Tomohiro NAKATANI

Japanese version



Senior Distinguished Researcher
Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation
http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/english/index.html

Work address

Communication Science Labs., NTT Corporation
2-4, Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0237 Japan [Access]
Email: tnak(at)ieee.org, Tel: +81 774 93 5134

Education

Professional Experience

2001 - Present Senior Research Scientist (2001-2019) and Senior Distinguished Researcher (2019-Present), Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation
2008 - 2018 Visiting Associate Professor, Nagoya University
2005 - 2006 Visiting Scholar, Georgia Institute of Technology
1999 - 2001 Technical staff member, Corporate Business Headquarters, NTT-east Corporation
1998 - 1999 Technical staff member, Multimedia Business Department, NTT Corporation
1991 - 1998 Researcher, Basic Research Laboratory, NTT Corporation

Research Interests

  1. Single and multi channel speech enhancement
  2. Robust automatic speech recognition (ASR)
  3. Computational auditory scene analysis

Publications

Awards

Academic Activities

2016 - PresentMember of Spoken Language Processing Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society
2017 - 2020Vice-Chair (2017-2018) and Chair (2019-2020) of Kansai Chapter, IEEE Signal Processing Society
Dec. 2017General co-Chair of IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)
Apr. 2009 - 2014Member of Audio and Acoustics Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society
2009 - 2014 Secretary (Jan. 2009-Dec. 2010), Chair (Jan. 2011-Dec. 2012), and Past-Chair (Jan. 2013-2014) of IEEE Kansai Section Technical Program Committee
May 2014 Chair of REVERB (REverberant Voice Enhancement and Recognition Benchmark) Challenge Workshop [Challenge Web Site]
Mar. 2008 - Mar. 2010 Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
May 2007 - May 2009 Member of Blind Signal Processing Technical Committee, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Sep. 2010 Organizer of a Special Issue "Processing reverberant speech: methodologies and applications" for IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
Apr. 2009 Organizer of a Special Session "Handling reverberant speech: methodologies and applications" for IEEE International Conference on Audio, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2009)
May 2008 Member of Organizing Committee, IEEE workshop on Computer Based Signal Processing
Oct. 2007 Technical Program Co-Chair of IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2007)
June 2007 Special Session Organizer for IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2007)

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