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
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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 – Present, 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
Internship
- Apr. 2002 – Jun. 2002 (3 months), Traineeship Researcher at Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories #2 (SLT)
Adviser: Dr. Genichiro Kikui
Research topics: Speech recognition (Recognition error detection and its recover - Jun. 2012 – Dec. 2012 (6 months): Visiting Researcher at Lehrstuhl für Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation (Man-Machine Communication Institute), Technische Universität München, (Technical University of Munich; TUM), Munich, Germany
Adviser: Prof. Gerhart Rigoll - Jul. 2014 – Aug. 2014 (41 days): Visiting Researcher at Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie (AGH University of Science and Technology), Krakow, Poland
Adviser: Associate Prof. Bogdan Kwolek - Jul. 2016 – Mar. 2017 (8 months): Visiting Researcher at Lehrstuhl für Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation (Man-Machine Communication Institute), Technische Universität München, (Technical University of Munich; TUM), Munich, Germany
Adviser: Prof. Gerhart Rigoll
