Kazuyoshi Yoshii received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in informatics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He is an Associate Professor with the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, and is concurrently the Leader of the Sound Scene Understanding Team, Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan. His research interests include music informatics, audio signal processing, and statistical machine learning.