Editorial board member for journals of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), The Association for Natural Language Processing, and IPSJ Journal (2013–2024)
Organizing roles in the Dialogue System Symposium (Symposium 6–15, 2015–2024), including Vice Chair (2024)
Steering/organizing committee member of JSAI SIG on Language, Speech, and Dialogue Processing (since 2016)
Program committee member for international conferences including SIGDIAL, ACL, IJCNLP, IEEE ICA, and iHAI (2012–2023)
Principal investigator or collaborator on numerous funded projects, including:
- 2024: KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (B) (collaborator): 'Meta-dialogue foundation models for understanding emotions in dialogue'
- 2024: Hayao Nakayama Foundation (PI): 'Development of game AI that adaptively cooperates through spoken dialogue'
- 2018: JSPS Challenging Research (Exploratory) (PI): 'Building game AI that delights users through skillful persuasion'
- 2016: JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) (PI): 'Acquiring values through dialogical approaches'
- 2015: Multiple projects on 'Werewolf AI' (PI or collaborator)
- 2011–2014: Multiple PI-led grants on statistical response selection for dialogue agents
Awards:
- Apr 2019: JSAI SIG Outstanding Paper Award
- Mar 2017: Hiroshima City University Faculty Research Award
- Nov 2016: IPSJ Journal/JIP Selected Paper; Jun 2016: JSAI2016 Best Paper Award
- Sep 2014: FAN Presentation Award at the 24th Intelligent Systems Symposium