Summary
Daisuke Bekki is a professor of computational linguistics based in Chiyoda, Japan, with over two decades of research and teaching experience bridging mathematical, theoretical, and computational approaches to language. Trained at the University of Tokyo (Ph.D.) and with study at USC, he has held roles from JST researcher and doctoral fellow to long-standing faculty positions at Ochanomizu University, where he advanced from associate professor to professor. His work spans formal syntax, semantics, pragmatics and the philosophy of language, combining rigorous formal models with computational methods. Bekki is known for integrating evolutionary and cognitive perspectives into formal theory—an angle shaped by his time at the Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences—that yields insights not obvious from purely algorithmic treatments.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Linguistics, Linguistics at University of Southern California
University of Tokyo
Japanese, English