Dr. Takafumi Koshinaka

● JP / 日本語

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, Mar 2013

  • Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Dissertation: “A Study on Semantic Indexing for Spoken Document Retrieval”

  • Committee: Koichi Shinoda (chair), Taisuke Sato, Takenobu Tokunaga, Atsushi Fujii, and Masashi Sugiyama

• ME in Aeronautical Engineering, Mar 1993

  • Kyoto University,

  • Thesis: “Pressure Waves in a Separated Gas-liquid Layer in a Horizontal Duct”

  • Advisor: Shigeki Morioka

• BE in Aeronautical Engineering, Mar 1991

  • Kyoto University

  • Advisor: Shigeki Morioka

Working Experience

• Central Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation (1993 - 2020)

  • Researcher (Apr 1993 - Mar 2006)

  • Principal Researcher and R&D Manager (Apr 2006 - Mar 2013)

  • Senior Principal Researcher (Apr 2013 - Aug 2020)

  • Served as the R&D Lead in Spoken Language Processing for more than 10 years

• School of Data Science, Yokohama City University (2020 -)

  • Professor (Sep 2020 - )

Teaching Experience

• Advanced Natural Language Processing (2020 Autumn -)

  • Graduate School of Data Science, Yokohama City University

• Probability and Statistics (2020 Autumn -)

  • School of Science, Yokohama City University

  • School of Medicine: Medical Course, Yokohama City University

• Data Mining (2021 Spring - )

  • School of Data Science, Yokohama City University

• Speech Information Processing (2019 - , Part-time)

  • Graduate School of Computer and Information Science, Hosei University

• Speech Recognition (2020, Part-time)

  • Faculty of Engineering, Takushoku University

• Advanced Data Science (2017 - 2020, Part-time)

  • Graduate School of Science, Kobe University

• Advanced Artificial Intelligence (2019 - 2020, Part-time)

  • Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University (Part-time)

Publications

• Please see
  https://researchmap.jp/TakafumiKoshinaka/published_papers?lang=en
  or
  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Takafumi-Koshinaka/research

Honors and Awards

• IEICE Young Researcher’s Award - May 2000

  • From the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineering (IEICE) for his research achievement on handwritten word recognition

• 2nd place in 2016 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE’16) - Dec 2016

  • As the project leader of a joint team of NEC Corporation and Tokyo Institute of Technology

• 2nd place in 2018 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE’18) - Dec 2018

  • As the project leader of a joint team of NEC Corporation and Tokyo Institute of Technology

Professional Services

• APSIPA Industrial Membership Committee

  • Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (2016 – 2018)

• JSAI Board Member

  • The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, June, 2017 – June 2019

• JSAI Representative

  • The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, June, 2017 – Present

• Executive Vice-chair, 2018 JSAI Annual Conference (JSAI 2018)

  • The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Kagoshima, 5 – 8 June, 2018

• Executive Chair, 2019 JSAI Annual Conference (JSAI 2019)

  • The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Niigata, 4 – 7 June, 2019

• General Co-chair, 2020 The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (Odyssey 2020)

  • The International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Speaker and Language Characterization SIG, Tokyo, 2 – 5 Nov, 2020.

• Sponsor Co-chair, 2021 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2021)

  • Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association, Tokyo, 2021

• Reviewer

  • Speech Communication (ISCA: International Speech Communication Association)

    • 2013 –

  • Computer Speech and Language (ISCA: International Speech Communication Association)

    • 2019 –

  • IEICE Trans. on Information Systems (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineering)

    • 2011 – (JP) 2014 – (EN)

  • ICASSP: IEEE International Conference on Audio, Speech, and Signal Processing

    • 2015 –

  • INTERSPEECH (ISCA: International Speech Communication Association)

    • 2010 –

  • ASRU: IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop

    • 2017 –

  • SLT: IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop

    • 2016 –

  • APSIPA: Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference

    • 2015 –

Professional Memberships

• IEEE / Signal Processing Society

• The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineering (IEICE) / Information and System Society

• The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)

• The Association for Natural Language Processing

• The Acoustic Society of Japan (ASJ)