Jan. 1979: Born in Sapporo, Japan.
Mar. 2002: BSc. from Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science.
Mar. 2004: MSc. from Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University.
Mar. 2007: PhD in Informatics, Kyoto University.
From Apr. 2005 to Mar. 2007: Research Fellow (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
From Apr. 2007 to Mar. 2010: PostDoc researcher for the CrestMuse Project, Foundation of Technology Supporting the Creation of Digital Media Contents, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), belonging to Katayose Laboratory, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University.
From Apr. 2010 to Mar. 2013: Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science and System Analysis, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University.
From Apr. 2013 to Mar. 2014: Assistant Professor at Department of Information Science, Nihon University (due to the name change of the department).
From Apr. 2014 to Mar. 2020: Associate Professor, Nihon University.
From Apr. 2020 to present: Professor, Nihon University.
Research interests: music informatics, computational auditory scene analysis, and their related fields.
My PhD Thesis: "Computational Musical Instrument Recognition and Its Application to Content-based Music Information Retrieval" [PDF] (The 2nd Kyoto University President Award).
Member of IPSJ, IEICE, JSAI, ASJ, and IEEE (Signal Processing Society).
Publication List (incl. Japanese papers)
CrestMuseXML: A Framework for Developing Music Information Processing Systems [Details]
Instrument Recognition in Polyphonic Music and Its Application to Content-based Music Information Retrieval [Details]
Bassline Feature Extraction and Its Application to Content-based Music Informaion Retrieval [Details]
Music Information Processing Architecture based on Bayesian Networks [Details]
N-gram-based Melody Appropriateness Determination and Its Application to Improvisation Supporting System [Details]