Dr. Makoto Yamada is a research scientist at Yahoo Labs. His research interests include machine learning and its application to natural language processing, signal processing, and computer vision. He has published numerous research articles in top venues within these fields, including the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Machine Learning Journal (MLJ), Neural Computation (NECO), NIPS, ICML, AISTATS, AAAI, IJCAI, CIKM, ICDM, and ECCV.