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).