He has received numerous awards including induction into the SIGIR Academy (2023), DEIM 2020 Excellent Paper Award (second author), FIT 2020 Excellent Paper Award (first author), CSS 2019 Best Paper Award (fifth author), and ACM Distinguished Member (2018).
Research Experience
In 2007, he joined NewsWatch, Inc. as the director of the Natural Language Processing Lab. In 2009, he joined Microsoft Research Asia. He joined the Waseda faculty in 2013. He was Associate Dean (IT Strategies Division) from 2015 to 2017, and Department Head from 2017 to 2019. Since 2021, he has been serving as a senior associate editor/acting editor-in-chief of ACM TOIS.
Education
Joined Toshiba in 1993 and obtained a Ph.D from Waseda in 2000. From 2000 to 2001, he was supervised by the late Karen Sparck Jones at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, as a visiting researcher.
Background
A professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan. He is also a General Research Advisor of Naver Corporation, Korea (2021-), and a visiting professor at the National Institute of Informatics, Japan (2015-). He is an ACM distinguished member and an IPSJ Fellow. In 2023, he was inducted into the SIGIR Academy.
Miscellany
Besides his academic career, he is also a singer/songwriter with music available on YouTube.