Members

Group Leaders

Masataka Goto( October 2011 – March 2017 )
Prime Senior Researcher, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Research Director of OngaCREST Project.
Masataka Goto received the Doctor of Engineering degree from Waseda University in 1998. He is currently a Prime Senior Researcher and the Leader of the Media Interaction Group at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. Over the past 22 years, Masataka Goto has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals and international conferences and has received 38 awards, including several best paper awards, best presentation awards, the Tenth Japan Academy Medal, the Tenth JSPS PRIZE, and the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Young Scientists’ Prize). He has served as a committee member of over 90 scientific societies and conferences, including the General Chair of the 10th and 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conferences (ISMIR 2009 and 2014). In 2011, as the Research Director he began a 5-year research project (OngaCREST Project) on music technologies, a project funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (CREST, JST).

Shigeo Morishima( October 2011 – March 2017 )
Professor, Waseda University
 

Satoshi Nakamura( October 2011 – March 2017 )
Associate Professor, Meiji University
 

Kazuyoshi Yoshii( April 2014 – March 2017 )
Lecture, Kyoto University
 

Goto’s group

Masataka Goto( October 2011 – March 2017 )
Prime Senior Researcher, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Research Director of OngaCREST Project.
Masataka Goto received the Doctor of Engineering degree from Waseda University in 1998. He is currently a Prime Senior Researcher and the Leader of the Media Interaction Group at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. Over the past 22 years, Masataka Goto has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals and international conferences and has received 38 awards, including several best paper awards, best presentation awards, the Tenth Japan Academy Medal, the Tenth JSPS PRIZE, and the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Young Scientists’ Prize). He has served as a committee member of over 90 scientific societies and conferences, including the General Chair of the 10th and 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conferences (ISMIR 2009 and 2014). In 2011, as the Research Director he began a 5-year research project (OngaCREST Project) on music technologies, a project funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (CREST, JST).

Masahiro Hamasaki( October 2011 – March 2017 )
Senior Researcher, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Masahiro Hamasaki is currently working as a Research Scientist at AIST. He completed his PhD studies in March 2005 at Soken University. His doctoral dissertation deals with knowledge sharing system that utilize social networks.

Tomoyasu Nakano( October 2011 – March 2017 )
Senior Researcher, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Tomoyasu Nakano is currently working as a Research Scientist at AIST. He completed his PhD studies in March 2008 at University of Tsukuba. His doctoral dissertation deals with music information processing systems that utilize the singing voice.

Satoru Fukayama( April 2013 – March 2017 )
Researcher, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
 

Jun Kato( April 2014 – March 2017 )
Researcher, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Jun Kato is a Human-Computer Interaction researcher at AIST, where he works on designing tools for programming interactive media content. He received a Ph.D in Computer Science from The University of Tokyo in March, 2014. Prior to graduation, he worked as research intern at Microsoft Research Asia, Redmond, and Adobe Research Seattle. He gained academic recognition such as Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship 2012 and ACM CHI 2013 Best Paper Honorable Mention.

Kosetsu Tsukuda( April 2015 – March 2017 )
Researcher, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
 

Masa Ogata( April 2016 – March 2017 )
Researcher, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Masa Ogata is a Human-Computer Interaction researcher at AIST, where he works on human interface applying embodiment. He received a Ph.D in Computer Science from Keio University in March, 2016. Prior to graduation, he worked as research intern at ATR and Microsoft Research Asia. He gained academic recognition such as Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship 2013 and ACM CHI 2015 Best Paper Honorable Mention.

Jordan B. L. Smith( November 2014 – March 2017 )
Post-Doctral Research Scientist, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Jordan completed his Ph.D. at Queen Mary University of London in October 2014. His dissertation focuses on the causes of listener disagreements in the perception of music structure, and combines music information retrieval with music theoretic and cognitive approaches. Previously, while completing his M.A. in music technology at McGill University, he planned and implemented the collection of ground truth annotations for the Structural Analysis of Large Amounts of Music Information (SALAMI) project. He has also received an M.Sc. in operations research engineering from the University of Southern California and an A.B. in music and physics from Harvard College. Considered broadly, his research centres on how listeners recognize and understand patterns.

