About me
Research engineer working at LY Corporation.
Email: hoktuo.munakata [at] gmail.com
Interest: Audio signal processing, Multimodal AI, Bayesian modeling
My CV is available here.
Experience
Research scientist (Oct. 2023~)
LY Corporation, Japan
Audio signal processing
Video analysis and generation
Research scientist (Apr. 2023~Oct. 2023 *Transfer due to company merger)
LINE Corporation, Japan
Audio signal processing
Internship (Aug. 2022~Sept. 2022)
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC), Japan
Topic: Sound source separation
Mentor: Dr. Yoshiaki Bando
Internship (Aug. 2021~Sept. 2021)
CyberAgent, AI Shift, Japan
Topic: Spoken dialogue system
Mentor: Mr. Masakazu Sugiyama
Education
M.S. degree (Eng.), Osaka University, Japan, (Apr.2021~Mar.2023)
Supervisor: Prof. Kazunori Komatani
Sugata-Cohen Award (Awarded to Outstanding Graduate) [Link]
B.S. degree (Eng.), Osaka University, Japan, (Apr.2017~Mar.2021)
Supervisor: Prof. Kazunori Komatani
Academic activity
Competition organizer
DCASE 2026 Challenge, Task 6 (Core contributor) [Link]
Review experience
Interspeech 2025; ICASSP 2026; WASPAA 2025; APSIPA 2025