Scholar
Akira Taniguchi
Google Scholar ID: jtB7J0AAAAAJ
Ritsumeikan University
Citations & Impact
Citations
876
H-index
18
i10-index
26
Publications
20
Co-authors
8
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Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - December 2014: 2nd place, Ritsumeikan University Graduate School Research Proposal Contest AY2014
- - November 2015: SSI Excellence Paper Award, SICE Symposium on Systems and Information 2015 (SSI2015)
- - November 2015: SSI Promoting Research Award, SICE Symposium on Systems and Information 2015 (SSI2015)
- - March 2016: Third place, Finalist Award, Team 'Tanichu Cluster,' RoboCup Japan Open 2016 @Home Education League
- - October 2016: Research Encouragement Award, The Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
- - November 2017: Best Interactive Session (Finalist), International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR)
- - March 2018: Excellent Research Award, The Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
- - May 2018: WBAI Encouragement Award, Whole Brain Architecture Symposium
- - January 2023: Best Paper Award, The 2023 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII 2023)
- - May 3, 2023: RoboCup Research Award, RoboCup Japanese Regional Committee
- - September 12, 2023: HSR Community Research Encouragement Award, Intelligent Home Robotics Research Committee (The Robotics Society of Japan)
- - September 13, 2023: Research Encouragement Award, The Robotics Society of Japan
- - 2023: Best Conference Paper Finalist, 13th
Research Experience
- - May 2015 - March 2017: Research Assistant, Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University
- - April 2016 - July 2016: Visiting research student, Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems Research Group, Plymouth University, U.K.
- - April 2017 - March 2018: Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC2)
- - April 2018 - March 2019: Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD)
- - April 2019 - March 2022: Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
- - April 2022 - Present: Lecturer, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Education
- - March 2013: B.E. degree from Ritsumeikan University
- - March 2015: M.E. degree from the Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
- - March 2018: Ph.D. in Engineering from the Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
Background
- - Research Interests: Symbol Emergence in Robotics, Intelligent Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robot Learning, Brain-inspired AI
- - Main Research Theme: Spatial Concept and Lexical Acquisition by Robot Based on Probabilistic Generative Models
- - Notable Achievements: Proposed a nonparametric Bayesian spatial concept acquisition method, SpCoA, and developed an online learning algorithm, SpCoSLAM
