Satoshi Nakamura

Satoshi Nakamura (中村哲) 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.

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.

Awards

• 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