Awards and Funds

Awards Received

December 2021
Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Sadaoki Furui Prize Paper Award 2021 (HP)
June 2021
Information Processing Society of Japan 2021 Otogaku symposium Best Presentation Award (HP)
December 2019
IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) 2019 Young Author Best Paper Award (HP)
November 2018
Best Paper Award, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Annual Summit and Conference 2018
March 2018
The Telecom System Technology Award (Encouragement Award), The Telecommunication Advancement Foundation (TAF) (HP)
March 2018
The 13th Itakura Prize Innovative Young Researcher Award, The Acoustical Society of Japan (HP)
November 2017
Best Paper Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Japan (HP)
September 2017
FY2016 22nd Nagakura Research Incentive Award, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies) (HP)
July 2017
21st Annual Best of Computing Notable Books and Articles in Computing of 2016 (G. Mathematics Of Computing), ACM Computing Reviews (HP)
March 2017
Seventh (FY2016) Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Ikushi Prize (HP)
March 2016
The Telecom System Technology Student Award, The Telecommunication Advancement Foundation (TAF) (HP)
November 2015
Student Conference Paper Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Japan (HP)
September 2015
2015 The 1st Best Student Award, National Institute of Informatics (Article)
March 2015
The 37th Awaya Prize Young Researcher Award, The Acoustical Society of Japan (HP)
November 2014
2013 Technical Group on Signal Processing Young Researcher's Award, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (HP)
May 2014
Total Exemption from Repayment of Scholarship Loan for Students with Outstanding Results, Japan Student Services Organization
March 2014
Master's Best Student Award, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
March 2014
NCSP 2014 Student Paper Award, 2014 RISP International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits, Communications and Signal Processing
November 2013
The 8th Student Presentation Award, The Acoustical Society of Japan (HP)
March 2010
The Best Graduation Research Award, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Takamatsu National College of Technology
March 2010
Engineers Encouragement Award, The Shikoku section of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Competitive Funds

April 2022–March 2026
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (KAKENHI) "Mathematical Deepening of Audio Source Separation Based on Independence and Amplitude/Phase Modeling and Development of Multimodal Hearing-Aid System (Grant No. 22H03652)" (Principal Investigator)
April 2022–March 2025
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (KAKENHI) "Fundamental Study of Continuous Blood Pressure Measurement Using a Wearable Sensor Attached to Nail Surface (Grant No. 22H03982)" (Co-Investigator)
April 2021–March 2022
Ono Charitable Trust for Acoustics, "Analysis of Relative Characteristics for Multiple Musical Instruments Based on Matrix Decomposition Theory and Deep Learning" (Principal Investigator)
April 2019–March 2022
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (KAKENHI), "Unification of Deep Learning and Generalized Mathematical Model for Independence-Based Audio Source Separation (Grant No. 19K20306)" (Principal Investigator)
April 2019–March 2023
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (KAKENHI), "Audio Augmented Reality and Extension of Audio Communication Ability Based on Small Data Machine Learning Theory (Grant No. 19H01116)" (Co-Investigator)
August 2017–March 2019
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity start-up (KAKENHI), "Extended Theories of Audio Source Separation Based on Statistical Independence and Various Mathematical Structures (Grant No. 17H06572)" (Principal Investigator)
April 2017–March 2020
SECOM Science and Technology Foundation "Co-Creative Audio Sensing Based on Sparse Signal Representation With Higher-Order Statistics Control and Its Application to Social Systems" (Co-Investigator)
Jun 2015
Grants for Researchers Attending International Conferences, The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (TAF)
April 2014–March 2017
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (DC1) "Multi-Dimensional Media Processing Based on Sparse Signal Decompositions and Its Application to Audio Augmented Reality (Grant No. 14J10796)" (Principal Investigator)
April 2014–March 2017
JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists DC1
April 2013
Grants for Researchers Attending International Conferences, NEC C&C