CURRICULUM VITAE

Yukiko I. Nakano

 

 

Professor
Seikei University
Dept. of Computer and Information Science
Faculty of Science and Technology

e-mail: y.nakano {at} st.seikei.ac.jp

http://www.ci.seikei.ac.jp/nakano/index_e.htmll

 

1. Education

- The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology, January 2005

  Thesis: Designing Multimodal Conversational Interfaces Based on Empirical Studies of Human Communicative Behaviors

Abstract: With the goal of allowing more natural human-computer interaction, this thesis established models of conversations by analyzing human verbal and nonverbal communicative behaviors, and based on the empirical models, developed Multimodal Conversational Interfaces (MCIs) as well as related technologies, such as conversation management, multimodal generation, and conversational agent.

- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA

M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences, August, 2002

Thesis: Non-verbal Signals for Grounding in Embodied Conversational Agent

- The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

M.A. in Educational Psychology, March, 1990

- Tokyo Women’s Christian University, Tokyo, Japan

B.A. in Psychology, March 1988

 

2. Research Experience

- Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan (2013-)
Professor at Dept. of Computer and Information Science
- Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan (2008-2013)
Associate Professor at Dept. of Computer and Information Science
- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan (2005-2008)
Associate Professor at Department of Computer and Information Sciences
- Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX-JST), Tokyo, Japan (2002-2005)

Researcher (Sub-leader) in the Interactive Knowledge Process Group led by Professor Nishida at Kyoto University. Designing and developing a web-based presentation agent (SPOC) and an immersive conversational environment (IPOC) where users can interact with conversational agents with higher reality and naturalness.

- MIT Media Laboratory, MA, USA (2000-2002)

Research assistant in Gesture and Narrative Language Group led by Professor Justine Cassell. Studied human face-to-face communication in psychology and communication science, and developed conversational agents based on a model of human communication behaviors. Engaged in ECA projects, REA and MACK.

 

3. Work Experience

NTT Research Laboratories (1990-2000): Researcher in a natural language processing group. Studied human conversations, and developed multimodal dialogue systems.

 

4. Teaching Experience

- Professor, Seikei University (2013-)
- Associate Professor, Seikei University (2008-2013)
- Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (2005-2008)
- Mentor of master students at the University of Tokyo (2003, 2004)

- Teaching Assistant at the MIT Media Laboratory: Theory and Practice of Discourse and Dialogue for Interactive Systems (Fall 2001). Instructor: Justine Cassell. Gave a lecture about Grounding. Prepared and reviewed assignments.

- Mentor of freshman researcher at NTT research labs (1995, 1999)

 

5. Awards

- 2003  Best Paper Award, Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Conference (ACL03)

 

6. Professional Activities

Member:

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)