Recipient of 76 awards, including the Tenth Japan Academy Medal, Tenth JSPS PRIZE, DoCoMo Mobile Science Awards 'Excellence Award in Fundamental Science', Ichimura Prize in Science for Distinguished Achievement, Funai Achievement Award, and the MEXT Commendation for Science and Technology 'Young Scientists' Prize'
Classical Test-of-Time Award at ISMIR 2025 on September 25, 2025
40th Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Award (Telecom Interdisciplinary Research Award) on March 28, 2025 for the paper 'Lyric App Framework: A Web-based Framework'
Developed notable systems: Songle, Songrium, TextAlive, Kiite, VocaListener, VocaWatcher
Keynote speaker at DAFx 2019, IWSC 2012, and other international conferences
Research Experience
Researcher at Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), April 1998 – March 2001
Researcher at PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), October 2000 – September 2003
Professor (Cooperative Graduate School Program), University of Tsukuba, since April 2005 (Associate Professor until December 2015)
Visiting Professor at The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, since April 2008 (Visiting Associate Professor until March 2009)
Project Manager of MITOU Program by IPA, May 2009 – March 2017
Research Supervisor (Program Officer) of ACT-I by JST, June 2016 – March 2022
Program Officer of FOREST program by JST, since August 2023
Guest Professor at Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, since April 2025