
Seya Kawano
Ph.D Student
Member of Spoken Dialogue Group,
Augmented Human Communication Laboratory (AHC lab),
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST),
Supervisor: Satoshi Nakamura, Koichiro Yoshino
JSPS Research Fellow (DC2)
2020/04 - 2022/03
EDUCATION
Ph.D Student, Division of Information Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2018/04 - Present.
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
Pat-time Rsearcher, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Robotics Project, 2020/11 - 2021/03
JSPS Research Fellow (DC2), 2020/04 - 2022/03.
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 - Present.
Teaching Assistant, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2017/09 - 2017/12.
Awards
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 Papaer 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, JSPS-Fellowship (DC2), Dialogue modeling in information-seeking dialogue and its applicalation(20J14823)
NEWS & TOPICS
- This website has been released. (2020/04/01)
- Our paper has been accepted for IEEE Access. (2020/09/27)
- Our paper has been accepted for ROBOTDIAL in conjunction with IJCAI-PRICAI. (2020/10/02)