Akihisa Watanabe

I am a first-year Master's student in Computer Science at Waseda University in the Simo-Serra Lab, advised by Prof. Edgar Simo-Serra. I received my B.Eng. in Applied Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, with a minor in Computer Science, from Waseda University.

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News

• Oct. 2025: Completed research internship at LY Corporation with Dr. Kent Fujiwara and Dr. Qing Yu.
• Oct. 2023: Open-Domain Dialogue Quality Evaluation: Deriving Nugget-level Scores from Turn-level Scores accepted to SIGIR Asia 2023.

Blog Posts

• JiT for Motion Diffusion Models

Publications

1. SimDiff: Simulator-constrained Diffusion Model for Physically Plausible Motion Generation
   Akihisa Watanabe, Jiawei Ren, Li Siyao, Erwin Wu, Yichen Peng, Edgar Simo-Serra. arXiv.
   paper / website
2. Open-Domain Dialogue Quality Evaluation: Deriving Nugget-level Scores from Turn-level Scores
   Rikiya Takehi, Akihisa Watanabe, Tetsuya Sakai. ACM SIGIR Asia '23.
   paper / slide

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