Toru Taniguchi

Toru Taniguchi has a diverse and extensive work experience. Starting in 2003, they worked as a Part-time Lecturer at Waseda University. Toru continued their role as a Part-time Lecturer until 2009 while also serving as a Research Associate at Waseda University from 2004 to 2008. In 2009, they briefly worked as a Part-time Lecturer at Kanagawa University.

In 2010, Taniguchi became a Researcher at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) / University of Karlsruhe (TH). Toru held this position until the end of the year. The following year, they joined Toshiba Corporation as a Research Scientist and worked there until 2017.

From 2017 to 2019, Taniguchi worked at Yahoo! JAPAN as an R&D Engineer. In this role, they focused on the development of far-field DNN speech recognition technology for IoT devices and collaborated on research with JHU on End-to-End DNN speech recognition technology.

Since 2019, Taniguchi has been with Preferred Networks, Inc. Toru started as an Engineer and was responsible for developing DNN based far-field and real-time speech recognition software for the home robot product Kachaka, which was launched in May 2023. In March 2023, they became the Technical Lead of the speech team.

Overall, Taniguchi's work experience showcases their expertise in speech recognition technology and their ability to work in research and engineering roles.

Toru Taniguchi received a Bachelor of Information and Computer Science degree from Waseda University in 2001. Toru then pursued a Master of Information and Computer Science degree from the same university, specializing in spoken language processing and pattern recognition from 2001 to 2003. Taniguchi furthered their education by earning a Ph.D in Computer Science from Waseda University between 2003 and 2006.