Yuta Kawasaki( December 2011 – March 2017 )
Creative Engineer, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
 

Keisuke Ishida( April 2012 – March 2017 )
Creative Engineer, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
 

Takahiro Inoue( November 2012 – March 2017 )
Creative Engineer, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
 

Hitohiro Tanaka( April 2012 – March 2017 )
Creative Engineer, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
 

Tomoki Toda( April 2012 – March 2017 )
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Tomoki Toda earned his D.E. degree from the Graduate School of Information Science, NAIST, Nara, Japan, in 2003. He was a Research Fellow of JSPS in the Graduate School of Engineering, NITECH, Aichi, Japan, from 2003 to 2005. He was an Assistant Professor of the Graduate School of Information Science, NAIST from 2005 to 2011, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He was also a Visiting Researcher at the LTI, CMU, Pittsburgh, USA, from October 2003 to September 2004 and at the CUED, Cambridge, UK, from March to August 2008. He was a member of the Speech and Language TC of the IEEE SPS from 2007 to 2009. He received 8 paper awards including the 2009 Young Author Best Paper Award from the IEEE SPS.

Morishima’s Group

Shigeo Morishima( October 2011 – March 2017 )
Professor, Waseda University
 

Naoya Iwamoto( February 2014 – March 2017 )
4th year Ph.D student, Waseda University
 

Tsukasa Fukusato( April 2014 – March 2017 )
3rd year Ph.D student, Waseda University
 

Takuya Kato( June 2015 – March 2017 )
1st year Ph.D student, Waseda University
 

Wataru Akahori( July 2014 – March 2017 )
2nd year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Wakana Asahina( July 2014 – March 2017 )
2nd year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Haruki Sato( July 2014 – March 2017 )
2nd year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Fumiya Narita( October 2015 – March 2017 )
2nd year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Savkin Pavel( May 2016 – March 2017 )
2nd year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Shugo Yamaguchi( May 2016 – March 2017 )
2nd year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Ryo Kakitsuka( June 2015 – March 2017 )
1st year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Takayuki Nakatsuka( June 2015 – March 2017 )
1st year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Yoshihiro Fukuhara( October 2015 – March 2017 )
1st year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Shoichi Furukawa( April 2016 – March 2017 )
1st year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Tsukasa Nozawa( April 2016 – March 2017 )
1st year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Keisuke Mochida( May 2016 – March 2017 )
1st year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Tadahiro Ozawa( May 2016 – March 2017 )
1st year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Satoko Matsuda( October 2013 – March 2017 )
Research Assistant, Waseda University
 

Nakamura’s Group

Satoshi Nakamura( October 2011 – March 2017 )
Associate Professor, Meiji University
 

Homei Miyashita( October 2012 – March 2017 )
Professor, Meiji University
 

Keita Watanabe( April 2013 – March 2017 )
Lecture, Meiji University
 

Ryo Oshima( November 2013 – March 2017 )
Meiji University
 

Kunihiro Kato( November 2015 – March 2017 )
2nd year Ph.D student, Meiji University
 

Haruki Takahashi( November 2015 – March 2017 )
2nd year Ph.D student, Meiji University
 

Yuta Wakabayashi( November 2015 – March 2017 )
2nd year master’s degree student, Meiji University
 

Yo Akiyama( April 2016 – March 2017 )
1st year master’s degree student, Meiji University
 

Kenta Sato( June 2015 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Meiji University
 

Shinjiro Niino( June 2015 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Meiji University
 

Yoshiki Maki( June 2015 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Meiji University
 

Kohei Matsuda( June 2015 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Meiji University
 

Keiji Matsui( June 2015 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Meiji University
 

Masayuki Tamura( June 2015 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Meiji University
 

Naoki Ono( June 2015 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Meiji University
 

Shunki Tsuchiya( August 2015 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Meiji University
 

Koki Maeshima( August 2015 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Meiji University
 

