Profile

Professional Experiences

1997.4 Join Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
1997.8 NTT Human Interface Laboratories
1999.1 NTT Cyber Space Laboratories
2000.4 NTT West
2002.5 NTT Cyber Space Laboratories
2004.7 Human Information Science Laboratory, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
2007.4 Moriya Research Lab, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
2014.7 Human Resources Manager, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
2017.4 Leader, Acoustic Information Group, Audio, Speech, and Language Media Laboratory, NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories
2019.7 Executive Manager, Media Information Laboratory, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
2021.4 Visiting professor, Cource of Media and Network Technologies, Graduate School/Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Hikkaido University
2022.4 Senior Distinguished Researcher, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
2022.10 Leader, Computational Modeling Research Group, Media Information Laboratory, NTT Communication Science Laboratories


Education

1995.3 B.S. from Department of Computer Science and Mechanical Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology
1997.3 M.S. from Department of Graduate School of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology
2017.3 Ph.D from Computer Science, Graduate school of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba
Dissertation: "Lossless Compression of Speech and Audio Signals, and Its Application "


Awards

Public Awards

2022 The ACM Multimedia 2022 Best Paper Runner-Up Award
2020 Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2020) Challenge Task 6 Audio Captioning 1st place winner, (DCASE Challenge 2022)
2020 The 35th TELECOM System Technology Paper Award from Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (TAF), Japan
2019 International standard development award from Information Technology Standard Commision of Japan (ITSCJ)
2018 Best author award from The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
2018 IEEE Senior Member
2017 International standard development award from Information Technology Standard Commision of Japan (ITSCJ)
2016 The 24th Development award from the Acoustic Society of Japan (ASJ)
2016 International standard contribution award from Information Technology Standard Commision of Japan (ITSCJ)
2012 Certificate of Appliciation on ISO/IEC, Project Editor in the development of International Standard
2011 Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan, FY 2011 Industrial Standardization Awards
2010 Certificate of Appliciation on ISO/IEC, Project Editor in the development of International Standard
2010 International standard development award from Information Technology Standard Commision of Japan (ITSCJ)
2010 International standard development award from Information Technology Standard Commision of Japan (ITSCJ)
2009 Certificate of Appliciation on ISO/IEC, Project Editor in the development of International Standard
2008 International standard development award from Information Technology Standard Commision of Japan (ITSCJ)
2008 Certificate of Appliciation on ISO/IEC, Project Editor in the development of International Standard
2007 The 22nd TELECOM System Technology Paper Award from Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (TAF), Japan

NTT internal awards

2023 Award from Communication Science Labs.
2022 Award from Communication Science Labs.
2019 NTT President's award
2018 NTT President's award
2016 NTT President's award
2014 NTT Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group's awarad
2010 NTT Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group's awarad
2010 Award from Communication Science Labs.
2007 NTT Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group's awarad
2006 Award from Communication Science Labs.
2003 NTT Cyber Solution Laboratory Group's award
2002 NTT West President's award


Society Memberships

The Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)
Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member


Contributed International Standards

ISO/IEC 14496-3 MPEG-4 ALS
ISO/IEC 14496-3:2005/Amd.8 MP4FF box for Original Audio File Information
ISO/IEC 14496-5:2001/Amd.10 MPEG-4 ALS reference software
ISO/IEC 14496-26 2nd Edition MPEG-4 Conformance bitstreams
ISO/IEC 14496-12:2008/Amd.4 MP4 files as a playlist, and large metadata support
ISO/IEC 23000-6 MPEG-A Professional Archival Application Format
ISO/IEC 23000-6:2005/Amd.1 Conformance and reference software
ISO/IEC 23000-6:2009/Amd.2 Support for large number of files
ISO/IEC 23000-15: Multimedia Preservation Application Format
ITU-T Recommendation G.711.0 Lossless compression of G.711
ITU-T Recommendation G.711.1 Annex C
IEC 61937-10 1st Edition
IETF RFC 7655 RTP payload for G.711.0
3GPP Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) TR