Curriculum Vitae (CV) of Prof. Dr. Nobuaki MINEMATSU

• Name
  MINEMATSU, Nobuaki, born on December 17th, 1966
  
  
• Position and title
  Full professor at Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems,
  Graduate School of Engineering, UTokyo
  
  
• Education and training
  • Bachelor
    Electrical Engineering, UTokyo, 1990
    
  • Master
    Electronical Engineering, UTokyo, 1992
  • Doctor
    Electronical Engineering, UTokyo, 1995
    
    
• Employment and honors
  • Employment
    1995 - 2000: Assistant researcher at Toyohashi University of Technology
    2000 - 2012: Associate professor at UTokyo
    2012 - 2019: Full professor at UTokyo
    2002 - 2003: Visiting researcher at KTH (Stockholm, Sweden)
    
    
  • Honors
    2005: Best paper award from Research Institute of Signal Processing (RISP)
    2007: Paper award from The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)
    2011: Best paper award form Research Institute of Signal Processing (RISP)
    2014: Best paper award from International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST)
    2014: Best paper award from International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standard of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (COCOSDA)
    2014: Academic encouragement award from Phonetic Society of Japan (PSJ)
    2016: Information Systems Society (ISS) best paper award from The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
    
    
  • Keynote, invited, and tutorial talks at international meetings
    ASSTA Research Workshop on Application of Speech Technology to L2 Learning (2005)
    ASA&ASJ Joint Meeting (2006)
    ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Conference Series (2008)
    Phonetic Conference of China and Int. Symposium on Phonetic Frontiers (2008)
    ICSP2008
    APSIPA2011
    INTERSPEECH2012
    ICIST2014
    PAAL2014
    NSJLE2014
    O-COCOSDA2014
    ASSTA Research Event Program for Japanese Language Education (2015)
    EJHIB2015
    ISAPh2016
    Speech Prosody 2016
    ASA&ASJ Joint Meeting (2016)
    AIDLG2017
    CASTEL/J2017
    L2 Japanese Language Education with Technology (2017)
    Sino-Japanese Liguistics Forum 2019
    ROCLING2019
    
    
• Scientific activities or contributions
  1998: Editorial board member of IPSJ (to 2001)
  2002: Editorial board member of ASJ (to 2006)
  2004: Secretary of the organizing committee of Speech Prosody 2004
  2007: Technical committee of Speech SIG of IEICE (to 2008)
  2008: Organizing committee member of Asian workshop of speech science and technology
  2008: SLaTE committee member (active)
  2010: Secretary of the organizing committee of INTERSPEECH 2010
  2010: Co-organizer of SLaTE workshop 2010
  2009: Editorial board member of IEICE (to 2013)
  2011: Treasurer of IEEE SP Japan Chapter (to 2012)
  2014: Chair of the editorial board of Information Systems Society of IEICE (to 2014)
  2015: Distinguished lecturer of APSIPA (to 2016)
  2016: Chair of SIG-SLP of IPSJ (to 2018)
  2016: Member of the Phonetic Society of Japan Council
  2017: Vice Chair of Information Systems Society of IEICE (to 2019)
  2018: Program Chair of O-COCOSDA 2018
  2019: Director of Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)
  2019: ISCA Board Member
  2020: General Chair of Speech Prosody 2020
  
  
• Classes
  • For undergraduates
    Digital signal processing
    Spoken language and natural language processing
    Introduction to information processing systems
    Laboratory experiments
    
  • For graduates
    Cognitie media processing
    Acoustic phonetics
    
    
• Biography
  Nobuaki MINEMATSU earned the doctor of Engineering in 1995 from The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) and since 2012, he has been a full professor there. From 2002 to 2003, he was a visiting researcher at Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (KTH). He has a wide interest in speech communication covering the areas of speech science and speech engineering, especially he has an expert and practical knowledge on Computer-Aided Language Learning (CALL). He developed the web-based system of OJAD (Online Japanese Accent Dictionary), which is the first and currently only teaching material for prosody control of Japanese word accent changes and sentence intonation generation. It has gained huge popularity and was internationalized into 14 languages. He organized more than 140 OJAD tutorial workshops in 38 countries. He has published more than 450 journal and conference papers. He received paper awards from RISP, JSAI, ICIST, O-COCOSDA, IEICE in 2005, 2007, 2011, 2014, and 2016 and received an encouragement award from PSJ in 2014. He gave tutorial talks on CALL at APSIPA2011, INTERSPEECH2012, PAAL2017, and CASTEL/J2017 and gave many keynote and invited talks at conferences. He was a distinguished lecturer of APSIPA from 2015 to 2016. He has made remarkable contributions to academic societies. He served as secretary of Speech Prosody 2004, secretary of INTERSPEECH2010, co-organizer of SLaTE2010 (L2 workshop 2010), and program chair of O-COCOSDA2018. He is going to serve as general chair of Speech Prosody 2020 in Tokyo. He served as editorial chair of IEICE from 2014 to 2016 and chair of SIG-SLP of IPSJ from 2016 to 2017, and has been serving as member of the PSJ council since 2016. From 2019, he is a director of Acoustical Society of Japan and a board member of ISCA. He is a member of ISCA, SLaTE, IEEE, IPA, APSIPA, IEICE, IPSJ, ASJ, PSJ, JSAI, and LET.