Tomoki Toda was born in Aichi, Japan on January 18, 1977. He earned his B.E. degree from Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan, in 1999 and his M.E. and D.E. degrees from the Graduate School of Information Science, NAIST, Nara, Japan, in 2001 and 2003, respectively.
He is a Professor at the Information Technology Center, Nagoya University. He has also been a Visting Researcher at the NICT, Kyoto, Japan, since 2006. He was a Research Fellow of JSPS in the Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Aichi, Japan, from 2003 to 2005. He was then an Assistant Professor (2005-2011) and an Associate Professor (2011-2015) at the Graduate School of Information Science, NAIST. From 2001 to 2003, he was an Intern Researcher at the ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan, and then he was a Visiting Researcher at the ATR until 2006. He was also a Visiting Researcher at the Language Technologies Institute, CMU, Pittsburgh, USA, from October 2003 to September 2004 and at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, from March to August 2008. His research interests include statistical approaches to speech, music, and environmental sound processing.
He received more than 10 paper awards including the 2009 Young Author Best Paper Award from the IEEE SPS, and the 2013 Best Paper Award (Speech Communication Journal) from EURASIP-ISCA. He also received the 4th Itakura Prize Innovative Young Researcher Award from the ASJ, the 2012 Kiyasu Special Industrial Achievement Award from the IPSJ, and the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Young Scientists' Prize in 2015. He served as a member of the Speech and Language Technical Committee of the IEEE SPS from 2007 to 2009 and 2014 to 2016. He served as Associate Editors of IEEE Signal Processing Letters, EURASIP, Journal on Audio, Speech, and music Processing, and JASA Express Letters. He has served as a Senior Area Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He is a member of IEEE, ISCA, IEICE, IPSJ, and ASJ.