ABOUT ME

PROJECTS

Feign CSS Generator

All-in-one CSS generator for Feign+Discord.

TypeScript

Graph Gallery

Exhibition of graph visualizations.

Jekyll

Yay Filter

Browser extension that filters comments on YouTube.

Firefox Add-on

Chrome Extension

TypeScript

Shogi Playground

A mobile-friendly playground for shogi -- Japanese chess.

Article on ISM Magazine

Scala Scala.js

Shogi Playground Live!

An online arena for shogi players.
Scala Scala.js

Shogi Bot

Play shogi with your friends on Facebook Messenger.
Scala

Graph Playground

A playground for graph theorists.
Scala Scala.js

Easy Menu

A super simple terminal command launcher generator.
Python

Gerunds or Infinitives

A tool for learning English.
Scala.js Python



DISCOGRAPHY

The World to Be Born

Composed in 2006.

On the Far Side of the Sky

Composed in 2006.

Vision

Composed in 2011.

Prismatic

Composed in 2012.

Humangazer

Composed in 2013.



BLOGS

Blog at the U

My personal website at the University of Utah.
Tech Theory English

mog project

Tech blog.
Tech Japanese

mog project 2.0

English writing.
Essay English

Apocryphal English and Their Japanese Counterparts

L'homme n'est rien, l'oeuvre - tout.
Linguistics English



WORK

Research Assistant
University of Utah - Salt Lake City, UT, USA

PACE 2023 Twin-Width: 1st place in the Exact Track and Theory Award. Parameterized approaches to the inspection planning problem in robotics. Preprocessing "beyond kernelization" for the odd cycle transversal problem.

AUGUST 2020 - DECEMBER 2024

Researcher
NC State University - Raleigh, NC, USA

Conducted an independent research project on exact algorithms for solving one of the NP-hard graph problems, the independent domination set problem, under the supervision of Drs. Mattias Stallmann and Aissa Oudjit.

JANUARY 2020 - MAY 2020

Researcher
collaborated with The Institute of Statistical Mathematics - Tokyo, JAPAN

Processed and analyzed big data, including big graph structures, by using super computers.

AUGUST 2015 - DECEMBER 2015

Senior Vice President
Demand Side Science Inc. - Tokyo, JAPAN

Developed and delivered products for several customers in the online advertising industry. Our technologies include cloud computing, big-data processing, video ads, recommendation logic, and machine learning.

AUGUST 2013 - NOVEMBER 2015

Full-stack Engineer
Demand Side Science Inc. - Tokyo, JAPAN

Developed an online ad server with 10+ engineers from scratch. We successfully developed a scalable, high-performance system endurable for heavy traffic.

APRIL 2013 - AUGUST 2013

Chief Server Engineer
(IT Service Company) - Tokyo, JAPAN

Provided services to an insurance company.

APRIL 2008 - MARCH 2013

Server Engineer
(IT Service Company) - Tokyo, JAPAN

Provided services to a financial institution.

DECEMBER 2003 - MARCH 2008

Quality Assuarance Engineer
(Video Game Company) - Tokyo, JAPAN

2000 - 2003


EDUCATION

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Dissertation: Provably Powerful Parameterized Preprocessing Towards Practice
Advisor: Dr. Blair D. Sullivan

AUGUST 2020 - DECEMBER 2024

NC State University
Raleigh, NC, USA
B.S. in Computer Science (GPA: 4.0, Summa Cum Laude)
Minor in Mathematics

AUGUST 2017 - MAY 2020

NC State Prague
Prague, Czech
6 Week Course (GPA: 4.0)

  • Automata, Grammars, and Computability
  • Principles of Sociology

MAY 2019 - JUNE 2019

Bunker Hill Community College
Boston, MA, USA
(GPA: 4.0)

JANUARY 2017 - JULY 2017

New England School of English
Cambridge, MA, USA
(GPA: 4.0)
Academic / Business English - 1 Year Course

JANUARY 2016 - NOVEMBER 2016

Principles of Reactive Programming
Coursera (by Prof. Martin Odersky at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
8 Week Course

JANUARY 2014

Machine Learning
Coursera (by Prof. Andrew Ng at Stanford University)
8 Week Course

JANUARY 2014

Functional Programming Principles in Scala
Coursera (by Prof. Martin Odersky at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
8 Week Course

JUNE 2013

Musashi High School
Tokyo, JAPAN

APRIL 1998 - MARCH 2001



CERTIFICATIONS

TOEFL iBT
Test of English as a Foreign Language / Internet Based Test
99

JULY 2016

TOEFL PBT
Test of English as a Foreign Language / Paper Based Test
610

JULY 2016

MCP
Microsoft Certified Professional - Windows XP

DECEMBER 2007

CCNA
Cisco Certified Network Associate

SEPTEMBER 2004

Certified Class II Information Technology Engineer
A national examination under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

