Journal articles: 'Category Locality Theory: A unified account of locality effects in language comprehension' (2024); 'Pre-verb reactivation of arguments in sentence processing' (2023). Proceedings: 'If Attention Serves as a Cognitive Model of Human Memory Retrieval, What is the Plausible Memory Representation?' (ACL 2025, to appear); 'Modeling Japanese EEG data with CCG' (NLP2025, Nagasaki, Japan). Conference committee special award. Theses: 'Syntactic processing as dynamic logical inference under resource limitations' (2025, PhD Thesis, University of Tokyo); 'On Processing and Representation of Verbs and Their Arguments' (2022, Master Thesis, University of Tokyo). Awards: The First National High School Memorial Award (twice), Best presentation award, etc. Grants: Grants-in-Aid for JSPS fellows (DC2) FY 2022-2024.
Research Experience
Assistant Professor at NINJAL, conducting research on language comprehension.
Education
PhD, University of Tokyo, 2025; MA, University of Tokyo, 2022; Bachelor of Law, University of Tokyo, 2015; Exchange student, University of Toronto, 2013-2014.
Background
Assistant Professor at NINJAL in Tokyo, Japan. Studies language comprehension in humans using a combination of theoretical, experimental, and computational approaches. Keywords: Language comprehension, working memory, syntax, categorial grammars.