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Work

Adjunct Researcher, Keio University, Apr. 2024 - Present
- Post-doctoral researcher
- Event camera research, teaching students, and sometimes giving lectures/talks
Research Scientist, Woven by Toyota, Oct. 2023 - Present
- Vision AI Team
- Stealth R&D projects using event cameras
- VLLM Research for Woven City (NEDO-funded project, news in Japanese)
- Large-scale cloud-based ML inference service
Software Engineer, Woven by Toyota, Feb. 2019 - Sep. 2021
- Arene AI Team
- MLOps, large-scale ML-data pipeline, and ML research for Toyota’s autonomous driving
- Feb. 2019 - Dec. 2020: Software Engineer L3
- Jan. 2021 - Sep. 2021: Software Engineer L4
- Oct. 2021 - Sep. 2023: Leave of absence
Software Engineer, Toyota Motor Corporation, Apr. 2017 - Feb. 2019
- Advanced driving and autonomous driving division, perception & HMI team
- Transferred to Woven by Toyota in Feb 2019

Education

Ph. D (visiting) in Electrical Engineering, September 2021 - September 2023
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Prof. Guillermo Gallego
- Event-based camera, motion and optical flow estimation
Ph. D in Electrical Engineering, September 2019 - September 2023
- Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan
- Prof. Yoshimitsu Aoki
- Event-based camera, optical flow and depth estimation
MSc in Behavioral neuroscience, April 2015 - March 2017
- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Prof. Kazuo Okanoya
- Neural mechanism of auditory and vocal processing in songbird brain, through in vivo recording of neural activity and arousal state of individual.
BSc in Behavioral neuroscience, April 2011 - March 2015
- The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Prof. Kazuo Okanoya
- Behavioral experiments and underlying mechanism of vocal control against background noise in songbird.

Research Engineer Internship, Preferred Networks, Inc. Dec. 2015 - Mar. 2017
- Solving a self-driving related problem with our original deep Q network.
- Medical image analysis with 3D CNN.
- Tech blog (in Japanese)
Software and Data Engineer Internship, Recruit Institute of Technology, Feb. 2016 - Oct. 2016
- Tokyo, Data analysis for restaurant reservation
- California, Chat bot and NLP software
Software Engineer Internship, NTT Media Intelligence Institution, Aug. 2015 - Sep. 2015
- Human speech recognition DNN model, inspired from auditory processing in human brain
- Outstanding performance award

14th JSPS Ikushi Prize, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2024. En/Jp
Dean’s Dissertation Award, Faculty of Science and Technology (Fujiwara Award), Keio University, 2024.
Best paper award, ViEW 2022 (in Japanese)
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), 2021-2023.
- Bi-national Ph.D supervision fellopship
MITOU Advanced, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan. 2018.
- Developing software for brand-new neuromorphic vision sensor (event camera). Funded competition ($80,000).
- I lead my team, and implemented libraries and algorithms.
- Project page (in Japanese)
- Project report (in Japanese)
First prize in software challenge, Toyota Motor Corporation, 2018.
- Software Skill Challenge (Assessment) within the autonomous driving division, Toyota Motor Corporation
2nd prize for the patent-of-the-year award, Toyota Motor Corporation, 2017.
- Patent of the year in the autonomous driving division, Toyota Motor Corporation