We accept a wide range of students who want to take the master's or Ph.D. program in our lab. For those who want to enter PhD program, send a presentation slide in English on a paper you have published in the NLP/CL field. For those who want to enter the master's program, clarify whether you plan to proceed to PhD program. We strongly recommend you to talk via Zoom after having an appointment via e-mail. If you want to join our lab. as a research student, please explain the reason (we fairly accept all applicants who pass the master's entrance exam and are assigned to our lab.).
Please use an institutional e-mail address (from the university or company) for contact wherever possible, since I intentionally ignore e-mails from free webmails (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo!, Outlook, etc.) to filter out applicants who do not read this page (mention if you can use only free webmails). I rarely reply to e-mails that can be distributed to other labs. as is to filter out applicants who downplay a matching between their interests and research themes in the lab. Especially, we do not accept any students who
Finally, we welcome visiting students or researchers who want to have a half-year or one-year research stay in our group with their own budget and research plan, unless desks are occupied by the current members.
2016 - present: | Associate Professor at Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo |
2014 - 2016: | Senior Researcher at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) |
2012 - 2016: | Project Associate Professor at Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo |
2008 - 2012: | Project Assistant Professor at Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo |
2002 - 2008: | Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (DC1, PD) (11.6%, 10.0% accepted, respectively) |
2002 - 2005: | Ph.D. in Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo |
2000 - 2002: | M.Sc. in Department of Information Science, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo |
1996 - 2000: | B.Sc. in Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science, the University of Tokyo |
We're studying various aspects on natural language processing (NLP) and computational linguistics (CL), especially
I like to design important NLP tasks [EMNLP-12, ACL-13, COLING-14, IJCAI-16, IJCAI-19], rather than solving classic tasks on worn-out datasets.
Note that some of the above softwares are no longer experimental codes; they are substantially elaborated from the original codes to have a better performance (2-5x speed-up, or +1% in accuracy etc.; track History section of each software). Those who want to reproduce the experimental results may want to use the oldest release of the softwares.
Awards (as a supervisor):