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Aki Kunikoshi received the B.E. degree from Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan, in 2007 and the M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2009 and 2012, respectively. In 2010, she was an intern at Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China. In 2013-2014, she was a postdoctoral fellow of Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. She received the poster award from Acoustic Society of Japan in 2008. She is a member of the IEEE and ISCA. Her research interests include voice/media conversion and statistical analysis.

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Academic Degrees

• Bachelor of Engineering from Department of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan (2007).
• Master of Science from Department of Frontier Informatics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (2009).
• PhD of Engineering from Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (2012).
  PhD thesis : Gesture Design for a Real-time Gesture-to-Speech Conversion System Based on Space Mapping Between a Gesture Space and an Acoustic Space�h (paper version is available on amazon).

Work experience

• An intern of The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) (March 2006 - April 2007)
• An intern of Microsoft Research Asia (May - August 2011)
• A technical support staff of Research Institute of National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities (February - April 2012)
• A postdoc of Delft University of Technology (August 2012 - October 2013)

Aword

• The poster award from Acoustic Society of Japan (2008)

Language

• Japanese: Native
• English: Good
• Chinese: Good (HSK Intermediate C)
• Dutch: Daily conversation

Programming

• MATLAB, C/C++: Experienced
• Perl, PHP, SQL: Good

Favorite

• Piano
• Rubik's cube
  Aki has organized an official cube competition - 2AvG.

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