The University of Tokyo

Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn

Specially Appointed Associate Professor working on graph algorithms, differential privacy, cryptographic algorithms, and combinatorial optimization.

Academic Profile

I am with the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at The University of Tokyo, and also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Information Science, the National Institute of Informatics, and the Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics.

Graph Algorithms Differential Privacy Cryptographic Algorithms Combinatorial Optimization Quantum Optimization

Current Work

Recent work focuses on privacy-preserving graph analysis, approximation algorithms, rank aggregation, sparse vector publication, and optimization methods for emerging computational models.

Courses

Courses cover algorithms, optimization, privacy, security, and quantum computation.

Approximation and Online Algorithms

Algorithmic techniques with applications to optimization problems.

Algorithms for Information Security and Privacy

Algorithmic foundations for security, privacy, and protected computation.

Network Optimizations

Optimization problems and algorithms arising from network structures.

Introduction to Quantum Computation

Basic models, algorithms, and ideas in quantum computation.

Organization and Community

I organize international activities at ICIST and serve the research community through program committees and reviewing.

International Programs

See the ICIST international exchange page for selected programs: International Exchange.

Professional Service

Reviewer for AISTATS 2026 and UAI 2026. Program Committee member for FIT 2024-2026.

Professional and Educational Experience

2015 - Present

Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo

Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Project Assistant Professor, and Assistant Professor. Teaching and research in discrete mathematics and algorithms.

2013 - 2015

Global Research Center for Big Data Mathematics, National Institute of Informatics

Project Researcher in JST ERATO Kawarabayashi Large Graph Project, Network Graph Theory and Optimization Group.

2012 - 2013

Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo

Project Researcher in the project "A Multifaceted Approach toward Understanding the Limitations of Computation."

2007 - 2012

Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo

Research student, master student, and doctoral student. Ph.D. thesis: "Generalized Analysis Methods for Efficiency of Representations on Scalar Multiplication."

2003 - 2007

Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University

Bachelor student. Senior thesis: "Minimum Weight Conversion for Polygonal Complex Number Representation."

Publication List

A complete publication list is available as a separate PDF.

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Get in Touch

Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo

vorapong@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp