Tohru Nagano

Since joining IBM in 1998, he has been engaged in research on automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis, and natural language processing. From 2009 to 2010, he served as a technical assistant to the director at IBM Research - Tokyo. In 2016, he earned a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Tsukuba. He has applied speech recognition technology to various business fields and received awards from the academic community. He is a member of the IEEE, the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ), and a senior member of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• IPSJ Senior Member (2017/10-)
• Representative member of IPSJ. (2017/4-2018/3)
• Program committee member of the 79th IPSJ National Convention. (2016/4-2017/6)
• Chief Examiner of Editorial Committee of IPSJ Magazine (2016/4-2017/3), Secretary (2015/4-2016/3), Member (2013/4-2017/3)
• Steering committee member, IEICE Technical Committee on Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication (NLC), (1999/5-2003/4)

AWARDS

• IPSJ Industrial Achievement Award, 'Research and deployment of Watson Speech-to-Text, cloud-based speech recognition system with multiple language support', 2020
• Technical Development Award, 'The creation of the real-time call center agent support system using Watson Speech To Text, a cloud-based automatic speech recognition service', The Acoustical Society of Japan. 2018
• Best Paper Award of the 59th IPSJ National Convention. 1999