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
- Supervised by Prof. Tatusya Kawahara
- Thesis: Dialogue Comprehension and Personalization for Empathetic Response Generation.
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
- Surpervised by Prof. Longbiao Wang
- Thesis: A Study on Context-independent and Context-dependent Emotion Recognition

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
- Intern Report
Jul. 2021
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Sep. 2021
Researcher at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Nomi, Japan

Honors and Awards

AWARDS
- Outstanding Research Award, awarded by Kyoto University ICT Collaboration Promotion Network. Feb. 2024
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

Seminar presentations

○ The 58th Kansai Joint Speech Seminar (poster)
○ The 55th Kansai Joint Speech Seminar (poster)

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.