This is Tanichu's (Tadahiro Taniguchi's) personal website.
Tanichu is a nick name of Tadahiro Taniguchi. Tadahiro Taniguchi is written in kanji with 谷口(Taniguchi) 忠大(Tadahiro.) 谷 is pronounced as Tani, and 忠 is pronounced as Chu in on-yomi pronunciation in Japanese. Therefore, many people in Japan call me "tanichu." Please call me tanichu without hesitation :-).
「たにちゅー」は谷口忠大のニックネームです． 谷が「たに」で，忠が音読みで「ちゅー」なのです．ご遠慮なく，「たにちゅー」「たにちゅーさん」「たにちゅー先生」などとお呼びください．
2024/4/1 Tadahiro Taniguchi has joined the Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto University as a professor.
# Following this event, contents of this website will be updated very soon.
2024/4/1 京都大学大学院情報学研究科に教授として着任しました。 これに伴い、本サイトのコンテンツは近日中に更新される予定です。
Tadahiro Taniguchi received his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Kyoto University in 2003 and 2006, respectively. From April 2005 to March 2006, he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow (DC2) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. He continued as a JSPS Research Fellow (PD) in the same department from April 2006 to March 2007 and then at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, from April 2007 to March 2008.
From April 2008 to March 2010, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human and Computer Intelligence at Ritsumeikan University. He was promoted to Associate Professor in the same department, serving from April 2010 to March 2017. During this period, he also spent a year as a Visiting Associate Professor at Imperial College London, from September 2015 to September 2016.
From April 2017 to March 2024, he was a Professor in the Department of Information and Engineering at Ritsumeikan University. Concurrently, he served as a Visiting General Chief Scientist at Panasonic Holdings Corporation. Since April 2024, he has been a Professor at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, while also serving as an Affiliate Professor at the Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University. Additionally, he is a Senior Technical Advisor at Panasonic Holdings Corporation and Chair of the IEEE Cognitive and Developmental Systems Technical Committee.
Throughout his career, Taniguchi has been deeply engaged in research on machine learning, emergent systems, cognitive robotics, and symbol emergence, making significant contributions to these fields.
1978年6月24日京都生まれ。京都大学大学院情報学研究科教授。博士（工学・京都大学）。2006年京都大学大学院工学研究科博士課程修了。立命館大学情報理工学部助教、准教授、教授を経て2024年より現職。その間、Imperial College London客員准教授などを歴任。現在、パナソニックホールディングス株式会社シニアテクニカルアドバイザーを兼務し、AI研究開発にも従事。また、一般社団法人Tomorrow Never Knows理事、一般社団法人ビブリオバトル協会代表理事、一般社団法人AIロボット協会（AIRoA）理事、株式会社ABEJA技術顧問、IEEE Cognitive and Developmental Systems Technical CommitteeのChair。専門は人工知能、創発システム、認知発達ロボティクス。言葉の学習とその意味理解のメカニズムを、記号接地問題やシンボル創発という観点から、構成論的アプローチを用いて探求する「記号創発ロボティクス」の分野を開拓。主な受賞歴にシステム制御情報学会論文賞、Advanced Robotics Best Survey Paper Awardなど多数。主な著書に『記号創発ロボティクス』（講談社）、『心を知るための人工知能』（共立出版）、『イラストで学ぶ人工知能概論』（講談社）など多数。
Dr. Tadahiro Taniguchi [Google Scholar] [Google Image],
Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
(Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering),
1-1-1 Noji Higashi, Kusatsu, Shiga, 525-8577, Japan.
Tel & Fax: +81-77-561-5745,
Office: 412 Creation-Core,
Email: taniguchi[ at ]ci.ritsumei.ac.jp,
Web: http://www.em.ci.ritsumei.ac.jp/en
Visiting General Chief Scientist, Panasonic
Born: June 24 1978
Place of birth: Kyoto, Japan
Citizenship: Japan
Marital status: Married
Ph.D. Engineering, Kyoto University, 2006
Dissertation: Constructive Approach towards Autonomous Adaptive System Interacting with Environment. (in Japanese).
Committee: T. Sawaragi, T. Monnai, and N. Tomita.
M.A. Engineering, Kyoto University, 2003
B.S. Engineering, Kyoto University, 2001
RARA Fellow, Ritsumeikan University, Ritsumeikan Advanced Research Academy, April 2022 - present.
Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Department of Human & Computer Intelligence, College of Information Science and Engineering, April 2017 - present.
Visiting General Chief Scientist, Panasonic, April 2017- present
Visiting Associate Professor, Imperial College London, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, September 2015 -- September 2016. (Host researcher: Dr. Yiannis Demiris)
Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Department of Human & Computer Intelligence, College of Information Science and Engineering, April 2010 - March 2017.
Assistant Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Department of Human & Computer Intelligence, College of Information Science and Engineering, April 2008 - March 2010.
Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, June 2008 - - March 2010.
Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD), Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, April 2007 - March 2008.
Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD), Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, April 2006 - March 2007.
Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC2), Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, April 2005 - March 2006.
Symbol Emergence Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cognitive Robotics, Symbol Grounding, Decentralized Systems,