Profile

I am a researcher and engineer in the fields of Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Autonomous Driving.

Career

Apr. 2025 - (present)
Senior Researcher, Turing Inc.
Apr. 2023 - (present)
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Oct. 2020 - Mar. 2025
Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Sep. 2019 - Mar. 2020
Visiting Researcher, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) Supervisor: Prof. Yoav Goldberg
Apr. 2018 - June 2019, May. 2020 - Sep. 2020
Research Assistant, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Apr. 2018 - Sep. 2020
Doctor of Engineering, Nara Institute of Science and Technology Computational Linguistics Lab. Supervisor: Prof. Yuji Matsumoto / Prof. Taro Watanabe
Mar. 2017 - (present)
Founder and CEO, TeraBytes Inc.
Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2018
Master of Engineering, Nara Institute of Science and Technology Computational Linguistics Lab. Supervisor: Prof. Yuji Matsumoto
Sep. 2015 - Feb. 2016
Professional Boxer, Watanabe Boxing Gym Division: Lightweight Record: Wins: 1 / Total Fights: 1
Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2016
Application Engineer, i3DESIGN Co., Ltd.
Oct. 2011 - Mar. 2014
Engineering Intern, i3DESIGN Co., Ltd.
Apr. 2010 - Mar. 2014
Bachelor of Business, Keio University
Apr. 2007 - Mar. 2010
Hiroshima Municipal Motomachi Senior High School

Research

Natural Language Processing
  • Syntactic Parsing: Dependency Parsing, Coordinate Structure Analysis
  • Information Extraction: Named Entity Recognition, Relation Extraction, Entity Linking

Publications

See Publications or Google Scholar.

Grants/Scholarship

  • Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2025: 日本学術振興会 科研費若手研究「科学技術論文における長く複雑な文の構文解析」（研究代表者） [link]
  • Sep. 2019: 日本学術振興会 特別研究員（DC2）採用内定 ※内定辞退
  • Aug. 2019: 日本学術振興会 若手研究者海外挑戦プログラム採用 [報告書]
  • June 2019: トビタテ！留学JAPAN 日本代表プログラム（留学奨学金）第11期採用
  • June 2018: 日本学生支援機構奨学金 特に優れた業績による返還免除（全額免除）
  • June 2018: 奈良先端科学技術大学院大学優秀学生奨学制度奨学対象者として表彰（授業料免除）

Awards

  • Mar. 2024: 言語処理学会 第30回年次大会 - 委員特別賞
  • Aug. 2023: NLP若手の会 第18回シンポジウム - デモ賞

Activities

  • Committee (2024 -): 情報処理学会 自然言語処理研究会 運営委員.
  • Reviewer: ACL conferences, ARR, TALLIP, 言語処理学会論文誌.
  • Lecture (Dec. 2024): Syntactic and Semantic Parsing. NAIST 4102: NLP.
  • Lecture (Dec. 2023): Syntactic and Semantic Parsing. NAIST 4102: NLP.
  • Talk (July 2023): How to train large language models on the example of GPT3 (LLaMA). GPT4 Journal Club Series (RIKEN AIP mini workshop).
  • Talk (Apr. 2023): ChatGPTの基礎. (private).
  • Committee (2021 - 2023): 最先端NLP勉強会 実行委員 (2023年 実行委員長).
  • Talk (Feb. 2021): Neural Network Approaches to Coordination Disambiguation. AIP Open Seminar #11.

Hobbies

  • Travel (40+ countries)
  • Sports (Boxing, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Swimming)
  • Languages (Japanese: native, English: upper-intermediate (TOEIC 910), Korean: elementary (TOPIK 3급))

Contact

teranishi.hiroki[at]gmail.com