CV

Feel free to contact me for a full cv (pdf).

Professional experience

• 2024/04 - present
  • Assistant Professor, National institute of Informatics.
• 2023/04 - 2024/03
  • Research scientist in Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), RIKEN.
  • with Prof. Satoshi Sekine.
• 2020/12 - 2022/03
  • Researcher in JST PRESTO “The fundamental technologies for Trustworthy AI”.
• 2020/01 - present
  • Visiting Researcher for Assoc. Prof. Kyunghyun Cho, New York University.
  • Including onsite (2020/01 - 2020/06; 2022/03 - present) and remote visiting (2020/06 - 2022/03).
  • Working for Generative Language-Grounded Policy in Vision-and-Language Navigation with Bayes’ Rule (ICLR2021) and more.
• 2019/04 - 2023/03
  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), RIKEN.
  • with Prof. Satoshi Sekine.
• 2018/03 – 2018/06
  • Visiting Researcher for Prof. Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen.
  • Worked for Multi-Task Semantic Dependency Parsing with Policy Gradient for Learning Easy-First Strategies (ACL2019).
• 2015/04 – 2019/03
  • Research Assistant in JST CREST project, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University.
  • “Establishment of Knowledge-Intensive Structural Natural Language Processing and Construction of Knowledge Infrastructure.”

Education

• 2015/04 -2019/03
  • Ph.D. of Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University.
  • Thesis: “Neural Approaches for Syntactic and Semantic Analysis”
  • Supervisor: Prof. Sadao Kurohashi
• 2013/04 – 2015/03
  • Master of Science, Graduate School of Physics, Kyoto University.
  • Statistical and Computational Physics, Neural Networks.
  • Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Shigeru Shinomoto
• 2009/04 – 2013/03
  • Bachelor of Science, Kyoto University.
  • Physics Course.

Teaching experience

• 2017/04 – 2017/09 Physics Experiments (TA) Including face-to-face lectures.
• 2016/10 – 2017/03 Practice Course of Numerical Computations (TA) Including face-to-face lectures of programming languages.
• 2016/04 – 2016/09 Physics Experiments (TA) Including face-to-face lectures.
• 2015/10 – 2016/03 Modern Physics (TA)
• 2014/10 – 2015/03 Modern Physics (TA)

Honors & Awards

• 2021/03 - Committee Member’s Special Award in the 27th Annual Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing.
• 2020/03 - Journal award in the 26th Annual Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing.
• 2019/03 - Best paper award in the 25th Annual Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing.
• 2017/08 - Outstanding paper in the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2017).

Grants & Fellowships

• JSPS Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research(A)) （科研費 国際共同研究強化（Ａ）） (2023.4-).
• JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (科研若手) (2022.4-).
• JST PRESTO Research Projects “The fundamental technologies for Trustworthy AI” （JSTさきがけ） (2020.12-).
• JST ACT-I Research Projects Grant Acceleration Phase (2019.4-2021.3).
• JST ACT-I Research Projects Grant (2017.10-2019.3).
• Invited to Google NLP Summit for Ph.D students and PostDocs, Zurich, Switzerland (2017).

Talks & Activities

See invited talks in the publication page.

• Review talk on the international conference of ACL2017, YANS 2017, Okinawa, Japan (September 2017).