Hiroyoshi “Hiro” Yamasaki

MA Cognitive Science (Aix-Marseille University), BA Slavonic Studies (Heidelberg University)

Hi, Iโ€™m Hiro!

I am a Cognitive Scientist with specialisation in use of Machine Learning algorithms to analyse neural data. I am interested in both biological and artificial cognitive systems.


Education

Sep. 2020 โ€“ Aug. 2022

Note (M1): 16.7 / 20 ( = 1.0 in the German system)

Note (M2): (provisional) 17 / 20 ( = 1.0 in the Germany system)

Masterโ€™s Thesis: Noun and Verb Decoding Gives Insight into the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Sentential Meaning Construction

Aug. 2018 โ€“ Aug. 2019

Cognitive science 1, scientific programming, vision and image processing, language processing 1

Aug. 2013 โ€“ Aug. 2016

Grade: 1.1

Specialisation: Russian, Ukrainian, Czech linguistics

Sep. 2009 โ€“ Aug. 2010

Mathematical analysis, Linear algebra, Physics, Programming (C++), Numerical methods


Skills

Programming Languages

Fluent
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Beginner

Languages

Native
Fluent (C2)
Fluent (C1)
Fluent (C1)
Fluent (C1)
Fluent (C1)
Proficient (B2)

Miscellaneous

SQL, AWS (Parallel Cluster), HPC (Slurm), Android Studio, Qt, Cuda, OpenCL, OpenGL, HTML, CSS, Arduino, Unreal Game Engine


Experiences

Jan. 2022 โ€“ Jun. 2022

Magnetoencephalography data analysis with Machine Learning algorithms

Jan. 2021 โ€“ Jun. 2021

Research topic: “Should Cognitive Scientists Start with the Brain?”

Oct. 2016 โ€“ Mar. 2017

Digitisation of documents