Curriculum Vitae


EDUCATION:

University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Dec 2009. (Thesis: Learning to Rank with Partially-labeled Data)
Committee: Katrin Kirchhoff (chair), Mari Ostendorf, Jeff Bilmes, Marina Meila, Bill Noble, Efthi Efthimiadis--in memoriam
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Mar 2006.
Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, May 2003.

EXPERIENCE:

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Senior Research Scientist (Oct 2015 to present) - Human Language Technology Center of Excellence
Assistant Research Professor (Feb 2016 to present) - Department of Computer Science
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, JAPAN
Assistant Professor (Mar 2012 to Oct 2015) - Graduate School of Information Science
NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, JAPAN
Research Associate (Sept 2009 to Feb 2012).
R&D in Statistical Machine Translation.
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
Intern (Summer 2007, 2005)
Research in Machine Learning for Operating Systems. (Mentor: Sumit Basu, John Dunagan)
Research in Multilingual Dependency Parsing. (Mentor: Simon Corston-Oliver)
NTT Cyberspace Laboratories, Yokosuka, JAPAN
JETRO Intern (July 2003 - Dec 2003).
R&D in Singing Voice Synthesis. (Advisor: Yushi Aono)
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA
Intern (Summer 2002).
Developed code for GPS satellite error estimation. (Advisor: Anthea Coster)

AWARDS & HONORS:


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:


RESEARCH GRANTS:

Research Grants at JHU:
  1. IARPA MATERIAL (2017-2019), Co-PI
    • JHU QuickSTIR team, lead PI: Philipp Koehn; Co-PI: Kevin Duh, Ben Van Durme, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Dan Povey
  2. Amazon Research Award (2017-2018), PI
    • Multi-objective Hyperparameter Search for Fast and Accurate Neural Machine Translation
Research Grants in Japan (2012-2015), as Principal Investigator (PI):
  1. JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) #26730121 (04/2014-10/2015)
    • Dynamic Context-Dependent Word Representations for Natural Language Processing
  2. Microsoft Research CORE Project (04/2013-06/2015)
    • Incorporating Knowledge Bases into Deep Learning
  3. JSPS Grant-in-Aid Research Activity Start-up #24800041 (08/2012-03/2014)
    • Learning Robust Word Representations for Natural Language Processing
Research Grants in Japan (2012-2015), as Co-PI:
  1. JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) #26240035 (04/2014-03/2017)
    • Improving Dependency Parsing with Pattern Mining and Coordinate Structure Analysis (PI: Prof. Yuji Matsumoto)
  2. JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) #26280055 (04/2014-03/2018)
  3. JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) #24240032 (04/2012-03/2017)
  4. JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) #23240020 (04/2011-03/2014)
    • A Joint Approach to Natural Language Processing Using Global Information (PI: Prof. Yuji Matsumoto)