Shoichi Koyama, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division ,
National Institute of Informatics /
Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies , SOKENDAI
2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan
koyama.shoichiieee.org

Shoichi Koyama received his B.E., M.S, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2007, 2009, and 2014, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan. Prior to joining NII, he was a Researcher at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (2009--2014), and Research Associate (2014--2018) and Lecturer (2018--2023) at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. He was also a Visiting Researcher at Paris Diderot University (Paris 7), Institut Langevin, Paris, France (2016--2018), and a Visiting Associate Professor at Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan (2020--2023). His research interests include audio signal processing/machine learning, acoustic inverse problems, and spatial audio. (Full CV: )

Research topics

Acoustic signal processing, machine learning for audio, microphone and loudspeaker array processing, spatial audio

Professional experience

2009.04 – 2014.03 Nippon Telegraph and Telephon Corp., NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, Researcher
2014.04 – 2018.03 Research Associate at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo
2016.04 – 2018.03 Visiting researcher at Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7) / Institut Langevin (JSPS Overseas Research Fellow)
2018.04 – 2023.03 Lecturer at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo
2020.04 – 2023.03 Visiting Associate Professor at Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University
2023.04 – Associate Professor at Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National Institute of Informatics
2023.04 – Associate Professor at Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI

Senior Member of IEEE, Member of Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Audio Engineering Society (AES), IEICE, Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)

Education

2007.03 Graduated from Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo
2009.03 Graduated from Department of Information Physics and Computing, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo
2014.01 Ph.D. (Information Science and Technology) from the University of Tokyo

Awards

  • The Activity Contribution Award, ASJ, 2022.
  • The Service Award (Operation of Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics), IEICE ESS, 2021.
  • The Research Award, Funai Foundation for Information Technology, 2018.
  • The Telecom System Technology Award, the Telecommunication Advancement Foundation, 2015.
  • The Itakura Prize Innovative Young Researcher Award, ASJ, 2015.
  • The Awaya Prize Young Researcher Award, ASJ, 2011.
  • The Best Young Researcher Paper Award, IEEJ Sensors and Micromachines Society, 2010.
  • The Young Researcher Award, SICE Measurement Division, 2009.