KOMEI SUGIURA

Bio

Komei Sugiura is Professor at Keio University, Japan. He received his B.E. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2002, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Informatics in 2004 and 2007, respectively, all from Kyoto University. From 2006 to 2008, he was Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and from 2006 to 2009, he was also with ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories. From 2008 to 2020, he was with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, before joining Keio University in 2020. His research interests include multimodal language understanding, service robots, machine learning, spoken dialogue systems, cloud robotics, imitation learning, and recommender systems.
He founded the Semantic Machine Intelligence Lab. at Keio University in 2020. He has published over 130 research articles and has been awarded more than 20 research grants, totaling over 5 million USD (=550M JPY).
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Contact

Office address 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
Email
Lab URL https://smilab.org/
Twitter @keio_smilab
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Education

4/2004 - 3/2007 Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
Ph. D. in Informatics (2007)
4/2002 - 3/2004 Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
M. Sc. in Informatics (2004)
4/1998 - 3/2002 Undergraduate School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kyoto University
B. E. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2002)
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Employment

4/2020 - present Keio University, Japan
Associate Professor (4/2020-3/2022)
Professor (4/2022-)
4/2008 - 3/2020 Senior Researcher,
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
4/2012 - 3/2018 Adjunct Lecturer, Doshisha University, Japan
6/2005 - 9/2005 Intern, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA
4/2004 - 3/2009 ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories, Japan
Intern Researcher (4/2004-3/2008)
Researcher (4/2008-3/2009)
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Honors and Awards

6/2023 K. Kaneda, R. Korekata, Y. Wada, S. Nagashima, M. Kambara, Y. Iioka, H. Matsuo, Y. Imai, T. Nishimura, K. Sugiura, First Place in CVPR 2023 Embodied AI Workshop DialFRED Challenge
8/2022 Honorable Mention Award, REVERIE challenge 2022
6/2022 Best performing solution for container capacity estimation and capacity and dimensions estimation and filling mass estimation, The CORSMAL challenge 2022
11/2018 JSAI2018 Best Paper Award
10/2018 METI Minister's Award (1st Place) in WRS2018 Partner Robot Challenge / Virtual Space
10/2018 Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Award in WRS 2018
10/2018 IEEE/RSJ IROS 2018 RoboCup Best Paper Award
6/2018 3rd Place in RoboCup 2018 RoboCup@Home League Domestic Standard Platform
5/2018 2nd Place in WRS Partner Robot Challenge (Virtual Space) Pre-event 2018
7/2017 2nd Place in RoboCup 2017 RoboCup@Home League Domestic Standard Platform
7/2017 Open Source Software Award, RoboCup 2017 @Home League
7/2016 Innovation Award, RoboCup 2016 @Home League
9/2015 1st Place, Toyota HSR Hackathon 2015
7/2014 Best Presentation, NICT Joint Research Workshop
6/2012 2nd Place in RoboCup 2012 @Home League
5/2012 1st Place in RoboCup 2012 Japan Open @Home League
9/2011 IROS 2011 RoboCup Best Paper Award
5/2011 The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Award in RoboCup 2011 Japan Open
5/2011 1st Place in RoboCup 2011 Japan Open @Home League
5/2011 RoboCup Research Award, The RoboCup Japanese National Committee
6/2010 1st Place in RoboCup 2010 @Home League
5/2010 The Robotics Society of Japan Award in RoboCup 2010 Japan Open
5/2010 1st Place in RoboCup 2010 Japan Open @Home League
7/2009 2nd Place in RoboCup 2009 @Home League
5/2009 The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Award in RoboCup 2009 Japan Open
5/2009 1st Place in RoboCup 2009 Japan Open @Home League
8/2008 Young Researcher Award of Electronics, Information and Systems Society, The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
7/2008 1st Place in RoboCup 2008 @Home League
5/2008 1st Place in RoboCup 2008 Japan Open @Home League
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Social Activities

Associate Editor, RO-MAN [2024]
Director, Robot Learning Foundation [2023, 2024, 2025]
Area Chair, CoRL [2022, 2023, 2024]
Program Committee, AAAI 2021 [2021]
Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR) 2020 [2020]
Associate Editor, IEEE/RSJ IROS [2019, 2021]
Program Co-Chair, CoRL 2019 [2019]
Chair, RoboCup@Home Standard Platform League Selection Committee [2016, 2017]
Co-Chair, The RoboCup 2017 Nagoya Exective Working Committee [2016, 2017]
Video Co-Chair, HRI 2016 (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction) [2016]
Technical Program Committee, RO-MAN [2015]
TPC Member, UIC [2015]
Trustee, RoboCup Federation [2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021]
Associate Editor, Advanced Robotics [2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021]
Co-Chair, RoboCup Symposium [2014]
Program Committee, ICAR [2013]
Program Chair, Workshop on Field Speech and Mobile Data [2013]
Program Committee, Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan [2012, 2013, 2014, 2015]
Program Committeee, SICE SI Division Conference [2011, 2012]
Web Chair, HRI 2013 (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction) [2013]
TPC Member, ICME (IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo) [2012]
Program Committee, RoboCup Symposium [2012, 2013, 2015, 2016]
Executive Committee, RoboCup@Home League [2012, 2013]
Technical Committee, RoboCup@Home League [2009, 2010, 2011]
Program Committee, Multimodal Audio-based Multimedia Content Analysis Workshop [2011]
Organizing Committee, RoboCup@Home Japan Open [2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017]
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