Biography of Tatsuya KAWAHARA

Tatsuya Kawahara
received B.E. in 1987, M.E. in 1989, and Ph.D. in 1995, all in information science, from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
From 1995 to 1996, he was a Visiting Researcher at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA. Currently, he is a Professor of School of Informatics, Kyoto University. From 2020 to 2023, he was the Dean of the School. Before that, he was also an Invited Researcher at ATR and NICT.

He has published more than 500 academic papers on automatic speech recognition, spoken language processing, and spoken dialogue systems, with total citations of more than 10,000. He has been conducting several projects including open-source speech recognition software Julius, the automatic transcription system deployed in the Japanese Parliament (Diet), and the autonomous android ERICA.

Dr. Kawahara received the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in 2012.
From 2003 to 2006, he was a member of IEEE SPS Speech Technical Committee. He hosted IEEE ASRU 2007 and SIGdial 2024 in Kyoto as the General Chair. He also served as a Tutorial Chair of INTERSPEECH 2010, a Local Arrangement Chair of ICASSP 2012, and a General Chair of APSIPA ASC 2020.
He was an editorial board member of Elsevier Journal of Computer Speech and Language and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. From 2018 to 2021, he served as the Editor-in-Chief of APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing.
Dr. Kawahara was the President of APSIPA in 2023-2024 and the Secretary General of ISCA in 2024-2025, and he is a Fellow of IEEE.