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Ryo Masumura, Ph.D.

is a distinguished research scientist in Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT). He received B.E., M.E., Ph.D. degrees in engineering from Tohoku University,Sendai, Japan, in 2009, 2011, and 2016 respectively. Since joining NTT in 2011, he has been engaged in research on speech recognition, spoken language processing, and natural language processing. He received the Student Award and the Awaya Kiyoshi Science Promotion Award from the Acoustic Society of Japan (ASJ) in 2011 and 2013, respectively, the Sendai Section Student Awards The Best Paper Prize from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2011, the Yamashita SIG Research Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) in 2014, the Young Researcher Award from the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP) in 2015, and the ISS Young Researcher’s Award in Speech Field from the Institute of Electronic, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) in 2015. He is a member of the ASJ, the IPSJ, the NLP, the IEEE, and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).

Biography

• 2005.03 Graduated from Niigata Senior High School.

• 2009.03 Graduated from Tohoku University, Faculty of Engineering, Makino Ito Laboratory.

• 2010.08 NTT Communication Science Laboratories Media Information Laboratory, Internship (Dr.Takanobu Oba)．

• 2011.03 Graduated from Tohoku University, Graduate School of Engineering, Ito Laboratory.

• 2011.04 Join into Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT).

• 2011.04-2011.09 NTT East-Aomori OJT．

• 2011.09-2012.06 NTT Cyberspace Laboratories．

• 2015.04-2016.09 Ph.D. Student, Tohoku University, Graduate School of Engineering, Ito Nose Laboratory.

• 2012.07-2019.06 NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, Audio, Speech, and Language Media Laboratory.

• 2019.07-2021.06 NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, Cognitive Information Processing Laboratory.

• 2021.07-Present NTT Computer and Data Science Laboratories.

Research Topics

• Automatic Speech Recognition (Language Modeling, Acoustic Modeling, Lexical Modeling, End-to-End ASR, Spoken Language Identification)

• Spoken Dialogue System (Voice Activity Detection, End-of-Turn Detection, Spoken Language Understanding, Response Generation)

• Spoken Language Processing（Spoken Document Retrieval, Unsupervised Speech Processing）

• Natural Language Processing（Topic Modeling, Information Retrieval, POS Tagging, Statistical Machine Translation）

• Machine Learning (Bayesian Modeling, Neural Network)

Memberships

• Member of IPSJ (Information Proccesing Society of Japan): #201001676

• Member of ASJ (The Acoustical Society of Japan): #16976

• Member of NLP (The Association for Natural Language Processing): #333617

• Member of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers): #92969452

• Member of ISCA (International Speech Communication Association)

Awards

• 2010 The Student Award from the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)．

• 2010 IEEE Sendai Section Student Awards 2010 The Best Paper Prize．

• 2013 The Awaya Award from the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)．

• 2014 The Yamashita SIG Research Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)．

• 2015 The Young Researcher Award from the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP)．

• 2015 IEICE-ISS Young Researcher's Award in Speech Field (IEICE).

• 2016 Recommended PhD Thesis from the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)．

• 2018 IEICE-ISS Excellent Paper Award (IEICE).

• 2018 Excellent paper award at the 238th meeting of Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (IPSJ-SIGNL).

• 2020 Paper Award, in the 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing. (NLP) .