Welcome

Hello! I am Takeshi Onishi, a Research Scientist at Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., specializing in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where I conducted research in medical NLP. Earlier in my career, I worked at Toyota's Frontier Research Center, bridging advanced AI research with practical industry applications, including a visiting scholarship with Professor James Caverlee at Texas A&M University. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago in 2020, under the supervision of David McAllester, and hold a B.A. in Engineering from the Toyota Technological Institute in Japan.

About me

My brief self-introduction.

  • My research interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, and Information Retrieval.

Publications and talks

Activities

Here is my activities!

SMM4H-HeaRD 2025!

We are organizing SMM4H-HeaRD 2025! There are six challenging tasks with real data! Please register to join us!

The First Japan-US Science Forum in Southern California "Frontiers in Science; Innovations in AI and Data Science"

We had The First Japan-US Science Forum in Southern California on February 22, with more than 70 people and 19 poster presentations! Thank you very much for joining us!

The poster award at The First Japan-US Science Forum in Southern California

I won the outstanding poster presentation award at The First Japan-US Science Forum in Southern California for “ToponymQA: Toponym Linking as multiple-choice QA by Retrieval-Augmented Generation.” This research will be published soon!