Research Interests
- Spoken dialogue system, dialogue modeling, negotiation/persuasive dialogue.
- Statistical machine learning (especially reinforcement learning).
- Standardization of multi AI/LLM agents (e.g., A2A).
Employment
Job
- Researcher at NEC, 2016 ~ .
- Researcher at AIST, 2017 ~ .
Internship
Others
- Teaching assistant at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2012.
- Research assistant at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2013 ~ 2016.
- Research scientist for research and development entrusted by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 2012 ~ 2016.
- Visiting researcher at RIKEN AIP, 2017 ~ 2021.
Activities
Student member
Reviewer
- Journal of JSAI, 2017
- INTERSPEECH, 2018 ~
- SigDial, 2019 ~
- ICASSP, 2020 ~
- ICML, 2021 ~
- NeurIPS, 2021 ~
- CoRL, 2021
- ICLR, 2022 ~ (selected as a highlighted reviewer, 2022)
- IEEE TASLPRO, 2025
- RLC Workshop on RL4RS, 2025
Skills
Language: Native Japanese speaker, competent English communication abilities (TOEIC: 870, and experience of supervising an intern student who speaks English).
Programming: Experience of development of the system using Python, Java, and C++.
Education
- B.E. Informatics, Kinki University, 2011.
- M.E. Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2013.
- Ph.D. Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2016.
Honor, Award, and Grant
- Exemption of tuition fees of the Masters course at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2011
- Grant for the conference-related travel expenses (The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation), 2015
Personal
Born on January 13, 1989. Japan Citizen. Like listening music and jogging.