I am a Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, Institute of Science Tokyo.
I belong to the Sakuma Laboratory and engage in research mainly on developing red-teaming infrastructure for large language model misalignment.
Education
- Institute of Science Tokyo (Apr 2023 - Mar 2026, enrolled as Tokyo Institute of Technology): Doctor of Engineering (Ph.D.). Graduate Major in Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing. Academy of Super Smart Society.
- University of Tsukuba (Apr 2021 - Mar 2023): Master of Engineering. Degree Programs in Systems and Information Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology.
- University of Tsukuba (Apr 2017 - Mar 2021): Bachelor of Engineering. College of Information Science, Major in Intelligent Information Media.
Work Experience
- Institute of Science Tokyo (Apr 2023 - Present): Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (JST K-program), School of Computing
- Ministry of Defense, Japan Self-Defense Forces (Jul 2023 - Present): Reserved 2nd Lieutenant (Cyber Defense)
- TelHi Inc. (Jan 2019 - Present): Head of Creative Business Division
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Apr 2024 - Mar 2026): Research Fellow DC2
- RIKEN, Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) (May 2021 - Mar 2026): Part-Time Researcher
- NEC Corporation (Aug 2023 - Sep 2023): Research Intern, Secure System Platform Research Laboratories
- University of Tsukuba (Apr 2023 - Aug 2023): Technical Assistant
- CYBERDYNE Inc. (Oct 2020 - Mar 2023): Web Developer
- AVILEN Inc. (Jul 2020 - Mar 2024): Internship
- Feedal Inc. (Apr 2019 - Apr 2021): Director, Chief Experience Officer (CxO)
Publications
Journal
- Daiki Nishiyama, Kazuto Fukuchi, Youhei Akimoto, and Jun Sakuma. “CAMRI Loss: Improving the Recall of a Specific Class
without Sacrificing Accuracy.” IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E106-D, No.4, pp.523-537, April 2023. [link]
Conference (Peer-reviewed)
- Daiki Nishiyama, Hiroaki Miyoshi, Noriaki Hashimoto, Koichi Ohshima, Hidekata Hontani, Ichiro Takeuchi, and Jun Sakuma. Explainable classifier for malignant lymphoma subtyping via cell graph and image fusion. Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2025, LNCS 15971, pages 320–330. Springer Nature Switzerland, September 2025. [link]
- Daiki Nishiyama, Kazuto Fukuchi, Youhei Akimoto, and Jun Sakuma, “CAMRI Loss: Improving Recall of a Specific Class without
Sacrificing Accuracy.” 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), IEEE, No. 503,
July 2022. [link]
Domestic Conference (Non-refereed)
- Naoki Kitano, Daiki Nishiyama. “Sentence Pattern Definition and Pattern-Based Method for Extracting Official Names and Abbreviations in Definition and Abbreviation Clauses for Improving Readability of Legal Texts,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2025), B6-5, pp.2243-2248, Nagasaki, March 2025. [link]
- Rei Nagaike, Daiki Nishiyama, Youhei Akimoto, Kazuto Fukuchi, Jun Sakuma. “Adversarial Attacks on Hidden Tasks in Multi-Task Learning,” 2024 Symposium on Cryptography and Information Security (SCIS2024), IEICE, January 2024.
- Daiki Nishiyama, Kazuto Fukuchi, Youhei Akimoto, Jun Sakuma. “Training Classifiers to Improve Recall of a Specific Class without Accuracy Degradation,” 37th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, No. 3D1-GS-2-03, Kumamoto, June 2023. [link]
- Daiki Nishiyama, Kazuto Fukuchi, Youhei Akimoto, Jun Sakuma. “Training Classifiers to Improve Recall of a Specific Class Using Additive Angular Margin Loss,” 44th Research Meeting on Information-Theoretic Learning Theory and Machine Learning, IEICE, No. 5, Online, January 2022. [link]
- Daiki Nishiyama, Kazuto Fukuchi, Youhei Akimoto, Jun Sakuma. “Class-Sensitive Loss: Improving the Recall of a Particular Class without Sacrificing Accuracy.” 24th Workshop on Information-Theoretic Learning Theory, IEICE, No. 100, Online, November 2021.
Invited Talks
- Daiki Nishiyama, Hiroaki Miyoshi, Noriaki Hashimoto, Koichi Ohshima, Hidekata Hontani, Ichiro Takeuchi, Jun Sakuma. “Statistical Feature Analysis Based on Cells and Explainable Classification Model in Pathological Image Classification of Malignant Lymphoma,” 6th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Medical AI Society, June 2024.
Preprint
- Daiki Nishiyama, Hiroaki Miyoshi, Noriaki Hashimoto, Koichi Ohshima, Hidekata Hontani, Ichiro Takeuchi and Jun
Sakuma. “Explainable Classifier for Malignant Lymphoma Subtyping via Cell Graph and Image Fusion.” arXiv preprint
arXiv:2503.00925 (2025). [link]
- Yu Zhe, Rei Nagaike, Daiki Nishiyama, Kazuto Fukuchi, Jun Sakuma, “Adversarial Attacks on Hidden Tasks in Multi-Task
Learning.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.15244, 2024. [link]
- Daiki Nishiyama, Kazuto Fukuchi, Youhei Akimoto, Jun Sakuma, “CAMRI Loss: Improving Recall of a Specific Class without
Sacrificing Accuracy.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.10920, 2022. [link]
Research Projects
- Daiki Nishiyama, “Reliable Classification Model for Explaining Relationships between Objects in Images”. Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science, Research Fellowship for Young Scientists 24KJ1049,
2024-2026. [link]
Awards
- Tokyo Tech Tsubame Scholarship for Doctoral Students (2023)
- Program Leader Award, Degree Programs in Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba (2023)
- Special Program Leader Award, Degree Programs in Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba (2022)
- enPiT Excellence Award, Joint Presentation by University of Tsukuba and University of the Ryukyus (2021)
- Program Leader Award, College of Information Science, University of Tsukuba (2021)
- Winner, 1st TDK Presents Student Innovation Battle (2020)
- Best Award, T-ACT 2019 First Half (2019)
Skills and Certifications
- Registered Information Security Specialist (2023)
- Middle School Teaching License (Mathematics and Information) (2021)
- High School Teaching License (Mathematics and Information) (2021)
- CG Engineer Certification (Expert) (2018)
- Email: nishiyama.d.ac[at]m.titech.ac.jp
- Address: E-904, West Building 8, Institute of Science Tokyo, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan