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President's Biography

Katsuhiko Shirai

Katsuhiko Shirai President of Waseda University Born in Dalian, China in 1939; Raised in Tokyo
Date of Birth: September 24, 1939（age: 70）

Education

  • March 1963 - B. E. in Electrical Engineering, School of Science & Engineering, Waseda University
  • March 1965 - M. E. in Electrical Engineering, Graduate School of Science & Engineering, Waseda University
  • March 1968 - Completed all requirements for the doctoral degree except for the doctoral dissertation, Graduate School of Science & Engineering, Waseda University

Field of Specialization

  • Intelligence Science and Technology; Speech Science

Degree

  • Doctor of Engineering, Waseda University, March 15, 1973

Work Experience

Posts Held at Waseda

April 1965-March 1968　Research Associate, School of Science & Engineering, Waseda University
April 1968-March 1970　Assistant Professor, School of Science & Engineering, Waseda University
April 1970-March 1975　Associate Professor, School of Science & Engineering, Waseda University
April 1975-Present　Professor, School of Science & Engineering, Waseda University
April 1982-May 1990　Director, Information System Center, Waseda University
September 1992-October 1994　Associate Dean, School of Science & Engineering, Waseda University
November 1994-November 1998　Dean, Academic Affairs and Executive Director, International Center, Waseda University
November 1998-October, 2002　Vice President for Academic Affairs, Waseda University
November 2002-Present　President, Waseda University

Other Posts and Responsibilites

  • *Chairman, ISSD (International Symposium on Speech Dialogue) (Nov. 1993)
  • *President of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI),(June 1998 to May 2000)
  • *Fellow, The institute of Electronics,Information and Communication Engineers (Sep. 2001)
  • *Honorary Doctor,Korea University(Nov. 2003)
  • *NHK Broadcast Cultural Award, Japan Broadcasting Association (Mar. 2005)
  • *Professor Emeritus, Fudan University(Sep. 2005)
  • *Honorary Doctor, Shanghai University(Nov.2005)
  • *Professor Emeritus, Beijing Foreign Studies University (Dec. 2005)
  • *Professor Emeritus, Peking University (Dec. 2005)
  • *President, the Japan Association of Private Colleges and Universities
  • *Member, Broadcasting Technology Council, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
  • *Member, Council for University Chartering and School Corporations, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
  • *Member, Council for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
  • *Member, Central Education Council, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
  • *President, Japan Network For International Education

Publications

Books, Translations

  • Co-author,Mechanism of animals, Asakura Publising, 1980
  • Co-author,Human and Machine Dialog with Speech,Ohmsha, 1998
  • Co-author,Iwanami Koza Language Science 2 /Speech, Iwanami Shoten, 1998
  • Co-author,"Recent Progress in Japanese Speech Synthesis" Japanese Technology Reviews, vol. 31, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1999
  • Co-author,Signal Analysis and Digital Processing, Baifukan, 1999

Selected Articles

  • "Estimation of articulatory parameters from speech sound" (IEICE Trans.1978)
  • "Estimation of articulatory motion using neural networks"（Journal of Phonetics 1991）
  • "Phrase recognition in conversational speech using prosodic and phonemic information"（IEICE Trans.on Information and Systems 1993）.
  • "Evaluation of the ICAI System for Assisting Speaker of Japanese to Learn Korean Writing" (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers' Journal 1996)
  • "Speech enhancement based on neural predictive hidden markov model"（Signal Processing 1998）
  • "Control of Non-Language Information in the Exchange of Conversational Data with Humanoid Robots" (Information Processing Society of Japan, Journal 1998)
  • "Japanese Large-Vocabulary Continuous-Speech Recognition Using a Newspaper Corpus and Broadcast News" (Speech Communication, 1999)
  • "Multi-Dimensional Safety of High-Speed Digital AV Framework and Its Characteristics" (Information Processing Society of Japan, Journal 2000)
  • "Automatic Production System of TV Programs with Subtitles for the Sight- and Hearing-Impaired" (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers' Journal 2001)
  • "Mechanism of Generating Meta-utterance with Predicting Changes of Mental States in Spoken Dialogue" (Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, 2002)
  • "Noisy Speech Recognition by Multi-band Modeling Based on Feature-level Combination" (Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, 2002)
  • "Knowledge Representation of the Melody and Rhythm in Koto Songs" (Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2003)
  • "Sounds of Speech Based Spoken Document Categorization: A Subword Representation Method" (IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2004)
  • "Construction of the Walking Motion Model for Animated Characters' Motion" (Proc. of EuroIMSA, 2005)

Awards

  • The 56th NHK Broadcast Cultural Award, Japan Broadcasting Association (July, 2005)
  • Grande Ufficiale OSSI-Ordine della Stella della SOlidarieta' Italiana (July, 2007)