curriculum vitae

General Information

Full Name	Yahui Fu
Contact	fu.yahuiii@gmail.com / fu.yahui.r4@f.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Languages	Chinese (native), English (fluent), Japanese (JLPT N2)

Research Interests

Spoken Dialogue Systems
- Multimodal Emotion & Personality Recognition
- Empathetic & Personality-aware Dialogue Generation
- User Modeling & Preference-adaptive Reinforcement Learning
- Full-duplex Spoken Dialogue Modeling
Human Robot Interaction

Education

Oct. 2021
–
Sep. 2024
Kyoto University – Ph.D. in Intelligence Science and Technology
- Supervised by Prof. Tatsuya Kawahara
- Thesis: Dialogue Comprehension and Personalization for Empathetic Response Generation.
Apr. 2020
–
Jun. 2021
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology – M.E. in Information Science
- Supervised by Prof. Shogo Okada
- Thesis: Conversational Semantic- and Knowledge-guided Graph convolutional Network for Multimodal Emotion Recognition.
Sep. 2018
–
Jun. 2021
Tianjin University – M.E in Computer Technology
- Supervised by Prof. Longbiao Wang
- Thesis: A Study on Context-independent and Context-dependent Emotion Recognition

Work Experience

Apr. 2026
–
present
Researcher at Nagoya University.
- Nagoya, Japan
Oct. 2024
–
Mar. 2026
Researcher at Kyoto University.
- Kyoto, Japan
Jul. 2023
–
Sep. 2023
Research Intern at rinna Co., Ltd.
- Tokyo, Japan
- Intern Report
Jul. 2021
–
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

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:
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
- Information Processing & Management
- Neural Networks
- ACL
- Interspeech
- SIGDIAL
- SLT
- HAI
- CCMI

Seminar presentations

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.