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Taura Laboratory
Overview
Taura laboratory is a research laboratory in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo.
Our main expertise is on parallel computing, distributed computing, system software, and programming languages. We are especially interested in high level parallel processing software, which makes the power of high performance computers much more accessible to domain scientists.
Introduction of Our Laboratory
For our current research topics, please refer to the Research section of this HP. Additionally, videos and documents used in past lab introductions can be accessed below.
Click to view past lab introduction materials
- May. 2025: Admission information session Research poster
- May. 2024: Admission information session Research slides
- May. 2023: Admission information session Research poster
- Jan. 2023: Poster for undergraduate lab assignment info session
- May. 2022: Admission information session (ICE)
- May. 2021: Admission information session (ICE)
- May. 2021: Student Presentations at Recent International Conferences
- User-level threads at PPoPP 2021 by Shumpei Shiina
- Parallel lexing (string processing) at IPDPS 2021 by Li Le
- Performance of Infiniband at ISPASS 2021 by Takuya Fukuoka; shorter version
- Feb. 2021: Recent research topics．
- Jan. 2021: Poster for the undergraduate thesis lab assignment briefing (pdf),(pptx),
- Nov. 2019: Introductory slides for the third-year student lab visit
- A column titled “Reinventing the Wheel and the Happiness of Researchers” (last page), published in the University of Tokyo’s in-house newsletter Kouhou No. 1499 (Aug. 2017). It discusses thoughts on research without focusing on technical details.
- Opening remarks in Digital Life Vol. 31 (Sep. 2018), the bulletin of the Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo, about academic work and the role of the IT Center.
News
2026
- 2026 May. 1: A paper written by Yoshihiro Izawa et al. during his undergraduate studies, titled “Steering at the Source: Style Modulation Heads for Robust Persona Control,” has been accepted to ICML2026.
- 2026 Mar. 25: Yoshihiro Izawa, an undergraduate student, received the Deen’s Award for Research. Additionally, undergraduate students Yoshihiro Izawa, Yuri Takigawa, and Yuki Maeda were awarded the Outstanding Graduation Thesis Award.
- 2026 Mar. 1: A paper by undergraduate student Yoshihiro Izawa, titled Steering at the Source: Style Modulation Heads for Robust Persona Control, has been accepted to an ICLR 2026 workshop.
- 2026 Jan. 13: A paper by postdoc Xiaohang Xu, titled MMTableBench: A Multi-level Multimodal Benchmark for Reasoning and Layout Complexity in Table QA, has been accepted to the WWW 2026 .
- 2026 Jan. 4: A paper by postdoc Xiaohang Xu, titled JiraiBench: A Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models’ Detection of Human Self-Destructive Behavior Content in Jirai Community, has been accepted to the EACL 2026 poster.
2025
- 2025 Dec. 18: Oral presentations by Sosuke Hosokawa and Yuki Maeda have been accepted to LATHC 2026.
- 2025 Nov. 30 - Dec. 6: Haotian Gao, a doctoral student, presented “How Different from the Past? Spatio-Temporal Time Series Forecasting with Self-Supervised Deviation Learning” at NeurIPS2025, in collaboration with Prof. Renhe Jiang.
- 2025 Nov. 25: Shohei Watanabe and Yoshihiro Izawa presented at Japanese Symposium on Open Large Language Models.
- 2025 Nov. 8: A paper co-authored by Taura and postdoc Xiaohang Xu, titled Importance-Aware Data Selection for Efficient LLM Instruction Tuning, has been accepted to AAAI 2026 oral.
- 2025 Nov. 8: A paper by postdoc Xiaohang Xu, titled Co-EPG: A Framework for Co-Evolution of Planning and Grounding in Autonomous GUI Agents, has been accepted to the AAAI 2026 poster.
- 2025 Oct. 7-10: Sosuke Hosokawa and Thitrin Sastarasadhit presented at ChapelCon 2025.
- 2025 Aug. 4-6: Junichiro Takahashi, a master’s course student, presented “a performance evaluation for machine learning in a cache-coherent heterogeneous computing environment” at SWoPP2025 and received the Outstanding Student Award.
- 2025 Jul. 20-24: A paper co-authored by Koshi Eguchi, Ryo Nakamura, and Yohei Kuga, titled “InterconnectLens: Enhancing Observability of Data Transfers in GPU Clusters,” has been accepted to PEARC25.
- 2025 Feb. 19: A paper co-authored by Taura and Takashi Hoshino (Cybouzu Lab), an alumnus of the Taura Lab, titled “Fairer and More Scalable Reader-Writer Locks by Optimizing Queue Management”, has been accepted to PPoPP 2025.
2024
- 2024 Dec. 12: A paper by Yuji Tone et al. has been accepted by AI2ASE 2025.
- 2024 Jun. 26: Shumpei Shiina won the IPSJ Computer Science Research Award for Young Scientists for his presentation at 2023-HPC-190.
- 2024 Mar. 21: Shumpei Shiina received a Dean’s award from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology for his doctoral dissertation, “Task Parallelism at Scale: Locality-Aware Scheduling and Global Address Space.”
- 2024 Mar. 7: Sou Morozumi won the Presentation Award at PPL 2024.
2023
- 2023 Nov. 14: Ryota Kobayashi won the Student Encouragement Award and Excellent Presentation Award at JSSST 2023.
- 2023 Oct. 31: Takato Hideshima won the IPSJ Computer Science Research Award for Young Scientists for his presentation at PRO-2022-2.
- 2023 Oct. 1: Shigeyuki Sato has moved from Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo to Associate Professor at the University of Electro-Communications.
- 2023 Jul. 28: Shumpei Shiina received the 2023 Yamashita SIG Research Award．
- 2023 Jun. 17: A paper, titled “Itoyori: Reconciling Global Address Space and Global Fork-Join Task Parallelism,” by Shumpei Shiina et al. has been accepted by SC 2023.
2022
- 2022 Dec. 8: A paper by Le Li et al., titled “Associative Operator Precedence Parsing: A Method To Increase Data Parsing Parallelism,” has been accepted by HPC Asia 2023.
- 2022 Oct. 23: A paper by Le Li et al., titled “SimdFSM: An Adaptive Vectorization of Finite State Machines for Speculative Execution,” has been accepted by PDCAT 2022.
- 2022 Jul. 28: A paper by Shumpei Shiina et al., titled “Improving Cache Utilization of Nested Parallel Programs by Almost Deterministic Work Stealing,” has been accepted by IEEE TPDS.
- 2022 Jul. 05: A paper by Shumpei Shiina et al., titled “Distributed Continuation Stealing is More Scalable than You Might Think,” has been accepted by IEEE Cluster 2022.
- 2022 Mar. 15: The paper “ComposableThreads: Rethinking User-level Threads with Composability and Parametricity in C++” published at Journal of Information Processing Vol.30 received the JIP Specially Selected Paper certificate.
- 2022 Jan. 12: A paper by Hideshima et al., titled “Cost-aware Programming on Page-based Distributed Shared Memory,” got accepted to IPSJ Transactions on Programming.