Short Bio.

Akiko Eriguchi (江里口瑛子) is a Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft Research. Before joining Microsoft, she was a Project Academic Support Specialist (as a part-time researcher) at Tsuruoka Laboratory, the University of Tokyo. She received Ph.D. (Engineering) from the University of Tokyo in 2018, and M.S. and B.S. from Ochanomizu University in 2013 and 2015, respectively. She was a Research Fellow (DC1) of JSPS in 2015-2018.

E-mail: akikoe [.at.] microsoft.com

Research Interests

Natural Language Processing

• - Machine Translation
• - Multi-lingual NLP application (classification/QA)

Machine Learning

• - Neural Networks
• - Topic model
• - Graph-based semi-supervised learning

Employment / Academic Experience

• Project Academic Support Specialist (as a part-time researcher) at Tsuruoka Laboratory, the University of Tokyo, Japan. May 2018–December 2018.



• Research Internship, Translate team, Google Japan, Japan. February 2018–April 2018. Host: Melvin Johnson and Hideto Kazawa.



• Research Fellow of JSPS (DC1), Japan. April, 2015–March, 2018
• Research Internship, PhD 2017, Translate team, Google Mountain View, the USA. August 2017–November 2017. Host: Melvin Johnson and Wolfgang Macherey.




• Research Intern; Visiting graduate student at Kyunghyun Cho, New York University, the USA. August, 2016–November, 2016.


• Teaching assistant in Software II (C programming course). November, 2015–December, 2015.


• Teaching assistant in Linear Algebra, C, Python programming course (intermittently). April, 2013–February, 2015.


• Visiting graduate student at DFKI and Saaland University, Germany. August, 2013–September, 2013.


• Part-time engineer at the Preferred Infrastructure Inc., Japan. February, 2014–November, 2014.




Professional Service

Journal reviewing

• ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), 2017.


• IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2019-2020.


• Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 2019.
• Journal of Natural Language Processing, 2018-2019.
• Journal of IEEE Access, 2019-2020.



Program Committee Member / Reviewer

• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020.
• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020.
• Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2018-2020.


• Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL), 2018-2019.



• International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), 2017.


• Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018 (secondary reviewer), 2020.


• Conference on Empirical methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2016 (secondary reviewer), 2020.


• Conference on Empirical methods in Natural Language Processing and International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 2019.



• Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processingal (AACL-IJCNLP), 2020.



• The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2019-2020.


• The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), 2020.


• Natural Language Processing (NLP; Domestic Conference in Japan), 2019-2020.






Proofreading Experience

• Proofreading assistant for a book on probabilistic topic models: 「自然言語処理シリーズ トピックモデルによる統計的潜在意味解析」, 2014.





Awards, Honors and Grants

• The 6th AAMT Nagao Student award for PhD thesis from Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT). June, 2019.


• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI Grant) from JSPS. April, 2015–March, 2018.


• The young researcher award of the 22nd annual meeting of the association for natural language processing. March, 2016.


• Full exemption from JASSO scholarship refund for excellent students. April, 2013–March, 2015.


• Master 21 scholarship from Yoshida Scholarship Foundation. April, 2013–March, 2015.


• Short-term Grants from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). August, 2013–September, 2013.


• Travel Grants from ACL 2013 Student Research Workshop. August, 2013.


• Ochanomizu University Oinkai Research Award, Ochanomizu University. May, 2013.


• Ochanomizu University Best Achievement Award (top 2%), Ochanomizu University. December, 2012.


• Grants for General Highest Achievers (top 4%), Ochanomizu University. May, 2011.




Hobby

• Japanese tea ceremony
  - One of my favorite Zen words is 百花春至為誰開 (When spring comes, for whom do hundreds of flowers and blossoms bloom?).



• Tennis
• Hiking
• Igo (beginner)