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
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
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 INTERSPEECHL2022. (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)