Shun'ichi Amari

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Shun'ichi Amari
甘利 俊一
Shun'ichi Amari
Born1936 (age 88–89)
Tokyo, Japan
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
Known forInformation Geometry
Amari distance
AwardsIEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1997)
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience
InstitutionsRIKEN

Shun'ichi Amari (甘利 俊一, Amari Shun'ichi), is a Japanese engineer and neuroscientist born in 1936 in Tokyo, Japan.

Overviews

He majored in Mathematical Engineering in 1958 from the University of Tokyo then graduated in 1963 from the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo.

His Master of Engineering in 1960 was entitled Topological and Information-Theoretical Foundation of Diakoptics and Codiakoptics. His Doctor of Engineering in 1963 was entitled Diakoptics of Information Spaces.

Shun'ichi Amari received several awards and is a visiting professor of various universities.

He is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed articles[1] and is best known for developing Information Geometry. He also independently invented the Hopfield network in 1972,[2] a form of self-organized recurrent neural network.

He is currently holding a position of the RIKEN lab and is vice-president of Brain Science Institute, director of Brain Style Information Systems Group and team leader of Mathematical Neuroscience Laboratory.[3]

He was a winner of the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1997)[4]

Key works

  • A Geometrical Theory of Information (in Japanese), Kyoritsu, 1968
  • Information Theory (in Japanese), Daiamondo-sha, 1971
  • Mathematical Theory of Nerve Nets (in Japanese), Sangyotosho, 1978
  • Methods of Information Geometry,[5] in collaboration with Hiroshi Nagaoka, originally published in Japanese in 1993 and published in English in 2000 with the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ Amari Shun'ichi's publication page at RIKEN Brain Science Institute
  2. ^ Amari, Shun-Ichi (1972). "Learning patterns and pattern sequences by self-organizing nets of threshold elements". IEEE Transactions. C (21): 1197–1206.
  3. ^ Amari Shun'ichi's curriculum page at RIKEN Brain Science Institute
  4. ^ "IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 24, 2010. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
  5. ^ Methods of Information Geometry, Oxford University Press 2000