Kentaro Inui
Scholar

Kentaro Inui

Google Scholar ID: 38_o3-kAAAAJ
MBZUAI, Tohoku University, RIKEN
natural language processingcomputational linguisticsLLM/LMM interpretability
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
5,712
 
H-index
38
 
i10-index
120
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
27
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Served in numerous leadership and editorial roles for top NLP conferences including ACL, EMNLP, and COLING (e.g., General Chair, Area Chair, Workshop Co-chair).
  • Chairperson, Association for Natural Language Processing, Japan (Mar 2022–present).
  • ACL Rolling Review (ARR) Action Editor (May 2021–present).
  • Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Natural Language Processing (Apr 2018–2019).
  • Member, Science Council of Japan (Jan 2018–present).
  • Director, NPO FactCheck Initiative Japan (Jun 2017–present).
  • Editor-in-Chief and Vice Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Information Processing (2013–2015).
  • Served multiple terms as Director for the Association for Natural Language Processing and the Information Processing Society of Japan.
Research Experience
  • Professor, Natural Language Processing Department, MBZUAI, UAE (Sep 2023–present).
  • Leader, Natural Language Understanding Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), Japan (Oct 2016–present).
  • Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan (Mar 2010–present).
  • Visiting Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Japan (Oct 2011–present).
  • Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Japan (Oct 2006–Mar 2018).
  • Visiting Researcher, University of Sussex, UK (Feb–Dec 2004).
  • Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Oct 2001–Feb 2010).
  • Associate Professor, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Kyushu Institute of Technology (Apr 1998–Mar 2002).
  • Research Associate, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Apr 1995–Mar 1998).
  • PRESTO Research Fellow, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (Oct 1998–Sep 2001).