Yasunari Obuchi

Yasunari Obuchi (M'07) received B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics in 1988 and 1990, respectively and a Ph.D. in information science and technology in 2006, all from the University of Tokyo. Since joining Hitachi in 1992, he has worked in their Central Research Laboratory and Advanced Research Laboratory. He was a visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University from 2002 to 2003 and a visiting researcher at Waseda University from 2005 to 2010. He is currently a senior researcher in Hitachi's Central Research Laboratory. His research interests include robust speech recognition, spoken dialog systems, speech recognition in small devices, speech-to-speech translation, language identification, emotion recognition, and microphone arrays. Dr. Obuchi was a co-recipient of the Technology Development Award of the Acoustical Society of Japan in 2000. He is a member of the IEICE, IPSJ, and ASJ.