Professor and Dean, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
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Biography（As of August, 2022）
Mar 1987
B.E. in Information Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Mar 1989
M.E. in Information Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Nov 1990
Research Associate, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Jun 1995
Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Apr 2003
Professor, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies and Graduate School of
Informatics, Kyoto University
Apr 2020 – Present
Dean, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Engaged in research on speech information processing, especially speech recognition and
dialog systems.
Doctor of Engineering (Kyoto University)
IEEE Fellow.
Board member, ISCA (International Speech Communication Association)
President-Elect, APSIPA (Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association)
Member of the Information Processing Society of Japan; Acoustical Society of Japan;
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers; Japanese Society for
Artificial Intelligence; and Association for Natural Language Processing
Associate Member of Science Council of Japan
Awards and Honors
2012
Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture,
Sports, Science and Technology
Professor, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
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Biography（As of August, 2022）
Mar 1982
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University
Mar 1984
Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Mar 1987
Ph.D., Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Apr 1987
Research Fellow, Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University
May 1987
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco
May 1989
Research Associate, Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University
Apr 1995
Research Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science,
Kyoto University
Oct 1997 – Sep 2000
Research Member, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (concurrent post)
Apr 1999
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
Aug 1999
Professor, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University
Jan 2003 – Present
Associate Editor of Developmental Cell
May 2004 – Present
Professor, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
Jun 2010
President of the 43rd Annual Meeting for Japanese Society of Developmental
Biologists 2010
2016 – 2019
Councils of scientists (COS) of Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)
Apr 2018 – Present
Department Manager, Research Center for Dynamic Living Systems, Graduate School of
Biostudies, Kyoto University (concurrent post)
Apr 2021 – Present
Deputy Dean, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
Since 1999,
concurrent part-time lecturer at the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biosciences,
The University of Tokyo; Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokushima; and
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo (for one or two
years each)
Members of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, Japanese Society of Developmental
Biologists, Japan Society for Cell Biology, American Society for Cell Biology
Awards and Honors
2004
The 1st Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Prize
“Studies on Genetic Programs of Cell Polarity Underlying Multicellular Organization”
2009
The 26th Inoue Prize for Science
“Controlling Mechanisms of Cell Polarity That Support Functional Expression in
Multicellular Systems”
