Resume
Academic Achievements
- - Dec. 2023: Best Reviewer Award, ASRU 2023, IEEE
- - Aug. 2023: Outstanding Reviewer Award, INTERSPEECH 2023, ISCA
- - Mar. 2022: ASJ Activity Contribution Award, The Acoustical Society of Japan
- - Nov. 2021: MIT Tech Review, Innovators Under 35 Japan
- - Oct. 2021: Best Speech Enhancement Paper award, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) 2021
- - Jan. 2021: IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Japan Young Author Best Paper Award
- - Nov. 2020: DCASE 2020 Challenge Judges’ award
- - Jul. 2020: 1st place in DCASE 2020 Challenge Task 6 'Automated audio captioning'
- - Mar. 2020: The Telecom System Technology Award, The Telecommunication Advancement Foundation (TAF)
- - Mar. 2019: Itakura Prize Innovative Young Researcher Award, The Acoustical Society of Japan
- - Sep. 2017: The Awaya Prize Young Researcher Award, The Acoustical Society of Japan
- - Mar. 2015: IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award, Information Processing Society of Japan
- - Sep. 2013: FUNAI Best Paper Award, Information Processing Society of Japan
- - Sep. 2012: The 6th Student Presentation Award, The Acoustical Society of Japan
- - Feb. 2012: MEXT Science Inter College Award, MEXT of Japan (MEXT: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Research Experience
- - Nov. 2024 - Current: Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
- - Nov. 2022 - 2024: Senior Research Scientist at Google
- - Nov. 2020 - Oct. 2022: Research Scientist at Google
- - Apr. 2014 - Nov. 2020: Research Scientist at NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories
- - Sep. 2015 - Mar. 2016: Part-Time Lecturer of Digital Data Processing, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Hosei University, Japan
Education
- - Sep. 2017: Ph.D. degree in Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
- - Mar. 2014: M.S. degree, Hosei University, Japan
- - Mar. 2012: B.S. degree, Hosei University, Japan
Background
- - Research Interests: Speech Enhancement, Separation, and Restoration; Speech Synthesis; Anomaly Detection in Sounds; Machine Learning
- - Professional Field: Ph.D. in Engineering
- - Brief Introduction: Currently a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind.
Miscellany
- - Senior Member of IEEE
- - Member of the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)
- - Since 2021: A Councilor of the Acoustical Society of Japan
- - Organizer for several DCASE challenge tasks
- - 2019-2022: Representative of Students and Young Researchers Forum of The ASJ, Japan
- - 2017-2023: Member of Students and Young Researchers Forum of The ASJ, Japan