Kazuki Tajima( April 2016 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Meiji University
 

Yuji Shiratori( April 2016 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Meiji University
 

Takumi Kamiyama( April 2016 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Meiji University
 

Daiki Usuba( April 2016 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Meiji University
 

Mayuka Doi( April 2016 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Meiji University
 

Raika Toriyama( April 2016 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Meiji University
 

Masahiro Miyashiro( April 2016 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Meiji University
 

Junki Saito( June 2016 – March 2017 )
3rd year student, Meiji University
 

Kazuyuki Hikawa( June 2016 – March 2017 )
3rd year student, Meiji University
 

Natsumi Kubota( June 2016 – March 2017 )
3rd year student, Meiji University
 

Hiroaki Yamaura( June 2016 – March 2017 )
3rd year student, Meiji University
 

Kazuki Abe( June 2016 – March 2017 )
3rd year student, Meiji University
 

Tsubasa Fukuchi( June 2016 – March 2017 )
3rd year student, Meiji University
 

Shota Yamanaka( April 2016 – March 2017 )
visiting researcher, Meiji University
 

Takehiro Yamamoto( October 2011 – March 2017 )
Assistant Professor, Kyoto University
 

Yoshii’s group

Kazuyoshi Yoshii( April 2014 – March 2017 )
Lecture, Kyoto University
 

Katsutoshi Itoyama( April 2014 – March 2017 )
Assistant Professor, Kyoto University
 

Eita Nakamura( August 2015 – March 2017 )
Kyoto University
 

Misato Otaki( August 2014 – March 2017 )
2nd year master’s degree student, Kyoto University
 

Tsubasa Fukuda( April 2015 – March 2017 )
2nd year master’s degree student, Kyoto University
 

Yuta Ojima( August 2015 – March 2017 )
1st year master’s degree student, Kyoto University
 

Ryo Nishikimi( August 2015 – March 2017 )
1st year master’s degree student, Kyoto University
 

Keisuke Tsushima( April 2016 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Kyoto University
 

Yusuke Wada( April 2016 – March 2017 )
4th year student, Kyoto University
 

Daichi Mochihasi( April 2014 – March 2017 )
Associate Professor, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
 

Previous Member

Hiromasa Fujihara( October 2011 – August 2012 )
Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
 

Philippe Hamel ( November 2012 – May 2013 )
Post-Doctral Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
 

Matthew Davies ( March 2013 – December 2013 )
Post-Doctral Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
 

Kosuke Hamasaki( April 2012 – March 2014 )
2nd year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Akinobu Maejima( October 2011 – May 2014 )
Visiting Professor, Waseda University
 

Matt McVicar ( September 2013 – October 2014 )
Post-Doctral Research Scientist, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
 

Kazutaka Kurihara( October 2011 – March 2015 )
Associate Professor, Tsuda College
 

Hayato Ohya( April 2012 – March 2015 )
3rd year Ph.D student, Waseda University
 

Shoto Sasaki( April 2012 – March 2015 )
2nd year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Taro Masuda( April 2012 – March 2015 )
2nd year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Narumi Okada( April 2014 – March 2015 )
2nd year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Tsubasa Yumura( December 2013 – March 2015 )
Meiji University
 

Yukara Ikemiya( April 2014 – March 2015 )
2nd year master’s degree student, Kyoto University
 

Graham Percival( June 2014 – May 2015 )
Post-Doctral Research Scientist, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
 

Tatsunori Hirai( October 2011 – March 2016 )
3rd year Ph.D student, Waseda University
 

Zhang Zhuopeng( July 2014 – March 2016 )
3rd year Ph.D student, Waseda University
 

Chie Furusawa( July 2014 – March 2016 )
2nd year master’s degree student, Waseda University
 

Satoshi Maruo( August 2014 – March 2016 )
2nd year master’s degree student, Kyoto University
 

Ayaka Dobashi( April 2015 – March 2016 )
2nd year master’s degree student, Kyoto University
 

Tomohiko Nakamura( April 2014 – March 2016 )
3rd year Ph.D student, Tokyo University