Challenge Program

Junichi Yamagishi

National Institute of Informatics

Bio: 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 currently a Professor at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan. From 2011 to 2016, he held an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship at the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR), University of Edinburgh, U.K. Over the course of his career, he has authored or co-authored more than 400 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences. His work includes Mesonet, the first study on deepfake facial video detection, and ASVspoof, a widely used benchmark database for training and evaluating deepfake audio detection models. Dr. Yamagishi has held numerous leadership and editorial roles. He served as an elected member of the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee (2013–2019), Associate Editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (2014–2017), Chair of ISCA SynSIG (2017–2021), and Senior Associate Editor for the same IEEE/ACM journal (2019–2023). He was also a member of the APSIPA Technical Committee on Multimedia Security and Forensics (2018–2023), and has been serving on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Education Board since 2021. His contributions have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the Itakura Prize from the Acoustical Society of Japan, the Kiyasu Special Industrial Achievement Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan, the Young Scientists’ Prize from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the JSPS Prize from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS). He has also received the Docomo Mobile Science Award, the IEEE Biometrics Council’s BTAS/IJCB 5-Year Highest Impact Award, and the Award for Science and Technology (Research Category) from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2023, and 2025.