Junichi Yamagishi received a Ph.D. from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2006 for a thesis that pioneered speaker-adaptive speech synthesis. He is a Professor at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. Previously, he held an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship in the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh, U.K., from 2011 to 2016. He has authored and co-authored more than 400 refereed papers in international journals and conferences.

He served as an elected member of the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee from 2013 to 2019, as an Associate Editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing from 2014 to 2017, as chairperson of ISCA SynSIG from 2017 to 2021, as a Senior Associate Editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing from 2019 to 2023, and as a member of the APSIPA Technical Committee on Multimedia Security and Forensics from 2018 to 2023. He has been part of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Education Board since 2021.

He received numerous distinctions including the Itakura Prize (Acoustic Society of Japan), the Kiyasu Special Industrial Achievement Award (Information Processing Society of Japan), the Young Scientists’ Prize (MEXT), the JSPS Prize, the IEEE WIFS Best Paper Award, the Docomo Mobile Science Award, the IEEE BTAS/IJCB 5-Year Highest Impact Award, and the Award for Science and Technology (Research Category) from MEXT, in 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2023, and 2025, respectively.