‘But bravery isn’t important now’.

from EMPIRE OF THE SUN by J.G.BALLARD

Affliation

• 1st year Ph.D. student at OIST
• Email: yuji.kanagawa [at] oist.jp, yuji.kngw.80s.revive [at] gmail.com

Education

• 2019 - 2021: Department of General Systems Studies, The University of Tokyo (M.S. degree)
  • Recieved Ichiko Memorial Award (一高記念賞/Dean’s Award)
• 2017 - 2019: College of Arts and Science, The University of Tokyo (B.S. degree)
• 2015 - 2017: Human Sciences III, The University of Tokyo

Job Experiences

• 2019: Interned at Preffered Networks, Tokyo

Research interests

I’m interested in how environments have shaped us. I’m now preparing an evolutionary robotics approach for this purpose.

During my undergraduate and master’s study, my research focused on reinforcement learning (RL), a sub-area of artificial intelligence on agents that try to maximize some utility (called reward) in complex environments. I authored two papers about generalization and reward-free skill acquisition in RL.

Publications

• Diverse Exploration via InfoMax Options
  • Preprint
  • Presented at NeurIPS DeepRL Workshop 2020
  • Paper, Code
• Rogue-Gym: A New Challenge for Generalization in Reinforcement Learning
  • Presented at IEEE Conference on Games 2019
  • Paper, Environment code, Experiment code

OSS Projects

I am a fan of open sources and open communities since I met the Rust community during my undergraduate. I have continuosly contributed to some OSS projects, although I am not very active now. I received Google Open Source Peer Bonus for my contributions to PyO3.

See my Github account for more.

Some accounts

• Github: kngwyu
• Gitlab: kngwyu
• Twitter: kngwyu

Kanji

金川 裕司 (かながわ ゆうじ)

Links

Kaneko Lab

Game Programming Seminar

Blog (written in Japanese)

(Hopefully) Research Blog

Rustオンラインもくもく会

東大SF研