Profile

Education

• 1998 BS in Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
• 2000 MS in Engineering, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
• 2005 PhD in Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Working Experience

• 1997 Technical Staff, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
• 1998 Summer Internship, NTT Software Laboratories
• 2003-2006 Intern Researcher / Researcher, ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories
• 2007-2010 Research Associate / Senior Research Associate, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
• 2011-2023 Associate Professor, ISM
• 2024- Professor, ISM

Academic Visits

• 2008 Computational Cognitive Science group, headed by Josh Tenenbaum, MIT (short term)
• 2016 Senior Research Scientist, The Third Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop, Johns Hopkins University. [final report]

Academic Services

• TACL, Action Editor, 2016-2025
• ACL Rolling Review, Action Editor, 2021-2022
• ACL-IJCNLP 2021, (Non-senior) Area chair in Machine Learning for NLP
• Senior PC, IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, IJCAI 2021, IJCAI 2023
• NAACL-HLT 2019, Area Chair in Machine Learning for NLP
• COLING 2016, Area Chair in Morphology, Segmentation, Tagging and Chunking
• ACL 2016, Area Chair in Document analysis including Text categorization, Topic models, and Retrieval
• ACL 2015, Area Chair in Machine Learning and Topic Models for Language Processing
• Reviewing:
  • NIPS 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • ICML 2009, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • AISTATS 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
  • ACL 2006, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 (2024-ARR)
  • EMNLP 2004, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, (2024-ARR)
  • ACML 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • else: JMLR, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, TASL, TASLP, MLSP, NAACL, TACL