Members

Staff

Professor Tatsuya Kawahara
Associate Professor(s) Keisuke Imoto
Divesh Lala
Assistant Professor(s) Koji Inoue
Taiga Mori
Researchers Shinsuke Sakai
Secretary Mayumi Abe

Students

Ph.D Students Zimo Zhang
Jianan Chen
Zi Haur Pang
Kohei Matsuura (NTT)
Wangjin Zhou
Ryuichi Sumida
Hayato Futami (Sony)
Yichi Wang
Jaeyoung Lee (NTT)
Master Students Kazushi Kato
Akane Fukushige
Ryo Magoshi
Yizhou Zhang
Morris Kim
Sota Ishiyama
Soma Iwata
Naoya Tomida
Tokiru Amar Fujioka
Seima Matsumura
Visiting Students Zilong Huang (Hong Kong Poly U)
Anindita Mandal (IIT Kharagpur)
Research Students Sarthak Giri
Undergraduate Students Taichi Kitano
Shotaro Hayashi
Hiroto Torimaru

Alumni (including those* who were supervised by Prof. Okuno and those# who were supervised by Prof. Yoshii)


Akinobu Lee (Ph.D in 2000; Professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology)
Kazunori Komatani (Ph.D in 2002; Professor at Osaka University)
Masafumi Nishida (Post Doc in 2002-2003; Professor at Shizuoka University)
Taro Watanabe (Ph.D in 2004; Professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Hiroaki Nanjo (Ph.D in 2004; Professor at Shiga University)
Yuya Akita (Ph.D in 2005; Professor at Kyoto University)
Mihoko Teshigawara (Post Doc in 2004-2005; Professor at Komazawa University)
Ian R. Lane (Ph.D in 2006; Professor at UC Santa Cruz, USA)
Takahiro Shinozaki (Post Doc in 2006-2007; Professor at Institute of Science Tokyo)
*Tetsuro Kitahara (Ph.D in 2007; Professor at Nihon University)
*Shun Shiramatsu (Ph.D in 2008; Professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology)
Teruhisa Misu (Ph.D in 2008; Honda RI, USA)
*Shunichi Yamamoto (Ph.D in 2008; PALTAC)
*Kazuyoshi Yoshii (Ph.D in 2008; Professor at Kyoto University)
*Hyundon Kim (Ph.D in 2008; LG, Korea)
*Shun Nishide (Ph.D in 2009; Associate Professor at Kyoto Tachibana University)
David Cournapeau (Ph.D in 2009; Amazon Japan)
Hongcui Wang (Ph.D in 2009; Hangzhou University of Water Resources and Electronic Power, China)
*Katsutoshi Itoyama (Ph.D in 2011; Honda RI)
*Ryu Takeda (Ph.D in 2011; Associate Professor at Osaka University)
Graham Neubig (Ph.D in 2012; Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Randy Gomez (Post Doc in 2008-2012; Honda RI)
Mijit Ablimit (Ph.D in 2013; Professor at Xinjiang University, China)
*Takeshi Mizumoto (Ph.D in 2013; Hylable)
*Eui-Hyun Kim (Ph.D in 2013; Toshiba)
*Takuma Otsuka (Ph.D in 2014; NTT)
*Angelica Lim (Ph.D in 2014; Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser Univ., Canada)
Koichiro Yoshino (Ph.D in 2014; Professor at Osaka University)
Sheng Li (Ph.D in 2016; Assistant Professor at Institute of Science Tokyo)
Maryam Mirzaei (Ph.D in 2017; RIKEN)
Pierrick Milhorat (Post Doc in 2015-2017; IKEA)
#Yoshiaki Bando (Ph.D in 2018; AIST)
Koji Inoue (Ph.D in 2018; Assistant Professor at Kyoto University)
Richeng Duan (Ph.D in 2018; American Express, Singapore)
Katsuya Takanashi (Researcher in 2005-2020; Professor at University of Shiga Prefecture)
Shizuka Nakamura (Researcher in 2015-2020;)
Zhao Tianyu (Ph.D in 2020; Sakana AI)
#Mathieu Fontaine (Post Doc in 2019-2021; Associate Professor at Telecom Paris)
#Kohei Sekiguchi (Ph.D in 2021; DENSO)
#Ryo Nishikimi (Ph.D in 2021; NTT)
Hirofumi Inaguma (Ph.D in 2021; Meta AI Research)
#Wu Yiming (Ph.D in 2021; AlphaTheta)
Sei Ueno (Ph.D in 2022; Assistant Professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology)
Soky Kak (Ph.D in 2023; Ministry of Education in Cambodia)
Kenta Yamamoto (Ph.D in 2023; Assistant Professor at Osaka University)
Masato Mimura
(2006-2023 Researcher; NTT)
#Eita Nakamura
(2015-2024 Researcher & Assistant Professor; Associate Professor at Kyushu University)
Hao Shi (Ph.D in 2024; Shanda Tokyo AI Lab)
Yahui Fu (Ph.D in 2024; Researcher at Nagoya University)
Divesh Lala
(2015-2025 Researcher; Associate Professor)
Yuan Gao (Ph.D in 2025; SB Intuitions)
Mikey Elmers (Post Doc in 2023-2025; Toyota Woven City)