Experience

  • Oct. 2023 - present: Researcher, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories
  • Apr. 2023 - Sep. 2023: Researcher, NTT Computer & Data Science Laboratories
  • Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2023: JSPS Research Fellow (DC2), The University of Tokyo
  • Nov. 2022 - Mar. 2023: Algorithm Engineer, ACES
  • Dec. 2021 - Mar. 2023: Researcher, Ememe
  • Mar. 2019 – Feb. 2023: Research Assistant, National Institute of Informatics
  • Jan. 2022 - Feb. 2022: Research Intern, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories
    • Adviser: Dr. Kyosuke Nishida and Dr. Taku Hasegawa
  • Sep. 2019 – Sep. 2021: Research Assistant, The University of Tokyo
  • Jul. 2020 - Mar. 2021: Collaborative Research with Matsuo Lab, The University of Tokyo
  • Apr. 2020 – Jun. 2020: Freelance Machine Learning Engineer
  • May 2019 - Sep. 2019: Algorithm Engineer, ACES
  • Oct. 2018 – Feb. 2019: Freelance Machine Learning Engineer
  • Feb. 2018 – Mar. 2018: Research Intern, NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories
    • Adviser: Dr. Kyosuke Nishida
  • Jul. 2017 – Aug. 2017: R&D Intern, DeNA
  • Mar. 2017 - Jul. 2017: Algorithm Intern, PKSHA Technology

Education

  • Sep. 2019 - Mar. 2023: Doctor of Information Science and Technology
    • Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
    • PhD thesis: “Debiasing Reading Comprehension Models Towards Out-of-Distribution Generalization” [link]
    • Adviser: Prof. Akiko Aizawa
  • Apr. 2017 - Sep. 2019: Master of Information Science and Technology
    • Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
    • Master thesis: “Generating Diverse Question-Answer Pairs for Machine Reading Comprehension”
    • Adviser: Prof. Akiko Aizawa
  • Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2017: Bachelor of Engineering
    • Department of Systems Innovation (C), School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
    • Adviser: Prof. Katsuyuki Suzuki

Awards

  • Mar. 2024: Sponsorship Award, the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing
  • Jun. 2021: JSAI Incentive Award (2020), the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) (Top 5%)
  • Dec. 2020: Presentation Award, NTCIR-15 (co-authored)
  • Mar. 2019: Paper Award, the 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (Top 1.7%, co-authored)

Scholarships

  • Mar. 2022: Full exemption from repayment for particularly outstanding achievements, Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO)
  • Mar. 2019: Half exemption from repayment for particularly outstanding achievements, Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO)
  • Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2018: UTokyo Toyota-Dwango AI scholarship

Review

  • 2024: EACL, NAACL, ACL, COLM
  • 2023: ACL, MMM, EMNLP
  • 2022: EMNLP, ARR Jan., Mar., Dec.
  • 2021: EMNLP, NAACL, TACL2021 (secondary), ARR Nov. (secondary)
  • 2020: ACL
  • 2019: ACL (secondary)

Funding

  • Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2023: Research Fellowship (DC2), JSPS (900K JPY)
  • Oct. 2021 - Mar. 2022: SPRING, JST (330K JPY)

Teaching

Other Activities

  • Jan. 2024: 人工知能学会 博士論文特集 [link]
  • Aug. 2023: 論文紹介@最先端NLP勉強会 [slides]
  • Mar. 2023: 大規模言語モデルの知識を補完するための Retriever (RAG) の紹介 [link]
  • Mar. 2023: 第25回 NLP Dの会 (in Japanese)
  • Sep. 2021: 論文紹介@最先端NLP勉強会 [slides] (in Japanese)
  • Mar. 2021: 第19回 NLP Dの会 (in Japanese)
  • Sep. 2020: 論文紹介@最先端NLP勉強会 [slides] (in Japanese)
  • Jun. 2020: NII Open House 2020 (poster session) “Artificial Intelligence to Create Reading Comprehension Questions” [poster] (in Japanese)
  • Sep. 2019: 論文紹介@最先端NLP勉強会 [slides] (in Japanese)