Mar 2025: Best Presentation Award at the 13th AAMT Seminar for Young Translation Research Group
May 2024: Nagao Award (Student Encouragement Award) from AAMT (co-advised student: Zhuoyuan Mao)
May 2023: Nagao Award (Student Encouragement Award) from AAMT (co-advised student: Yuting Zhao)
Mar 2023: Young Researcher Encouragement Award, The Association for Natural Language Processing (ANLP), Japan
Apr 2022: Google Research Scholar Award for 'Visual Scene-Aware Machine Translation'
Mar 2022: Two Committee Special Awards at the 28th Annual Meeting of ANLP, Japan
Dec 2019: Jinmoncom 2019 Best Poster Award, IPSJ SIG Computers and the Humanities
2019: MSRA Collaborative Research Grant Award
Jun 2018: Nagao Award from AAMT for 'Practical Application Project of Japanese-Chinese Machine Translation'
Serves on multiple academic committees, including Board Member of AAMT and ANLP, and Steering Committee Member of IPSJ SIG-NL
Research Experience
Jul 2025 – Present: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Jul 2020 – Jun 2025: Program-Specific Associate Professor, Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Apr 2017 – Jun 2020: Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Datability Science, Osaka University
Apr 2015 – Mar 2017: Researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
Apr 2014 – Mar 2015: Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science