Koh Mitsuda
Koh Mitsuda is an applied scientist who is passionate about natural language processing and dialogue systems, particularly chatbots. Since April 2023, he has been affiliated with rinna Co., Ltd. Previously, he worked as a researcher at NTT Labs. In 2021, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in engineering, specializing in dialogue systems, from the University of Tsukuba.
Email: kohmi@rinna.co.jp / koh.mitsuda@gmail.com
Personal Links: [CV (pdf)] [Google Scholar] [Hugging Face] [Linkedin]
Biography
Apr. 2023 - Current: Applied scientist at rinna Co., Ltd.
Apr. 2015 - Apr. 2023: Researcher at NTT labs., Japan
Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2021: Ph.D. degree in engineering at University of Tsukuba, Japan (Utsuro lab.)
Aug. 2013 - Sep. 2013: Internship at Rakuten Group, Inc., Japan
Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2015: M.S. degree at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (Tokunaga lab.)
Aug. 2010 - Jul. 2012: Programming part-time job at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (Nakadai lab.）
Apr. 2009 - Mar. 2013: B.S. degree at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (Tokunaga lab.)
Publications
R&D Projects
Multimodal (Vision) LLM
Released adapter-based bilingual image conversational model
Speech Recognition
SECOND IN CHARGE: Contributed to initial trials of model training
[Paper] (arXiv2023)
Open User Experiment
Trained fully generation-based chatbot and organized experiment in Twitter
[Paper] (ACL2022)
Character AI Kurisu
Created hybrid QA chatbot by combining QA and generation model
[Paper] (IWSDS2021)
Debate Generation
Realized robot-to-robot debate with generation model for AI tech show
[Paper] (AACL2022)
Volunteer Work
2020 - Current: Organizer at Special Interest Group on Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication
2021 - 2023: Program Committee at Annual Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing
2020 - 2022: Organizing Committee at Annual Conference of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
2017 - 2018: Organizing Committee at Young Researcher Association for NLP Studies
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