Staff
Kazuhiro Otsuka
Ph. D., Associate Professor
He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Yokohama National University in 1993 and 1995, respectively. He joined the NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation in 1995. He received his Ph.D. in information science from Nagoya University in 2007. He was a distinguished invited researcher at Idiap Research Institute in 2010. From 2001 to 2020, he worked as a (senior) research scientist (supervisor) in the NTT Communication Science Laboratories. In 2020, he moved to Yokohama National University, as an associate professor. His research interests include multimodal data analysis, nonverbal communication, and social telepresence. He is a member of the IEEE, the IEICE and the IPSJ.
Students
M2
Koya Ito
Birthplace: Chiba
Favorite things: anime, cameras, music
I would like to do my best so that I can conduct research that can be used for communication between people.
M2
Shota Kikuchi
Birthplace: Kanagawa
Favorite things: band,movie,manga
I would like to research how we associate deep learning with communication.
M2
Ayane Tashiro
I’m from Mie prefecture. I like traveling very much. One of the my hobbies is classical ballet . I have done that for about 18 years. I do my best to get a lot of knowledge and good results as a member of this laboratory.
M1
Ryo Suzuki
Birthplace: Kanagawa
Favorite things: gardening,running
I aspire to gain a fundamental understanding of machine learning and do my best to achieve excellent research results.
M1
Momoka Tajima
Birthplace: Yokohama
Favorite things: Watching musicals, oboe
I will do my best to conduct research that will benefit the world by gaining knowledge from various perspectives.
M1
Daiki Mochizuki
Birthplace: Shizuoka
Favorite things: traveling,tennis
I will actively pursue research so that I can produce results that will be useful to many people.
B4
Ryuhei Tanahara
Birthplace:Okinawa
Hobbies:movies,games
I am interested in various things and want to be of some help to society.
B4
Issa Tamura
Birthplace:Kanagawa
Hobbies:fashion,movies
I want to research with originality and be particular about it from many perspectives.
B4
Takumi Nishihira
Birthplace:Born in Ehime,raised in Tokyo
Hobbies:Gaming,reading
I would like to learn and research non-verbal information processing using machine learning.
B4
Yuya Nishimura
Birthplace:Kanagawa
Hobbies:walking,gaming
I want to acquire knowledge and the ability to make trial-and-error attempts to achieve results.I also want to acquire experience in obtaining results.
Graduates
2021
- Kazuki Miyoshi (Undergraduate)
- Mituski Maruyama(Undergraduate)
2022
- Shumpei Otsuchi (Master)
- Kazuki Takeda(Master)
- Takashi Mori(Master)
2022
- Koshiro Umezaki (Undergraduate)
- Yusei Kido(Undergraduate)
2023
- Mai Imamura(Master)
- Kaito Iizuka(Master)
2023
- Shunta Sugiyama(Undergraduate)
- Ryo Nishizono(Undergraduate)
- Takeshi Yamanaka(Undergraduate)