Profile

Basic Information

• Name: Sadao Hiroya
• Degree: Ph.D., Tokyo Institute of Technology, March 2006
• Affiliation:
  Sensory and Motor Research Group,
  Human Information Science Laboratory,
  Communication Science Laboratories, NTT, Inc.
  
• Position: Senior Research Scientist

Research Areas

• Cognitive neuroscience
• Speech science
• Auditory feedback
• Speech signal processing
• Speech production and perception
• Sensorimotor control

Career

• Joined NTT, 2001
• Researcher, JST CREST Project "Creating the Brain", 2001–2003
• Ph.D., Tokyo Institute of Technology, March 2006
• Visiting Researcher, Boston University, 2007–2008
• Senior Research Scientist (Distinguished Researcher), 2017–2019
• Senior Research Scientist, NTT Communication Science Laboratories (present)

Teaching

• Part-time Lecturer, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, 2012–2016
  "Multimedia and Psychology (Audition)"

Supervision

• Supervised graduate students and interns from Caltech, Stanford University, Kyushu University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Keio University, Kyoto University, etc.
• External examiner for Ph.D. theses (Kyushu University, Sophia University)

Review Activities

• IEEE, JASA, Speech Communication, PLOS ONE, IEICE, Acoustical Society of Japan, etc.

Professional Activities

• Board Member (Academic Affairs), Acoustical Society of Japan, 2025–
• Board Member (Editorial Affairs), Acoustical Society of Japan, 2023–2025
• Editor-in-Chief, ASJ Editorial Committee, 2023–2025
• Member, ASJ Public Relations/Information Technology Committee, 2021–
• Vice Chair, ASJ Technical Committee of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, 2025–
• Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee, 2017–2024

Awards

• SICE SI2003 Presentation Award, 2003
• ASJ Itakura Prize Innovative Young Researcher Award, 2006
• NTT CS Labs Research Award, 2014
• ASJ Activity Contribution Award, 2015
• IEICE Editorial Activity Award, 2017
• NTT CS Labs Special Award, 2025

Activities and Media

• Technical contribution to NHK Educational TV program, 2003
• Media coverage on speech rhythm conversion technology (Nikkei, Asahi, etc.), 2013
• Media coverage on speech rhythm conversion technology, including NHK "News Watch 9" and TV Tokyo "WBS", 2015
• Reuters coverage on English pronunciation technology, 2020
• Vice Chair, Organizing Committee, NTT CS Labs Open House 2022, 2022