Corporate Information

About Our Company

Company NameHarmonized Interactions CO., LTD.
AddressD'Grafort Sky Residence II #507,
4-5 Arasaki-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya 467-0846, Japan
FoundedJuly 25, 2018
Capital600,000 JPY
BusinessConsulting and system development for speech recognition, spoken dialogue, human-machine interaction, and LLM-related technologies

Members

Our Team

Norihide Kitaoka
北岡 教英
CEO / Representative Director
Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology

After graduating from Kyoto University and working at DENSO Corporation, he joined Toyohashi University of Technology. He specializes in speech information processing, natural language processing, and multimodal dialogue systems, and is known for his research on elderly speech recognition and real-environment speech processing. 179 peer-reviewed papers and 581 presentations. Vice President of the IEICE Information and Systems Society, and Chair of the APSIPA Japan Chapter. Ph.D. in Engineering.

Akinobu Lee
李 晃伸
Director
Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Nagoya Institute of Technology

Ph.D. in Informatics from Kyoto University. Previously at Nara Institute of Science and Technology. Developer of "Julius," a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition engine maintained for over 30 years. Also the creator of "MMDAgent," a speech interaction toolkit, and "MMDAgent-EX," an avatar-based voice interaction toolkit. Specializes in speech recognition, spoken dialogue systems, and avatar communication.

Hiromitsu Nishizaki
西﨑 博光
Director
Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Yamanashi / Director, Center for International Affairs

Ph.D. in Engineering from Toyohashi University of Technology. Specializes in spoken language processing, deep learning, emotion recognition, and dialogue robots, with additional research in smart agriculture applications. 179 papers, 10 books, and 6 patents. IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Excellent Paper Award (2020), SI2021 Outstanding Presentation Award, among others.

Ryota Nishimura
西村 良太
Director
Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology

Ph.D. in Engineering from Toyohashi University of Technology. Previously at Nagoya University, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Keio University, and Tokushima University. Specializes in spoken dialogue systems, deep learning-based speech recognition, human interface and interaction, and intelligent robotics. Research includes real-time voice dialogue control using ROS. FIT Encouragement Award (2023), ACC TOKYO CREATIVITY AWARDS Gold (2022).

Kengo Ota
太田 健吾
Director
Associate Professor, National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Anan College / Visiting Associate Professor, Toyohashi University of Technology

Ph.D. in Engineering from Toyohashi University of Technology. Former JSPS Research Fellow. Specializes in speech recognition, speech synthesis, spoken dialogue systems, and presentation speech evaluation. Currently leading projects on AI-based educational material generation using large speech-language models and multimodal dialogue systems for elderly users. KOSEN President's Award for Faculty Excellence (2022), ICAICTA Best Paper Award (2024).