My CV in PDF.

Work Experience

T-Pro, (Ireland)

Speech Scientist Since Nov 2021

Working on improvement of automatic speech recognition and natural language processing systems for the healthcare domain.

Amazon TTS Team, (remote)

Japanese Language Engineer (part-time) Since Nov 2018

Continued to work for the Amazon TTS team as a part-time Japanese language engineer. My contribution was resolving pronunciation issues of the Japanese TTS.

Amazon TTS Team, Poland

Japanese Computational Linguist Oct 2015 - March 2017

I worked for the Amazon TTS team (former IVONA) as a Japanese computational linguist in a beautiful city of Gdansk, Poland.

My responsibilities included data annotaion, system evaluation, supervising voice recording sessions and adding features to text analysis of TTS. The most exciting was launch of Polly voices and Japanese Alexa.

Education

ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland

PhD in Computing April 2017 - November 2022

I learned many things and published a few papers during my PhD. My supervisor was Gareth Jones.

University of Edinburgh, UK

MSc Speech and Language Processing Oct 2014 - Sep 2015

Distinction

I learned foundations of natural language processing and speech processing in the beautiful city of Edinburgh.

Sophia University, Japan

BSc Russian Studies and Linguistics Concentration Apr 2009 - Mar 2014

I studied Russian language and linguistics for my first degree. I have always been a language enthusiast since then.