curriculum vitae

General Information

Full Name Yahui Fu
Contact fu.yahui.6v@kyoto-u.ac.jp
Languages Chinese (native), English (fluent), Japanese (Elementary)

Research Interests

  • Spoken Dialogue System
    • Empathetic response generation
    • LLMs for causal reasoning
    • Knowledge Graph Modeling
    • Personality adaptation
    • Human-robot interaction
  • Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Education

  • Oct. 2021
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    Sep. 2024
    Kyoto University
  • Apr. 2020
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    Jun. 2021
    Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology – M.E. in Information Science
    • Surpervised by Prof. Shogo Okada
    • Thesis: Conversational Semantic- and Knowledge-guided Graph convolutional Network for Multimodal Emotion Recognition.
  • Sep. 2018
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    Jun. 2021
    Tianjin University – M.E in Computer Technology

Work Experience

  • Oct. 2024
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    Present
    Program-Specific Researcher at Kyoto University.
    • Kyoto, Japan
  • Jul. 2023
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    Sep. 2023
    Research Intern at rinna Co., Ltd.
    • Tokyo, Japan
  • Jul. 2021
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    Sep. 2021
    Researcher at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    • Nomi, Japan

Honors and Awards

  • AWARDS
  • Fellowships
    • SPRING, awarded by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Oct. 2021–Sept. 2024
  • Scholarships
    • Tianjin University-JAIST Collaborative Educational Program Scholarship, awarded by Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) Apr. 2020–Mar. 2021

Computer skills

  • ○ Programming languages: Python, Matlab, LaTeX, C, C++.
  • ○ Frameworks: Pytorch, Keras.

Community Services

  • ○ Committee Member, YRRSDS 2024: Contributed to the organization of the Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) 2024, facilitating engaging discussions at Roundtable sessions.
  • ○ Reviewer: Information processing and management, SIGDIAL

Patents

  • A Method for Textual Emotion Recognition based on Sentiment Similarity-oriented Attention, Chinese patent: CN111966824A, November 20, 2020

Other Interests

  • ○ Sports: snowboard, hiking.
  • ○ Hobbies: traveling, guitar, ukulele, Chinese zither, cucurbit flute.