Seiya Kawano, D.Eng.

Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Knowledge Acquisition and Dialogue Research Team,
  • RIKEN, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research

    • EDUCATION

  • Doctor of Engineering, Division of Information Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2018/04 - 2021/03.
  • Master’s Degree in Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2016/04 - 2018/03.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Advanced Course of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Oita College, 2014/04 - 2016/03.
  • Foundation Degree in Engineering, Department of Computer and Control Engineering, Oita National College of Technology, 2009/04-2014/03.

    • EXPERIENCE

  • Postdoctoral Researcher (full-time), RIKEN, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Guardian Robot Project (GRP), 2021/10 - Present.
  • Lecturer (part-time), Doshisha University, 2022.
  • Research Associate (full-time), RIKEN, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Guardian Robot Project (GRP), 2021/04 - 2021/09.
  • Part-time Researcher, RIKEN, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Robotics Project, 2020/11 - 2021/03
  • JSPS Research Fellow (DC2), 2020/04 - 2021/03.
  • Research Internship, University of Southern California, 2019/12 - 2020/02.
      • Theme: Dialogue structure parsing on multi-floor dialogue
      Supervisor: Dr. David Traum
  • Research Internship, NTT Communication Science Laboratory, 2019/11 - 2020/03.
      • Theme: Entrainable neural conversation model based on reinforcement learning
      Supervisor: Dr. Masahiro Mizukami
  • Researcher, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2017/04 - 2020/03.
  • Research Assistant, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2018/04 - 2021/03.
  • Teaching Assistant, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2017/09 - 2017/12.

    • Awards

  • Excellence Award, 5th Dialog System Live Competition, 2022/12.
  • Incentive Award, Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (SIG-NL), 2022/09.
  • Young Researcher Encouragement Award, Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (SIG-NL), 2022/06.
  • Incentive Award, Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (SIG-NL), 2022/06.
  • Incentive Award, The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2021/06.
  • Best Student Paper Award, Special Interest Group of Spoken Language Processing (SIG-SLP), 2019/02.
  • Accept of NAIST Top Scholarship Program, Nara Institue of Science and Technology, 2018/06.
  • Exemption from Scholarship Refund for Excellent Student, Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) Type I scholarship (1,200,000 JPY), 2018/05.
  • Best Paper Award Runner-Up, The 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS2018), 2018/05.
  • Best Paper Award, The Journal of Intellectual Property Association of Japan (JIPAJ), 2017/12.
  • Student Incentive Award, The 23th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Kyushu Section, 2015/09.

    Research Funds

  • Japan Science and Technology Agency - JAPAN, ACT-X, Patent discourse structure parsing for assisting patent document reading, JPMJAX22A4, main proposer.
  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - JAPAN, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, User-adaptive spoken dialogue system based on accommodation theory, 22K17958, main proposer.
  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - JAPAN, JSPS-Fellowship (DC2), Dialogue modeling in information-seeking dialogue and its applicalation, 20J14823, main proposer.
  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - JAPAN, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 19K12116, member.

    • NEWS & TOPICS

    • Our paper has been accepted for INTERSPEECH2022. (2022/06/15)
    • Our paper has been accepted for DialDoc@ACL2022. (2022/03/26)
    • Our paper has been accepted for HRI2022. (2022/01/08)
    • Our paper has been accepted for IEEE SSCI. (2021/10/01)
    • Our paper has been accepted for Transaction of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. (2021/05/02)
    • Our paper has been accepted for ROBOTDIAL at IJCAI-PRICAI. (2020/10/02)
    • Our paper has been accepted for IEEE Access. (2020/09/27)
    • This website has been released. (2020/04/01)