Atsushi Nakamura received the B.E., M.E. and Dr.Eng. degrees from
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in
1985, 1987 and 2001, respectively.
In 1987, he joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Corporation and engaged in
the research and development of a network service platform,
the Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN), that can provide
telecommunication services flexibly and network-widely, at Musashino Electrical
Communication Laboratories (ECL), Tokyo. His work at the ECL included the research on
designing efficient and reliable service-node systems for the AIN and the studies on
application of speech processing technologies into telecommunication
services. During his career at the ECL, he experienced the development of several large-scale
testbed systems for advanced telecommunications.
From February, 1994 to March, 2000, he was with Advanced
Telecommunications Research (ATR) Institute International, Kyoto, as a Senior Researcher,
and was working on the research of spontaneous speech recognition,
the construction of spoken language database and the development of
speech translation systems. His dissertation was organized based on
these works at the ATR. Also, he directed the development of a cellular-phone
based speech translation system which is easily accessible anywhere when users have
only a cellular-phone. Since its first release in November, 1999, this testbed system was
frequently demonstrated on TV news programs and widely featured in newspapers as a hot topic.
From April, 2000 to March, 2014, he was with NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto,
and engaged in the research of speech recognition under real environments, application of
machine learning techniques into spoken language processing, etc., at the head of Signal
Processing Resrach Group.
Since April, 2014, Dr. Nakamura has been with Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Nagoya City
University.
Also, he serves or served as a lecturer for his alma mater, Kyushu University, for Nagoya
University, Aichi, Japan, and for Kansai University, Osaka, Japan, and serves as a visiting
or invited professor for Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, for Osaka University, Osaka, Japan,
and for Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan.
Dr. Nakamura is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of the Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), and the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ).
He also plays a key role of academic functions, such as Regular Reviewer for journal papers of
the IEICE and of the ASJ, Secretary at Kansai Chapter of the ASJ (02-03), Councilor at Kansai
Chapter of the ASJ (07-), Vice Chair at Kansai Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society (08-), and Member of IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee (09-).