{{short description|Japanese mathematician}} {{nihongo|'''Sumio Watanabe'''|渡辺 澄夫|Watanabe Sumio|extra=born 1959}} is a Japanese mathematician and engineer working in probability theory, applied algebraic geometry and Bayesian statistics. He is currently{{When|date=February 2023}} a professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology in the Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science.<ref>{{cite web|url =http://watanabe-www.math.dis.titech.ac.jp/users/swatanab/curr_vita.html|title = CV|accessdate=15 June 2018|last = Watanabe|first = Sumio}}</ref> He is the author of the text, Algebraic Geometry and Statistical Learning Theory, which proposes a generalization of Fisher's regular statistical theory to singular statistical models.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iapr.org/members/newsletter/Newsletter10-03/index_files/Page529.htm|author=N. Loménie|accessdate=15 June 2018|title=IAPR Newsletter: Review of Algebraic Geometry and Statistical Learning Theory}}</ref> {{Infobox scientist | name = Sumio Watanabe | image = <!--(filename only)--> | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = 31 March 1959 | birth_place = Nakano, Nagano, Japan | death_date = | death_place = | fields = Mathematics | workplaces = Tokyo Institute of Technology<br>Gifu University | alma_mater = Kyoto University <small>(M.S., 1984)</small><br>Tokyo Institute of Technology <small>(Ph.D., 1993)</small> | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = Watanabe-Akaike information criterion<br>singular statistical models | awards = Ichimura Prize for Science <small>(2006)</small><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sgkz.or.jp/prize/science/list/38.html|title=38th Past Awards List / Ichimura Prize Presentation|author=Ichimura Foundation for New Technology}}</ref> }}

==Books== * ''Mathematical Theory of Bayesian Statistics'', CRC Press, 2018, ISBN 9781482238068 * ''Algebraic Geometry and Statistical Learning Theory'', Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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==External links== * [https://www.msri.org/workshops/484/schedules/3868 Algebraic Geometrical Method in Singular Statistical Estimation]. Presentation at Algebraic Statistics Seminar, MSRI, December 17, 2008 (video)

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