Researcher

Shinji Watanabe

RESEARCH SCIENTIST

ASSOCIATE RESEARCH PROFESSOR

Primary Appointment:  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

Research Interests

  • Speech Recognition
  • Speech Enhancement
  • Deep Learning
  • Spoken Language Processing

Shinji Watanabe received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Theoretical Physics from the Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Waseda University as well.

His research is focused on the area of spoken language processing which includes speech enhancement, source separation, microphone array, speaker adaptation, speaker clustering, acoustic and language modeling for speech recognition, voice conversion, spoken language understanding, and spoken dialog systems.

Primary Appointment: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Human Language Technology Center of Excellence