■　松井　知子：Tomoko MATSUI

［所信表明］

本学会の活性化について、特に融合分野の研究促進、および国際化の推進に重点を置き、皆様と一緒に考え、微力ながら尽力する所存です。実社会の多くの課題はIoTなどの情報通信技術を活用し、従来の分野境界を超えて取り組むことが求められています。そのため近年、AIや機械学習、IoT、データ科学などの基盤分野と応用分野との融合研究が注目されています。企画理事として、両分野の連携を円滑にして融合研究をより促進する仕組みを考えていきたいと思います。また国際学会・会議の委員の経験を生かし、本学会活動に対する国際的な評価が高まるような仕組みも考えていきたいと思います。

［プロフィール］

1988年東工大・修士課程修了。同年NTT入社。1998年東工大・博士（工学）取得。1998-2002年ATR出向。2001年米ベル研・客員。2003年統計数理研究所入所。音声／画像／環境データのための統計手法の研究開発などに従事、現在に至る。2004年米ジョージア工科大、2007年カナダUBC、2009年独マックス・プランク研、2010年仏パリテック大・各客員。本学会・評議員、同情報・システムソサイエティ誌編集幹事、IEEE-SSP-SLT技術委員などを歴任。

［Statement］

Many of the challenges we now face in the real world require effective utilization of information and communication technologies such as IoT and the ability to work across traditional boundaries between fields. This has led in recent years to increased interest in interdisciplinary research across fundamental fields including artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, and data science and across several applied fields. As one of the planning directors, I will work to strengthen the Society’s ability to develop solutions aimed at these challenges. I will focus on the promotion of interdisciplinary research and internationalization through intensive and extensive discussions with Society members. I will work to implement a mechanism for facilitating collaboration across fields so as to further promote integrated research. In addition, I will consider the development of a mechanism that supports international evaluation of the Society’s activities by making full use of my experience serving on committees of international societies.

［Biography］

Tomoko Matsui received an M.E. degree in information science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1988, after which she worked at NTT until 1998 and then at ATR until 2002. She received the Ph. D. degree in computer science from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, in 1997. She was a visiting researcher at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, in 2001. In 2003, she joined the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, where she has focused on the research and development of statistical methods for speech, images, environmental data, and so on. She was a visiting researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2004, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in 2007, at the Max Planck Institute, Tubingen, Germany, in 2009, and at ParisTech, Paris, France, in 2010. She has served as a councilor of the Society, as the editor secretary of the Society magazine, and as a member of IEEE-SSP-SLT Technical committee.