Open Collaborative Research Program,
National Institute of Informatics
(Co-PI: Megumi Kaneko)

Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2018:

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Young Scientists (B),
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP26730012]

Oct, 2013 - Mar, 2014:

Research Funds for Young Scientists (Start-Up),
Kyoto University

Apr, 2011 - Sep, 2013:

Postdoctoral fellowship,
The State of São Paulo Research Foundation

Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2013:

Research internships abroad,
The State of São Paulo Research Foundation

Sep, 2007 - Feb, 2011:

Ph.D. student scholarship,
The State of São Paulo Research Foundation

Mar, 2007 - Aug, 2007:

Ph.D. student scholarship,
Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel

Mar, 2005 - Feb, 2007:

M.Sc. student scholarship,
Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel

Aug, 2004 - Jan, 2005:

Undergraduate research scholarship,
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development


As a collaborator:

Apr, 2025 - Mar, 2029:

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B),
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP25K03082]
(PI: Nobuo Yamashita, Co-I: Hiroyuki Sato)

Oct, 2022 - Sep, 2026:

Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research
(Fostering Joint International Research (B)),
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP22KK0156]
(PI: Megumi Kaneko, Co-I: Kaito Fujii)

Feb, 2019 - Jan, 2022:

Chamada CNPq Universal (Brazil),
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
(PI: Benar F. Svaiter)

Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019:

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C),
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JP16K07645]
(PI: Andre F. Cruz)


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