cv | Shota Horiguchi

2022.4 - 2023.3
Ph.D., Computer Science

University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Supervisor: Prof. Takeshi Yamada
- Thesis title: Study on overlap-aware speaker diarization and its applications
  - Thesis
  - Slides
2015.4 - 2017.3
M.E., Information Science and Technology

The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Supervisor: Prof. Kiyoharu Aizawa
- Thesis title: Personalized Object Recognition
2011.4 - 2015.3
B.E., Information and Communication Engineering

The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Supervisor: Prof. Kiyoharu Aizawa

2024
2nd prize in The 8th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge (CHiME-8) Task 1
- As the NTT team
- In charge of preparation of simulated mixtures and pretraining of EEND-VC
2023
Itakura Prize Innovative Young Researcher Award, The Acoustical Society of Japan
- For the research on overlap-aware speaker diarization for unkonwn numbers of speakers
2021
2nd prize in The Third DIHARD Speech Diarization Challenge (DIHARD III)
- As the Hitachi-JHU team
- Technical report
- In charge of EEND-EDA, EEND as post-processing, and system ensemble
2018
2nd prize in The 5th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge (CHiME-5)
- As the Hitachi-JHU team
- Technical report
- In charge of speech separation and server cooling 🌬️
2017
Outstanding Research Presentation Award, The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
- For the presentation in PRMU, Feb, 2017

2023.8
Speaker Diarization: A Key to Solving Cocktail Party Problem
- Speech-based Communication for Robots and Systems (IEEE RO-MAN 2023 Workshop)
2019.7
Face-Voice Matching Using Cross-Modal Embeddings (In Japanese)
- The 22nd Meeting on Image Recogntion and Understanding (MIRU)

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