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He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in physics from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1983 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2004. In 1986, he joined NEC Corporation, Japan, and was involved in research on automatic speech recognition. From 1990 to 1991, he was a Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, NJ. Since 2007, he has been with Yahoo Japan Corporation, where he engaged in research in speech recognition. He is a member of IEEE, ASJ, IEICE, and IPSJ.