Curriculum Vitae (Sunao Hara, Ph.D)

http://www.a.cs.okayama-u.ac.jp/~hara/

Current position

• Assistant Processor of Human Centric Information Processing Laboratory (Abe Lab.)
• Faculty of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems

Research intererests

• Speech processing; especially, Spoken Dialog System, Automatic Speech Recognition, and Speech Synthesis
• Real-domain audio analysis; especially, Acoustic Event Detenction, and Acoustic Scene Classification
• Lifelog; especialy, Applications utilized Location-based lifelogs

Skills

• Language: Japanese (native), English
• Programming: C, C++, Java (Servlet, CLI tools, and Android), bash, Ruby, Python, Perl, HTML & CSS & JavaScript
• Unix-like OS: Debian, Ubuntu, Cent OS
• Registered Information Security Specialist (RISS)

Academic Backgound

Mar. 2003
School of Engineering, Nagoya University, (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Graduated.
(B.E.; Laboratory of Prof. Fumitada Itakura and Assoc.Prof. Kazuya Takeda)

Mar. 2005
Graduate shool of Information Science, Nagoya University, (Department of Media Science), Doctor Cource (Previouse Term), Completed.
(M.S.; Laboratory of Prof. Kazuya Takeda and Assoc.Prof. Katsunobu Itou)

Oct. 2011
Graduate shool of Information Science, Nagoya University, (Department of Media Science), Doctor Cource (Latter Term), Completed.
(Ph.D; Laboratory of Prof. Kazuya Takeda and Assoc.Prof. Norihide Kitaoka)

Work Experience

from Nov. 2011 to Aug. 2012
Assistant professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan (Laboratory of Prof. Kiyohiro Shikano)

from Sept. 2012 to March 2024
Assistant professor, Okayama University, Japan (Laboratory of Prof. Masanobu Abe)

• Division of Industrial Information Science (from 2012.09 to 2015.03)
• Division of Medical Bioengineering (from 2015.04 to 2018.03)
• Division of Industrial Information Science (from 2018.04 to 2019.03)
• Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems (from 2019.04 to 2021.03)
• Faculty of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems (from 2021.04 to 2024.03)

from Sept. 2012
Associate professor, Okayama University, Japan (PI of Multimodal Information Processing Laboratory)

• Faculty of Environmental, Life, Natural Science and Technology (from 2024.04)

Memberships of Academic Societies

• International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) (2010.6–)
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2016.6–)

• The Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) (2015.12–)

• Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ), JAPAN (2004–)
• Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), JAPAN (2007–)

• Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), JAPAN (2012.2–)

• Human Interface Society (HIS), JAPAN (2005–2022)