Keisuke Sakaguchi
Associate Professor
Sendai, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolKeisuke Sakaguchi is a professor and NLP researcher with 14 years of experience bridging machine learning, psycholinguistics, and applied language technologies. He focuses on robust NLP for noisy text, commonsense knowledge, visual diagram understanding, language acquisition applications, and reliable evaluation—work that earned outstanding paper awards at ACL 2017 and AAAI 2020 and coverage in Forbes and MIT Technology Review. Trained at Johns Hopkins (PhD) with internships across industry labs (AI2, Microsoft Research Asia, IBM, ETS), he combines rigorous cognitive perspectives with practical system-building toward embodied AI that mirrors human efficiency. Based in Sendai, he currently holds faculty roles at Tohoku University, advises startups like Kotoba, and collaborates with RIKEN, reflecting a blend of academic leadership and industry impact. An underappreciated thread in his portfolio is a sustained interest in decoding algorithms and data-efficient collection methods that improve real-world robustness beyond benchmark gains.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Computational Linguistics, Master of Engineering (MEng), Computational Linguistics at Nara Institute of Science and TechnologyMaster of Arts (MA), Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, Master of Arts (MA), Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics at University of EssexJohns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy at Waseda University
Japanese, English, Chinese
Github Skills (47)
tuple10
spelling10
error-correction10
romaji10
kanji10
evaluation9
linguistics9
corpus9
mturk9
mechanical-turk9
nlp8
leaderboard8
mosaic8
translation8
recurrent8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
keisks/disc-sim-esl
May 2013 - Aug 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
keisks/scala-tutorial
May 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:49 commits in 1 year
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