Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Sadao Hiroya was born in Japan on June 1976. He received the B.S. degree from Tokyo University of Science in 1999 and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He joined NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he was also a researcher in the CREST project of the Japan Science and Technology Agency. From 2007 to 2008, he was a visiting scholar at Boston University, USA. His current research interests include the links between production and perception of speech, functional brain imaging and acoustic-to-articulatory inversion problems.
He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), and the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ).

Work Experience

April 2001 - present	Distinguished Researcher & Senior Research Scientist	NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
October 2007 - September 2008	Research Fellow	Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University
May 2001 - November 2003	Researcher	Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST) project, Japan Science and Technology Agency

Education

October 2005 - September 2006	Department of Information Processing, Tokyo Institute of Technology	Ph.D.
April 1999 - March 2001	Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology	M.E.
April 1995 - March 1999	Department of Applied Mathematics, Tokyo University of Science	B.S.

Awards

September 2017	A letter of thanks for associate editor on IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
March 2015	The 2nd ASJ Activity Contribution Award
April 2014	NTT CS Lab Director's Research and Development Award
March 2006	The 1st Itakura Prize Innovative Young Researcher Award by the Acoustical Society of Japan
March 2004	The 4th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2003) Presentation Award

Professional activity

May 2023 - present	Director, Editorial Affairs, ASJ
May 2023 - present	Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Committee, ASJ
June 2021 - June 2023	Editor of Technical Paper, Editorial Committee, ASJ
May 2019 - May 2023	Delegates, ASJ
June 2019 - June 2021	Duputy Editor of Technical Paper, Editorial Committee, ASJ
December 2017 - September 2023	Committee Member, Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society
August 2016 - August 2021	Committee Member, Research Committee on Speech Communication, ASJ
May 2015 - June 2019	Associate Editor, Editorial Committee, ASJ
May 2013 - May 2019	Associate Editor, Acoustical Science Series, ASJ
May 2013 - May 2019	Associate Editor, IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (Japanese Edition)
April 2012 - March 2017	Part-time lecturer at Tokyo Woman's Christian University
April 2010 - March 2013	Secretary, Technical Committee of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, ASJ
May 2007 - May 2013	Committee Member, Technical Committee on Speech, IEICE/ASJ

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