Scholar
Ryo Masumura
Google Scholar ID: BtN8dP8AAAAJ
Distinguished Research Scientist, NTT Corporation
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,377
H-index
20
i10-index
41
Publications
20
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- He has received several awards including the Student Award and the Awaya Kiyoshi Science Promotion Award from the Acoustic Society of Japan (ASJ) in 2011 and 2013, the Best Paper Prize from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2011, the Yamashita SIG Research Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) in 2014, the Young Researcher Award from the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP) in 2015, and the ISS Young Researcher’s Award in Speech Field from the Institute of Electronic, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) in 2015.
Research Experience
- Since joining NTT in 2011, he has been engaged in research on speech recognition, spoken language processing, and natural language processing. He has worked at NTT East-Aomori OJT, NTT Cyberspace Laboratories, and NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories' Audio, Speech, and Language Media Laboratory as well as Cognitive Information Processing Laboratory.
Education
- He received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 2009, 2011, and 2016 respectively. During his Ph.D. studies (2015.04-2016.09), he was supervised by Prof. Ito Nose at the Ito Laboratory.
Background
- His research interests include Automatic Speech Recognition, Spoken Dialogue System, Spoken Language Processing, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning. He is a distinguished research scientist at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT).
Miscellany
- He is a member of multiple professional organizations such as the IPSJ, ASJ, NLP, IEEE, and ISCA.
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