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 of the CREST project of Japan Science and Technology Agency. From 2007 to 2008, he was also a visiting scholar of Speech Lab of Boston University. His current research interests include the links between production and perception of speech, the functional brain imaging and the 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	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

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

April 2010 - present	Secretary, Technical Committee of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, ASJ
May 2007 - present	Committee Member, Technical Committee on Speech, IEICE/ASJ

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