JUNE 2000

TopCoder
The world's largest computer programming competitions

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MAJOR TALKS

International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) 2024
Leveraging Fixed-Parameter Tractability for Robot Inspection Planning

OCTOBER 2024

International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC) 2023
Hydra Prime: A Twin-Width Solver for PACE 2023

SEPTEMBER 2023

Dagstuhl Seminar 23331: Recent Trends in Graph Decomposition
Approximate Modular Decomposition for Practical Graph Preprocessing

AUGUST 2023

SIAM Conference on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA) 2023
Clique Wrangler: Wrangling Gene Expression Data into Weighted Cliques (poster)

JUNE 2023

Joint Math Meetings (JMM) 2023
Information Loss in Weighted Hypergraph Line Graphs and Clique Expansions

JANUARY 2023

SIAM Workshop on Network Science (SIAM-NS) 2022
Minimizing Congestion for Balanced Dominators

SEPTEMBER 2022

International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC) 2022
Some Happy FPT Results: Improved Parameterized Complexity of Happy Set Problems

SEPTEMBER 2022

ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2022
Minimizing Congestion for Balanced Dominators

AUGUST 2022

International IBM Cloud Academy Conference (ICA CON) 2018
An Analysis of Abstract Texts of Academic Papers Using Watson Natural Language Understanding

MAY 2018

ISM High Performance Computing Conference
A Network Analysis for Relationship of Researchers based upon the Co-authored Information and Other Attributes on "Web of Science" using Apache Spark and GraphX

OCTOBER 2015

Scala Days 2015 San Francisco Unconference
Ad Tech x Scala x Performance Tuning

MARCH 2015



PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

A Space-Efficient Algebraic Approach to Robotic Motion Planning
Matthias Bentert, Daniel Coimbra Salomao, Alex Crane, Yosuke Mizutani, Felix Reidl, Blair D. Sullivan
SIAM Conference on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA25)

2025

Leveraging Fixed-Parameter Tractability for Robot Inspection Planning
Yosuke Mizutani, Daniel Coimbra Salomao, Alex Crane, Matthias Bentert, Pål Grønås Drange, Felix Reidl, Alan Kuntz, Blair D. Sullivan
International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR24)

2025

Preprocessing to Reduce the Search Space for Odd Cycle Transversal
Bart M. P. Jansen, Yosuke Mizutani, Blair D. Sullivan, Ruben F. A. Verhaegh
International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2024)

DECEMBER 2024

An Exponentially Smaller Kernel for Exact Weighted Clique Decomposition
Shweta Jain, Yosuke Mizutani, Blair D. Sullivan
SIAM Conference on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA23)

2023

PACE Solver Description: Hydra Prime
Yosuke Mizutani, David Dursteler, Blair D. Sullivan
International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2023)

2023

Minimizing Congestion for Balanced Dominators
Yosuke Mizutani, Annie Staker, Blair D. Sullivan
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD22)

2022

Parameterized Complexity of Maximum Happy Set and Densest k-Subgraph
Yosuke Mizutani, Blair D. Sullivan
International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2022)

2022

MAY 2017

MANUSCRIPTS

A Learning Framework for Twin-Width and Related Problems
Ryan O'Connor, Johannes Meintrup, Maximilian Huber, Alexander Leonhardt, Manuel Penschuck, Yosuke Mizutani, Oscar Yeoh, Deepak Ajwani

2025

Meta-analysis of metagenomes via machine learning and assembly graphs reveals strain switches in Crohn's disease
Taylor E. Reiter, Luiz Irber, Alicia A. Gingrich, Dylan Haynes, N. Tessa Pierce-Ward, Phillip T. Brooks, Yosuke Mizutani, Dominik Moritz, Felix Reidl, Amy D. Willis, Blair D. Sullivan, C. Titus Brown
Preprint

JULY 2022

SKILLS

Spoken Languages

Japanese

English

Chinese (Mandarin)

German

Spanish

Czech

Programming Languages

Scala

Python

C

C++

Java

Perl

JavaScript

TypeScript

Erlang

Haskell

PHP

Assembly

R

Octave

Lisp

VB Script

Shell Script

OS

Linux   MacOS   Windows   Solaris   HP-UX   AIX  

Frameworks

React   Unity   SFML   Spring Boot   Play Framework   Spark   Finagle   ScalaTest   Specs2   ScalaCheck  

Databases

MySQL   PostgreSQL   Redis   HBase   CouchBase   Neo4j   Amazon DynamoDB   Amazon Redshift   TreasureData   Oracle Database   Microsoft SQL Server  

Middleware

Nginx   Apache   WebLogic Server   Microsoft IIS   Fluentd   Hadoop  

DevOps

Ansible   Docker   Fabric   Vagrant   serverspec   Nagios   Zabbix   Amazon CloudWatch   HP OpenView Operations   Grafana   Git   Redmine   Jenkins  

CONTACT

Email

mogproj [at] gmail.com

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