Joint research projects

1. Professor Daisuke Kawahara at Waseda University, Japan (2025 - Present)

2. Professor Kazuhiro Nakadai at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (2024 - 2025)

3. Associate Professor Shinji Watanabe at CMU, USA (2021 – 2025)

• OWSM: Large-scale Multilingual Speech Foundation Model (🏆⁠ISCA Best Student Paper Award 2025🏆️)

• DPHuBERT: Joint Distillation and Pruning of Self-Supervised Speech Models

4. Associate Professor Ryu Takeda at Osaka University, Japan (2021 – 2023)

• Integration of Automatic Speech Recognition and Speech Enhancement based on Evidence Model

5. Professor Hirofumi Nakajima at Kogakuin University, Japan (2021 - 2022)

• Online Adaptation of Fourier-series Acoustic Transfer Function to Improve Sound Source Localization and Separation

Internship Supervision

Supervised as Team Leader:

1. Master's student, University of Tokyo, Japan (2025.7 – Present)

2. Doctoral student, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan (2025.6 – Present)

3. Prospective master's student, Waseda University, Japan (2025.6 – Present)

4. Doctoral student, Nagoya University, Japan (2025.5 – Present)

Supervised as Mentor:

5. Master's student, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (2024.8 – 2024.11)

6. Undergraduate student, The University of British Columbia, Canada (2024.5 – 2024.12)

7. Master's student, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (2022.12 – 2023.6)

• Improving Noise Robustness of Automatic Speech Recognition based on a Parallel Adapter Model with Near-Identity Initialization (🏆JSAI Incentive Award🏆)

8. Doctoral student, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (2021.12 – 2022.8)

Teaching

• Keio University, Department of System Design Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Advanced System Design Engineering, Jun. 27th, 2024.

• Keio University, School of Integrated Design Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, System Design Engineering Exercise (TA), 2009-2010.

Workshop organizer

• Speech-based communication for robots and systems, in RO-MAN, 2023 (Role: Lead Organizer).

Session chair

• INTERSPEECH 2025: Decoding algorithm

• RO-MAN 2023: Linguistic Communication and Dialogue

Reviewer

• Journal: TASLP, Speech Communication, IEEE Access, TECS, Signal, Image and Video Processing, IEICE

• Conference: ICASSP, INTERSPEECH, ASRU, SLT, IJCNN, ACL, RO-MAN, IROS