Fellows
/Senior Distinguished
Researchers
/Distinguished
Researchers

Awards

• 2005 Best Student Paper Award Finalist at 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2005)
• 2005 20th Telecom System Technology Student Award, Telecommunications Advancement Foundation
• 2005 Yamashita Memorial Research Award, Information Processing Society of Japan
• 2007 Itakura Prize Innovative Young Researcher Award, Acoustical Society of Japan
• 2007 Dean's Award, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
• 2007 The 1st IEEE Signal Processing Society Japan Chapter Student Paper Award
• 2008 Awaya Prize Young Researcher Award, Acoustical Society of Japan
• 2009 IEEE Signal Processing Society 2008 SPS Young Author Best Paper Award
• 2011 IEICE ISS Young Researcher's Award in Speech Field
• 2017 Best Interaction Award at The Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU)
• 2018 The 33rd Telecom System Technology Award, The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (TAF)
• 2018 The Young Scientists' Prize of The Commendation for Science and Technology by The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
• 2020 AMiner 2020 AI2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention
• 2021 The 10th RIEC Award, Tohoku University

Academic Activities

• Associate Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (2015.03-)
• Associate Editor of IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (2016.04-)
• IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee Member (2019.01-)
• IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee Member (2017.01-)

Visiting Professor

• Adjunct Associate Professor at The University of Tokyo
• Adjunct Associate Professor at National Institute of Informatics
• Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Tsukuba

Keywords

• Speech and audio signal processing, audio source separation, speech analysis, conversion, and synthesis, machine learning, deep learning