Background

Education

  • Mar. 2001, M.Eng degree granted by Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
    Adviser: Prof. Tadashi Kitamura and Prof. Keiichi Tokuda
    Research topics: Audio-visual speech synthesis
  • Mar. 2004, Ph.D degree granted by Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan.
    Adviser: Prof. Tadashi Kitamura and Prof. Keiichi Tokuda
    Research topics: Audio-visual speech synthesis, Singing voice synthesis

Employment

  • Apr. 2004 – Mar. 2007, Specially-appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan
    Adviser: Prof. Shigeki Sagayama
    Research topics: Development of anthropomorphic spoken dialogue agent toolkit, Speech synthesis, Hand writing recognition, Automatic Composition

  • 2007.4 – 2017.3, Assistant Professor at the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
    Adviser: Prof. Tadashi Kitamura
    Research topics: Sign language recognition, Sign language animation synthesis, Music information processing

  • 2017.4 – Present, Associate Professor at the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
    Research topics: Sign language recognition, Music information processing

Internship