Curriculum vitae (short form)

Hideki Kawahara

Address:

Auditory Media Laboratory
Department of Information Sciences
Faculty of Systems Engineering
Wakayama University
930 Sakaedani, Wakayama, Wakayama 640-8510, Wakayama Japan

Contact Information

E-mail: kawahara@sys.wakayama-u.ac.jp
Phone: +81-73-457-8461
Facsimile: +81-73-457-8112

Research Interest

• Auditory signal processing
• Auditory basis of speech and sound perceeption
• Speech analysis, modification and synthesis
• Design reuse in singing synthesis
• Computational auditory scene analysis

Education

• Ph.D. 1977 Hokkaido University, Sapporo Japan
  Linear Predictive Analysis of Japanese Vowels
• M.S. 1974 Department of Electrical Engineering, Graduate School of Hokkaido University, Sapporo Japan
• B.S. 1972 Department of Electrical Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo Japan

Professional Experience

1977-1981 Researcher of Musashino Electrical Communications Laboratories

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, (NTT, now) (Here is a historical photo of the days.)

Modeling Telephone Transmission Quality Assessment by Human Experts.

1981-1983 Senior Researcher of Yokosuka ECL, (Yokosuka Research Center, now)

Broad-Band Telecommunication Systems Planning, (B-ISDN, now)

1983-1984 Senior Researcher of Musashino ECL, (Musashino Research Center, now)

Simultaneous Masking of Short Burst by Vowel Sounds

1984-1986 Management Staff of Musashino ECL

Assistant Director of Information Science Department

1986-1992 Senior Researcher Supervisor of NTT Basic Research Laboratories

Neural Network Modeling of Auditory Perception

1992-1997 Research Manager, ATR

Human Information Processing Research Laboratories, (ATR-HIP)

Head of Auditory Analysis and Speech Communications Group (Department 1)

1997 March Senior Researcher Supervisor of NTT Basic Research Laboratories

c/o ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories.

1997 April to present Professor, Wakayama University

Media Design Informatics Group, Design Information Sciences Department, Faculty of Systems Engineering

1997 - 2005 Invited researcher (part time), ATR

ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories

1997-2002 Principal invstigator, CREST project under Brain Science program

Funded by Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST)

2006-2007 Department head of Design Information Sciences

Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama Unieristy

2009 Director

Center for Information Science, Wakayama Unieristy