Ken Sugiyama of Yahoo! Japan Corporation

This lecture presents an easy and lazy way in a step-by-step manner to prepare technical papers targeting at novices such as entry-level engineers and young scientists including students. A good logic is a key to good papers, however, it is not easy for unexperienced authors to establish. As a solution, “Slides First” is proposed and explained in details with examples. Slides help the authors build a solid logic for the paper, which directly benefits them by making reviewers understand the point of the paper easily and clearly, leading to a higher review score. There is a specific order of preparation to make the process most efficient. The highlight is a three point analysis for which templates are provided to clarify the value, the trick, and a user benefit of the paper. These three points naturally lead to a good paper title that can also be used in the abstract. This lecture is unique in the point that it tells how drafting should proceed, not what a draft should include, which is the difference from technical writing books and websites.

Biography:

Akihiko Sugiyama (a.k.a. Ken Sugiyama), affiliated with Yahoo! JAPAN Research, has been engaged in a wide variety of research projects in signal processing such as audio coding and interference/noise control. Prior to Yahoo Japan, he had a long career at NEC Central Research Laboratories as a research engineer. He served as the Chair of Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee, Signal Processing Society (SPS), as associate editor for Trans. Signal Processing, as the Secretary and a Member at Large to the SPS Conference Board, as a member of the SPS Awards Board, as the Chair of SPS Japan Chapter, and a member of IEEE Fellow Committee. He was a Technical Program Chair for ICASSP2012. Currently, he serves as a member of the IEEE Fellow Committee and the IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Medal Committee. He has contributed to 17 chapters of books and is the inventor of 217 registered patents with more pending applications in the field of signal processing. He received 20 awards such as the 2002 IEICE Best Paper Award, the 2006 and 2018 IEICE Achievement Award, the 2013 Ichimura Industry Award, and the 2021 IEICE Distinguished Achievement and Contribution Award. He has delivered 169 invited talks in 87 cities of 30 countries. He is a past SPS Distinguished Industry Speaker, a Renowned Distinguished Speaker (The Rock Star) for Consumer Technology Society (CTS) and a past Distinguished Lecturer for SPS and CTS.

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