Recipient of several awards including the 2006 IEEE Kansai Branch Student Paper Award, 2006 ASJ Sato Paper Award, 2015 IEEE ASRU Best Paper Award Honorable Mention, and 2016 ASJ Awaya Young Researcher Award. Senior member of IEEE and member of ASJ. Organized the REVERB challenge and workshop 2014 and ASRU 2017. Senior affiliate at the 2015 Jelinek summer workshop. Gave tutorials on distant speech recognition at Interspeech 2016 and APSIPA 2016, and was an invited speaker at GlobalSIP 2015.
Research Experience
Joined NTT Communication Science Laboratories as a research associate in 2007 and became a permanent research scientist in 2012. Visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo since 2015, teaching information theory. Involved in the development of NTT's robust speech recognition systems for the REVERB, CHiME 1 and 3 challenges.
Education
Received an M.Eng. from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and Ecole Centrale Paris (France) in 2003; Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, in 2007.
Background
Senior Research Scientist at the Signal Processing Research Group, Media Information Laboratory, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. Research interests include robust multi-microphone speech recognition, acoustic model adaptation, integration of speech enhancement front-end and recognition back-end, speech enhancement, and speech dereverberation.