NISHIKAWA Hitoshi is a researcher in the area of natural language processing as well as a business developer to implement new technologies in business. Before assuming the current positions, he was an assistant professor at Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology. His interests lie in data management and natural language processing, especially natural language generation and automatic summarization. Before joining Tokyo Institute of Technology, he was affiliated with Media Intelligence Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, as a research scientist.
He received his PhD degree in computer science from Nara Institute of Science and Technology in 2013 and his MBA degree with Beta Gamma Sigma from IE Business School (IE University) in 2017.
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JSAI Annual Conference Award, The 32nd Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Jun. 2018
Best Paper Award, Journal of Natural Language Processing, The Association for Natural Language Processing, Mar. 2017.
Specially Selected Paper, Journal of Information Processing, Information Processing Society of Japan, Feb. 2016.
Excellent Interactive Award, The 7th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management, The Database Society of Japan, Mar. 2015.
Special Interest Group Recommended Doctoral Dissertation, Information Processing Society of Japan, Jul. 2014.
Excellent Paper Award, The 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, The Association for Natural Language Processing, Mar. 2014.
Best Paper Award (First Place), Journal of Natural Language Processing, The Association for Natural Language Processing, Mar. 2014.
Best Paper Award, Journal of Natural Language Processing, The Association for Natural Language Processing, Mar. 2013.
Excellent Student Scholarship, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Jul. 2012.
科研費若手研究(B) (代表), Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2020.
基盤研究(B) (分担), Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2019.
Microsoft Research CORE12 Project, Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2018.
In Japanese, my name is written as 西川 仁 (にしかわ ひとし). It is a quite simple name, huh?