Institute of Science Tokyo
Professor
Naoaki Okazaki
Naoaki Okazaki, currently a professor at the School of Computing, Institute of Science Tokyo, earned his PhD in 2007 from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. His early post-doctoral career included a research position at the same institution. Subsequently, he became an associate professor at the Graduate School of Information Sciences at Tohoku University. He specializes in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. His career is marked by numerous awards, such as the Young Scientists' Prize, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. In addition, he was honored with the 2016 Microsoft Research Award on Information Processing.