ProfessorKomei Sugiura

Komei Sugiura is Professor at Keio University, Japan. He received his B.E. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2002, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Informatics in 2004 and 2007, respectively, all from Kyoto University. From 2006 to 2008, he was Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and from 2006 to 2009, he was also with ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories. From 2008 to 2020, he was with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, before joining Keio University in 2020. His research interests include multimodal language understanding, service robots, machine learning, spoken dialogue systems, cloud robotics, imitation learning, and recommender systems.

He founded the Semantic Machine Intelligence Lab at Keio University in 2020. He has published over 130 research articles and has been awarded more than 20 research grants, totaling over 5 million USD (=550M JPY).