Keikichi Hirose, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Information and Communication Engineering,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo
Research interest: speech processing and natural language processing,
especially prosody of speech

Education and Academic Positions

• 1949 Dec 3: Born at Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
• 1972: Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering, University of Tokyo
• 1977: Doctor of Engineering (Ph.D.), University of Tokyo
• 1977-80: Lecturer, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, University of Tokyo
• 1980-94: Associate Professor, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, University of Tokyo
• 1987-88: Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 1994-95: Professor, Dept. of Electronic Engineering
• 1995-99: Professor, Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering
• 1997-99: The Head of Department, Dept. of ICE
• 1999-2004: Professor, Dept. of Frontier Informatics, Grad. School of Frontier Sciences
• 2004: The Head of Department, Dept. of Frontier Informatics
• 2004-: Professor, Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
• 2006-08: The Head of Department, Dept. of ICE

Lectures

• Circuit Theory II
• Language and Speech Information Processing
• Acoustic Phonetics
• Speech Language Information Processing

Service in Professional Societies

• Chief Editor, Journal of Signal Processing (1997- )
• Project Leader, "Realization of advanced spoken language information processing from prosodic features," Scientific Research on Priority Areas, Grant in Aid on Scientific Research, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japanese Government (2000-2005)
• Representative & Council Member, The Acoustical Society of Japan (2001- )
• Speech Prosody 2004 General Chair
• Chair of Speech Research Committee, IEICE/ASJ, Japan (2003-2005)
• ISCA International Advisory Committee Member (2005-2009)
• Chair, IEEE SP Society, Tokyo Chapter (2007-2008)
• Fellow, IEICE Japan (2007)
• International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits and Signal Processing 2008, General Chair
• ISCA Board member (2009- )
• ETRI Journal Editor (2009- )
• INTERSPEECH 2010, General Chair (2010)

Publications

See the following CV.

• Curriculum Vitae (in English) [pdf 479 KB]

Links

• Hirose & Minematsu Laboratory
• EEIC Engineering Department
• Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
• University of Tokyo

Contact

103D4, Faculty of Engineering Bldg. 2
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
MAIL: hirose [at] gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp