Family name:	Akagi
Forenames:	Masato
Sex:	Male
Date of birth:	12 September 1956
Place of birth:	Okayama, Japan
Nationality:	Japanese
Present address:	School of Information Science Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 1-1 Asahidai, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan　 Phone: +81-761-51-1236 Fax.: +81-761-51-1149 (urgent) 090-468-78779
Email:	akagi@jaist.ac.jp

Education

1975-1979	Nagoya Institute of Technology The degree of B. Eng. in electronic engineering
1979-1981	Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, The degree of M. Eng. in computer science
1981-1984	Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, The degree of Dr. Eng. in computer science; thesis entitled "Speech recognition by polarized linear predictive error coding" Work supervised by Professor Taizo Iijima

　

Research and professional experience

1984-1986	Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Researcher at Musashino Electrical Communication Laboratories, worked under Dr. Kazuhiko Kakehi and Dr. Sadaoki Furui on　 modeling of target prediction mechanisms in contextual effects.
1986-1990	ATR Auditory and Visual Perception Research Laboratories,　　 Senior Researcher, worked with Dr. Yoh'ichi Tohkura on modeling of contrast and assimilation effects in contextual effects.
1990-1992	Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Senior Researcher at NTT Basic Research Laboratories, worked under Dr. Masaaki Honda on modeling of contextual effects.
1992-1999	Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST),　 Associate Professor at School of Information Science, working on speaker individuality, modeling of auditory periphery, and modeling of auditory scene analysis.
present	Professor at School of Information Science, apan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
1988.4-10	MIT, visiting researcher at the Research Laboratories of Electronics, supported by Prof. Victor Zue.
1993.3-6	University of Amsterdam, visiting researcher at the Institute of Phonetic Science, supported by Prof. Louis C. W. Pols.

　

Awards

[1] 1987 IEICE Excellent Paper Awards

Akagi, M. and Furui, S. (1986). “Modeling of vowel target prediction mechanism
in speech perception,” Trans. IEICE, J69-A, 10, 1277-1285.

[2] 1997 Sato Prize, award for outstanding papers, from the Acoustical Society of Japan.

Akagi, M. and Ienaga, T. (1997). "Speaker individuality in fundamental frequency
contours and its control," J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn. (E), 18, 2, 73-80.

Membership of academic societies

• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)
• The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering (IEICE)
• The Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
• The Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)
• European Speech Communication Association (ESCA)