2015年10月に静岡大学情報学部情報科学科に着任しました。 インターネットやクラウド上に蓄積された大量の映像や音声などのビッグデータから，本当にほしい情報だけを瞬時に取り出せるために，音データの構造化ならびに検索技術の研究開発に取り組んでいます．また，高齢者が自らの力でいきいきとした生活が送れるように支援を行う日常生活行動のモニタリングや，障がいの影響を感じさせない誰もが使いやすいユニバーサルなコミュニケーションの実現を目指しています．
Masafumi Nishida received a B.E. in 1997, an M.E. in 1999, and a Ph.D. in 2002, all in Electronics and Informatics, and all from Ryukoku University, Shiga, Japan. From 2002 to 2003, he was a post-doctoral researcher at PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation. In 2003, he became a Research Associate at the Department of Information Science, Chiba University. From 2007 to 2008, he was an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University. From 2009 to 2013, he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems Design, Doshisha University. In 2014, he was an Designated Associate Professor at the Institute of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics, Shizuoka University. His research interests include speech recognition, speaker recognition, spoken dialogue systems, well-being information technology, and behavior signal processing. He received the 2011 Yamashita SIG Research Award from IPSJ. He is a Member of the IEICE, the IPSJ, the ASJ, the JSAI and the HI.