2017
2024
Dr. Satoshi Nakamura is a presidential chair professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He is also a professor emeritus at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) and Honorarprofessor of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. He received his B.S. from Kyoto Institute of Technology in 1981 and Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1992. He was an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Information Science at NAIST from 1994-2000. He was Department head and Director of ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories in 2000-2004, and 2005-2008, respectively, and Vice president of ATR in 2007-2008. He was Director General of Keihanna Research Laboratories and the Executive Director of Knowledge Creating Communication Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan 2009-2010. He moved to Nara Institute of Science and Technology as a full professor in 2011. He established the Data Science Center at NAIST and served as a director from 2017 to 2021. He also served as a team leader of the Tourism Information Analytics Team at the AIP center of RIKEN Institute, Japan, from 2017-2021. He is currently a full professor and Presidential Chair Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China. His research interests include modeling and systems of spoken language processing, speech processing, spoken language translation, spoken dialog systems, natural language processing, and data science. He is one of the world leaders in speech-to-speech translation research. He has been serving various speech-to-speech translation research projects, including C-Star, A-Star, and the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation IWSLT. He is currently the chairperson of ISCA SIG SLT (Spoken Language Translation). He also contributed to the standardization of the network-based speech translation at ITU-T. He was a committee member of IEEE SLTC 2016-2018. He was an Elected Board Member of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA, from 2012 to 2019. He received the Antonio Zampolli Prize in 2012 and retained the title of IEEE Fellow, ISCA Fellow, IPSJ Fellow, and ATR Fellow.
Also, please take a look at Member Highlights in IEEE Inside Signal Processing
https://signalprocessingsociety.org/newsletter/2021/09/member-highlights-satoshi-nakamura
https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=ckdfXawAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
https://sai.cuhk.edu.cn/en/teacher/104
| • Spoken Language Processing • Spoken Dialog Systems • Data Science | • Spoken Language Translation • Natural Language Processing • Data Analytics | | --- | --- |
Artificial Intelligence, Spoken Language Processing, Spoken Language Translation, Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, Spoken Dialogue Modeling