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Project Researcher, International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo I am interested in applying developmental learning approaches for enabling skill acquisition in robots and for gaining a better understanding of human learning. In my Ph.D. project I investigated how robots can acquire articulation skills by goal-directed exploration and in interaction with a human tutor. Further interests include machine learning, in particular, neural networks, and speech recognition and synthesis. |
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Career
Career Experience
April 2019 – present | Project Researcher, International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo |
December 2017 – March 2019 | Researcher, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology |
September 2015 – December 2015 | Visiting Research Student, Emergent Robotics Lab, Osaka University |
January 2013 – July 2013 | Graduate Assistant in the “SoziRob” Project, Applied Informatics Group, Bielefeld University |
April 2012 – September 2012 | Special Research Student, Emergent Robotics Lab, Osaka University |
November 2011 – February 2012 | Graduate Assistant in the “Dialog Demonstrator” Project, Applied Informatics Group, Bielefeld University |
Education
August 2018 | Ph.D. in Computer Science, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University |
September 2013 | Master of Science, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University |
September 2010 | Bachelor of Science, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University |
Awards
- Dissertation Award 2018 of the University Society Westphalia-Lippe for Ph.D. thesis on “Learning How to Speak: Goal Space Exploration for Articulatory Skill Acquisition” (January 2019)
- Excellent Poster Presentation Award at Workshop on the Mechanisms of Brain and Mind, Hokkaido, Japan (January 2019)
- Best Oral Presentation at IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob) (September 2016)
- Ph.D. research grant of CITEC (Cognitive Interaction Technology Center, Bielefeld) graduate school
- PROMOS scholarship of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for semester abroad (April – September 2012)
- “Deutschlandstipendium”: Achievement scholarship granted by the German regional foundation Stiftung Studienfonds OWL (October 2011 – September 2012)