CV
General information
| Name | Taishi Nakashima |
| Label | Assistant Professor / Researcher |
| taishi@ieee.org | |
| Url | https://taishi.org |
| Summary | Assistant Professor at the Ono Laboratory, School of Systems Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University. I work on blind source separation, online speech enhancement, and microphone array signal processing. |
Work
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2024.04 - Present Hino, Tokyo, Japan
Assistant Professor
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Department of Computer Science, School of Systems Design
- Teach System Programming Experiments (Oct.–Nov. 2025, Dec. 2024–Mar. 2025)
- Teach Programming Fundamentals II (Apr.–Aug. 2025 and Apr.–Aug. 2024)
- Lead research on blind source separation and real-time acoustic signal processing
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2021.04 - 2024.03 Tokyo, Japan
Research Fellow (DC1)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Doctoral fellow hosted by the Ono Laboratory
- Developed fast online blind source separation adapting to source and microphone movements
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2020.08 - 2020.10 Tokyo, Japan
Research Intern
LINE Corporation
Audio and speech technology internship
- Explored speech and audio processing for consumer communication services
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2019.05 - 2024.03 Hino, Tokyo, Japan
Research Assistant
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Graduate School of Systems Design
- Supported experiments, dataset design, and mentoring in the Ono Laboratory
Education
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2021.04 - 2024.03 Tokyo, Japan
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Graduate School of Systems Design, Department of Computer Science
- Thesis: Fast Online Blind Source Separation Adapting to Source and Microphone Movements
- Supervisor: Prof. Nobutaka Ono
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2019.04 - 2021.03 Tokyo, Japan
M.S. in Computer Science
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Graduate School of Systems Design, Department of Computer Science
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2017.04 - 2019.03 Osaka, Japan
B.S. in Engineering
Osaka University
Division of Intelligent Systems Science, School of Engineering Science
Projects
- 2025.04 - Present
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
Role: Co-investigator (PI: Prof. Nobutaka Ono) · Total budget ¥39,650,000 (Direct ¥30,500,000 + Indirect ¥9,150,000)
- 2024.12 - 2026.03
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Role: Principal Investigator · Total budget ¥2,860,000 (Direct ¥2,200,000 + Indirect ¥660,000)
- 2021.04 - 2024.03
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellowship (DC1)
Role: JSPS DC1 Research Fellow · Total budget ¥3,120,000 (Direct ¥2,400,000 + Indirect ¥720,000)
Academic activities
- 2024.01 - Present
Academic Service
Reviewer for journals and international conferences in audio and signal processing
- Journals: IEICE Trans., IEICE Trans. Letters, IEICE Trans. A, Acoustical Science and Technology, APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing
- Conferences: IEEE ICASSP 2024; EUSIPCO 2025; APSIPA ASC 2025; AAAI 2026 Workshop on Audio-Centric AI
Stipends
- 2020.04
Audio-Technica Scholarship Foundation
Audio-Technica Scholarship Foundation
Graduate scholarship recipient
- 2018.04
- 2017.04
Awards
- 2023.06
Top 3% Paper Recognition (ICASSP 2023)
IEEE ICASSP 2023
Fast online source steering algorithm for tracking single moving source using online independent vector analysis.
- 2021.06
IEEE SPS Japan Student Conference Paper Award
IEEE Signal Processing Society Japan Chapter
Joint dereverberation and separation with iterative source steering (ICASSP 2021).
- 2024.03
Student Presentation Award (Acoustical Society of Japan Spring Meeting 2024)
Acoustical Society of Japan
Online auxiliary-function IVA with dynamic forgetting-factor control for moving source separation (co-author).
- 2022.03
Student Presentation Award (Acoustical Society of Japan Spring Meeting 2022)
Acoustical Society of Japan
Iterative source steering-based online auxiliary-function IVA for blind source separation.
Skills
| Languages | |
| Japanese (native) | |
| English (business level) | |
| Korean (daily conversation) |
| Programming | |
| C/C++ | |
| Go | |
| MATLAB | |
| Python | |
| Ruby |
| Tools | |
| Adobe CC (Illustrator, Photoshop) | |
| git / GitHub | |
| TeX / LaTeX | |
| Vim / Neovim |
| Research Topics | |
| Blind source separation | |
| Online / real-time source separation | |
| Acoustic signal processing | |
| Microphone array processing |