Satoshi Nakamura

Satoshi Nakamura (中村哲, Nakamura Satoshi) is a Professor at the Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. He is also an honorary professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.

Nakamura's current research interests include speech-to-speech translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, spoken dialog systems, multi-modal communication, and brain activity sensing in linguistics.^[1]

Education and professional career

1981: B.S. from Kyoto Institute of Technology
1992: Ph.D. from Kyoto University
1994-2000: Associate Professor of Graduate School of Information Science at Nara Institute of Science and Technology
2000-2008: Director of ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories
2007-2008: Vice-president of ATR
2009-2010: Director-General of Keihanna Research Laboratories and Executive Director of Knowledge Creating Communication Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Current: Director of Augmented Human Communication Laboratory and full professor of Graduate School of Information Science at Nara Institute of Science and Technology.

2007: Yamashita Research Award, Kiyasu Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan
2007: Telecom System Award
2007: AAMT Nagao Award
2007: Docomo Mobile Science Award
2008: ASJ Award for Distinguished Achievements in Acoustics
2010: Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2011: Commendation for Science and Technology in Information Technology by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
2012: Antonio Zampolli Prize from LREC

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