	Shigeki Sagayama Professor Intelligent Information Processing Laboratory Graduate School of Information Science Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology E-mail: sagayama@jaist.ac.jp

Shigeki Sagayama
Professor

Intelligent Information Processing Laboratory
Graduate School of Information Science
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
E-mail: sagayama@jaist.ac.jp

Research Interest
Speech recognition/synthesis, spoken language processing, human interface, pattern information processing, hand-written character recognition, music information processing, anthropomorphous agent systems
Research Career
Shigeki Sagayama was born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, in 1948. He received BE, ME, and PhD degrees from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1972, 1974, and 1998 respectively, all in Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics. He joined Electrical Communications Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, in 1974. From 1990 to 1993, he was responsible for the speech processing department at ATR Interpreting Telephony Research Laboratories and, from 1993 to 1998, he was with Speech and Acoustics Laboratory, NTT Human Interface Laboratories. Since 1998, he has been a Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Ishikawa, Japan. His research interests include speech recognition and synthesis, signal processing, natural language processing, and speech translation. He received National Invention Award from the Institute of Invention, Japan, in 1991, Technology Develpment Award from Acoustical Society of Japan, in 1994, Yamashita Memorial Research Award from Information Processing Society, Japan, in 1995, Paper Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communications Engineers, Japan, and Chief Official's Award for Research Achievement from the Science and Technology Agency, Japan, both in 1996. He is a member of the Acoustical Society of Japan, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers, Japan, the Information Processing Society, Japan, the IEEE, and ESCA (European Speech Communication Association).
Academic Memberships
- Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society (Currently, Associate Edit0or of IEEE Transaction of Speech and Audio Signal Processing; formally, Speech Technical Commitee Member, 1994-1999)
- Member of ESCA (European Speech Communication Association)
- Member of IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) (Currently, Co-Chair of Spoken Language Processing Special Interest Group, Chair of Speech Working Group, Associate Editor of Special Issue on Spoken Language Processing)
- Member of IEICE (Institute of Electronic, Information and Electric Engineers)
- Member of ASJ (Acoustic Society of Japan)
- Member of AVIRG (Audio-Visual Information Research Group)
- Associate Editor of Computer, Speech and Language (Academic Press)
Publications
Related Pages
- Front Page (http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~sagayama/)
- Intelligent Information Processing Laboratory, JAIST
- JAIST (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

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Shigeki Sagayama Professor

Shigeki Sagayama
Professor