| Satoshi Nakamura, Ph.D | |
| Dr. Satoshi Nakamura is Professor of Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Team Leader of Riken AIP, Honorarprofessor of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. He received his B.S. from Kyoto Institute of Technology in 1981 and Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1992. He was Associate Professor of Graduate School of Information Science at NAIST in 1994-2000. He was Department head and Director of ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories in 2000-2004, and 2005-2008, respectively and Vice president of ATR in 2007-2008. He was Director General of Keihanna Research Laboratories and the Executive Director of Knowledge Creating Communication Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan in 2009-2010. He is currently Director of Data Science Center and a full professor of Information Science Division, Graduate School of Science and Technology of NAIST, and Team Leader of Tourism Information Analytics Team at Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), RIKEN, Japan. His research interests include modeling and systems of speech processing, spoken dialog systems, natural language processing, and big data analytics. He is one of the world leaders of speech-to-speech translation research and has been serving for various speech-to-speech translation research projects. He was a committee member of IEEE SLTC 2016-2018. He is currently an Elected Board Member of International Speech Communication Association, ISCA. He received Antonio Zampolli Prize in 2012 and retained the title of ATR Fellow, IPSJ Fellow, and IEEE Fellow. |
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Awards
Scientific Committees
Publication List
| 1992 | Awaya award from Acoustical Society of Japan |
| 2001 | Interaction 2001 best paper award from Information Processing Society Japan |
| 2007 | Telecom System Award from Telecommunication Foundation |
| 2007 | Yamashita Award from Information Processing Society Japan |
| 2007 | Docomo Mobile Science Award from Mobile Communication Foundation |
| 2007 | AAMT Nagao Award |
| 2007 | Eurographics 2007 The Animation Theatre Program Committee Award Eurographics |
| 2008 | Kiyasu Award from Information Processing Society Japan |
| 2008 | ASJ Award for Distinguished Achievements in Acoustics from Acoustical Society of Japan |
| 2010 | Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |
| 2010 | Best Research Award from Japanese Artificial Intelligence Society |
| 2011 | International Cooperation Awards from ITU Association Japan |
| 2011 | Commendation for Science and Technology in Information Technology by the Minister of Internal Affair and Communications |
| 2012 | ELRA Antonio Zampolli Prize |
| 2014 | APSIPA Best Paper Award |
| 2014 | IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop Poster Award |
| 2015 | IEICE Best Paper Award |
| 2016 | IEEE Fellow |
| 2016 | Telecom System Award |
| 2016 | EMNLP Best Short Paper Award |
| 2017 | Itakura Award, Acoustical Society of Japan |
| 2018 | IPSJ Fellow |
| 2019 | ANLP Best Paper Award |
| 2019 | Best Paper Award, Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI |
| 2001-2004 | IEEE SP Society Speech Technical Committee |
| 2001 | Vice General Chair of International Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication, sponsored by IEEE and ISCA |
| 2004 | General Chair of International Workshop on Beyond HMMs, sponsored by IEEE and ISCA |
| 2005 | Organizer of IEEE Joint Workshop of Hands-free speech communication and microphone array |
| 2005 | Technical Chair of Oriental Cocosda Workshop |
| 2005 | General Chair of International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation |
| 2006 | Representative of A-Star (Asian Speech Translation Advanced Research Consortium) |
| 2006 | APT ASTAP Speech and Language Expert Group Rapporteur |
| 2006 | Project Leader of APEC-TEL International Joint Research on Speech Translation |
| 2006 | General Chair of International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation |
| 2007 | International Speech Communication Association, Advisory Board |
| 2008 | APT ASTAP Speech and Language Expert Group Rapporteur |
| 2010 | INTERSPEECH 2010 Technical Program Chair |
| 2011 | Elected Board Member of International Speech Communication Association ISCA |
| 2011 | Convener of Oriental COCOSDA |
| 2011-2019 | ISCA board |
| 2012 | IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Editorial Board Member |
| 2016-2018 | IEEE SPS SLTC |
| 2017 | IWSLT General Chair |
| 2018 | Oriental COCOSDA General Chair |
| 2019 | IWSDS Steering Committee Chair |
| 2019 | SIGDial General Chair |
| 2019 | IEEE ASRU Keynote Chair |
| 2021 | ISCA IAC (International Advisory Committee) |
