Naoto Iwahashi

Ongoing project

• Creative Symbol Manipulation Model (2020-)
  Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Tokyo Tech, Kyoto Univ, Okayama Prefectural Univ)
• Symbol Emergence by Robots Through User-Driven Dialogue (2018-)
  Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Okayama Prefectural Univ)
• Theory of Cooperation (2020-)
  Tamagawa Univ, Tokyo Institute of Tech Shizuoka Prefectural Univ, Nagoya Institute of Tech, Ritsumeikan Univ, Okayama Prefectural Univ
• Human-Robot Physical Interaction (2019-)
  Tamagawa Univ, Okayama Prefectural Univ
• Mental Health and Communication Education (2021-)
  Elementary School, High School, Company, Notre Dame Seishin Univ, Okayama Prefectural Univ
• Collective Large Language Models (2023-)
  Okayama Prefectural Univ
• Embodied Large Language Models (2024-)
  Shizuoka Prefectural Univ, Okayama Prefectural Univ

Contribution

• Advanced Robotics Best Survey Paper Award (2021.9.9)
  T. Taniguchi, D. Mochihashi, T. Nagai, S. Uchida, N. Inoue, I. Kobayashi, T. Nakamura, Y. Hagaiwara, N. Iwahashi, T. Inamura. “Survery on frontiers of language and robotics”, Advanced Robotics, Vol. 33, Issue 15-16, 2019.
• Best Paper Award: Japan Society of Artificial Intelligence (2016)
  Nakamura, Nagai, Funakoshi, Taniguchi, Iwahashi, Kaneko. “Mutual Learning of an Object Concept and Language Model Based on MLDA and NPYLM”, Transaction of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.30, No.3, pp.498-509, 2015.
• Advanced Robotics Best Paper Award (2013)
  T. Araki, T. Nakamura, T. Nagai, K. Funakoshi, M. Nakano and N. Iwahashi.  “Online Object Categorization Using Multimodal Information Autonomously Acquired by a Mobile Robot” Advanced Robotics, vol.26, pp.1995-2020, 2012.
• Best Paper Award: Japan Society of Artificial Intelligence (2011)
  Taguchi, Iwahashi, Fuakoshi, Nakano, Nose, Nitta. “Learning Lexicons from Spoken Utterances Based on Statistical Model Selection”, Transaction of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.25, No.4, pp.549-559, 2010.
• RoboCup World Competition 2010 @Home Leage Champion
  
• RoboCup World Competition 2008 @Home Leage Champion
  
• Newspaper Top Page (2007)
  "Research on robots that learn language like infants" (Color Article)
• Transfer of Speech Synthesis Technology to Bell Laboratories (1992)
  First Transfer in Collaboration between Bell Laboratories and ATR
• Audio Coding Basic Patent (1990)
  Sony Patent Award Special Grade（2010）
  Sony Patent Award First Grade（1997）

　

Bio

• Okayama Pref Univ Professor
   Tamagawa Univ Brain Science Labs Visiting Researcher
  
• National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Senior Researcher
• ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Labs Senior Researcher
   Kobe Univ Visiting Professor
   ATR Media Information Science Research Labs Visiting Researcher
• Sony Computer Science Labs Inc
   Tokyo Institute of Technology Lecturer
   Toyohashi Univ of Technoglogy Lecturer
   Univ of Electro-Communications Lecturer
• Tokyo Tech. Dr. Eng.
• Sony Corp.
   Sony Japan-US-Europe Joint Corporate Project, Leader
   ATR Intretating Telophony Research Labs, Researcher
• Keio Univ
• Shonan High School