Akira Taniguchi's Website

Education & Experience

• 2013. 3    B.E. degree from Ritsumeikan University

• 2015. 3    M.E. degree from the Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University

• 2018. 3    Ph.D. Engineering degree from the Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University

• 2015. 5 - 2017. 3    Research Assistant, Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University

• 2016. 4 - 2016. 7    Visiting research student, Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems Research Group, Plymouth University, U.K.

• 2017. 4 - 2018. 3    Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC2)

• 2018. 4 - 2019. 3    Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD)

• 2019. 4 - 2022. 3    Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

• 2022 .4 -                      Lecturer, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Awards

• Award 2nd place, Ritsumeikan University Graduate School Research Proposal Contest AY2014. (2014.12)

• SSI Excellence Paper Award, SICE Symposium on Systems and Information 2015 (SSI2015). (2015.11)

• SSI Promoting Research Award, SICE Symposium on Systems and Information 2015 (SSI2015). (2015.11)

• Third place, Finalist Award, Team "Tanichu Cluster," RoboCup Japan Open 2016 @Home Education League. (2016.3)

• Research Encouragement Award, The Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University. (2016.10)

• Best Interactive Session (Finalist), International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR). (2017.11)

• Excellent Research Award, The Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University. (2018.3)

• WBAI Encouragement Award, Whole Brain Architecture Symposium. (2018.5)

• Best Paper Award, The 2023 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII 2023). (2023.1)

• RoboCup Research Award, RoboCup Japanese Regional Committee. (2023.5.3) [Link]

• HSR Community Research Encouragement Award, Intelligent Home Robotics Research Committee (The Robotics Society of Japan). (2023.9.12)

• Research Encouragement Award, The Robotics Society of Japan. (2023.9.13)

• Best Conference Paper Finalist, 13th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL). (2023.11.10)

• Competitive Paper Award, 14th International Conference on Smart Computing and Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2023-Winter). (2023.12.11-13)

• Special Committee Award, The 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2024). (2024.3.11-15)

• RoboCup Research Award, RoboCup Japan Committee. (2024.4.29)

• Excellent Research and Technology Award, The Robotics Society of Japan. (2024.9.5)

• Best Paper Award (Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award), 2024 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). (2024.10.8)

• Best Paper Award, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC2024). (2024.12.13)

• HSR Community Outstanding Presentation Award, Intelligent Home Robotics Research Committee (The Robotics Society of Japan). (2025.9.3)

• Advanced Robotics Best Paper Award, "Active exploration based on information gain by particle filter for efficient spatial concept formation", The Robotics Society of Japan. (2025.9.4)

Grants

• Research Grant (C) from Tateishi science and technology foundation. PI (2016-2017)

• JST AIP Network Laboratory, 2016 (H28) AIP challenge. PI (2016.10-2017.3)

• JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow. PI (2017-2018)

• JST AIP Network Laboratory, 2017 (H29) AIP challenge. PI (2017.8-2018.3)

• JST AIP Network Laboratory, AIP challenge PRISM. PI (2018.8-2019.3)

• JST AIP Network Laboratory, 2019 AIP challenge. PI (2019.8-2020.3)

• JSPS, KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists. PI (2020-2022)

• JSPS, KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A). Co-investigator (2021-2025)

• JSPS, KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A). Co-investigator (2022-2026)

• JSPS, KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists. PI (2023-2025)

Activity

• Attendance, 29th MACHINE LEARNING SUMMER SCHOOL (MLSS), Kyoto University, Japan, 2015. 

• A team member, "Tanichu Cluster", RoboCup Japan Open 2016 @Home Education League, March 2016.

• A team member, "Duckers", RoboCup Japan Open 2017 @Home Domestic Standard Platform League, May 2017. 

• Organized Session (co-organizer), OS-37 "Symbol Emergence in Robotics", The 31st  Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2017), May 2017.

• Presentation, 2016 Ritsumeikan University Graduate School Doctoral Program, International Research Activity Promotion Research Fund Research Achievement Report Meeting, Ritsumeikan University, June 2017. 

• Presentation, BKC Rice Bowl Seminar 2017, Ritsumeikan University, June 2017. 

• A team member, "Duckers", RoboCup2017 Nagoya Japan @Home Domestic Standard Platform League, July 2017. 

• Attendance, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “AI & BRAIN” Summer School, August 2017. 

• Presentation, The 103rd IEEE Kansai Section Lecture Meeting, "Home robotics application of machine learning", Ritsumeikan University, July 2018. 

• Attendance, Summer School 2018 of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, August 2018. 

• Attendance, Spring School on "Social and Artificial Intelligence for User-Friendly Robots" (SoAIR2019), March 2019. 

• A member of the editorial board (64-65th), The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, May 2020 -. 

• Organized Session (co-organizer), "Data Engineering Robotics and Probabilistic Robotics", The annual conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ), 2020-2023. 

• Review Editor on the Editorial Board for the section Robot Learning and Evolution in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, May 2021 -.

• Topic Editor, Research Topic "Constructive Approach to Spatial Cognition in Intelligent Robotics", Frontiers in Robotics and AI / Neurorobotics, 2021.

• Presentation, WBA lecture, November 2021 and December 2022.

• Presentation, Workshop by Technical Committee on Neurocomputing (NC), March 2022.

• Presentation, Study Group on Language and Robotics, October 2022.

• Organized Session (co-organizer), Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2023.

• Editorial and Review Board on Advanced Robotics, April 2023 -. [LINK]

• Program Committee Member, 15th International Conference on Smart Computing and Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2024) in IIAI AAI 2024, 2024.

• Technical Committee on Cognitive Robotics and Robot Learning in IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, April 2024.

• Organized Session (co-organizer), Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2024.

• Organizer,  IJCNN 2024 Workshop "Towards Realizing Whole-Brain Computational Models Guided by Cognitive Models (WBCM-CogM)," in IEEE WCCI 2024, 30 June 2024. [LINK]

• Special Issue Proposal,  The Journal "Advanced Robotics" for a Special Issue on "Spatial Reasoning and Semantic Understanding for Robotics",  Advanced Robotics, Robotics Society of Japan, September 2025. [CFP] (Manuscript deadline 31 March 2026)

Contact

• Email : a.taniguchi ＠ em.ci.ritsumei.ac.jp

• Facebook ID: akira.taniguchi.37b

• Address :

  • Lab.: H706, Faculty room: H7005, (Mail to H705)
    H705, College of Information Science and Engineering, Building H, Osaka Ibaraki Campus, Ritsumeikan University, 2-150 Iwakura-cho, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-8570 Japan