I am a 2nd year PhD student at The University of Tokyo. I am working on Computational Linguistics / Natural Language Processing. I am a daydreamer loving music and climbing.

Research interests

My research lies at the intersection of speech technology and developmental psychology. I am particularly interested in how humans acquire and process natural language, especially in the speech modality.

From a scientific perspective, I take a constructive approach for understanding human language acquisition and processing—for example, by attempting to reverse-engineer human language acquisition. From an engineering perspective, I focus on text-free language modeling and its evaluation.

My background is in natural language processing, and I have also worked on a range of topics in text-based NLP. Recently I am interested in the relationship between spoken and written language—for example, how the emergence of written language influences the structure and function of language systems as a whole.