Short Bio

I am an assistant professor at the Real-World Informative Robotics Lab (Kurazume & Kawamura Lab) of Kyushu University in Japan. I completed my PhD at Kyushu University in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Ryo Kurazume. During my doctoral studies, I also worked as a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS) and a research intern at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). My research focuses on computer vision and robotics.

Employments

  • Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Mar 2023 – Present
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Apr 2021 – Feb 2023
  • Research Fellow (PD), The Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS), Jan – Mar 2021
  • Research Fellow (DC2), The Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS), Apr 2019 – Dec 2020
  • Research Assistant (RA), Kyushu University, Apr 2018 – Mar 2019
  • Research Assistant (RA), Center for Co-Evolutional Social Systems, Kyushu University, Apr – Sep 2019
  • Part-time Lecturer, Kyushu Electric College, Apr 2015 – Mar 2017

Education

  • Ph.D., Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Dec 2020
  • Master in Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Mar 2017
  • Bachelor in Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Compuer Science, School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Mar 2015

Internships

  • Research Intern, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Oct – Dec 2017
  • Research Intern, Toshiba Corporate Research & Development Center, Aug 2015

Awards

  • Contribution Award, MPR 2019 (workshop)
  • Best Poster Presentation Award, MPR 2018 (workshop)
  • Student Incentive Award, 19 selected students, MIRU 2017 (Japanese conference on computer vision)
  • Finalist of Best Service Robotics Paper Award, 4 selected papers, ICRA 2017

Grants

  • Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Apr 2023 – Mar 2026
  • Research Start Program, Kyushu University, Apr 2022 — Mar 2023
  • Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (DC2/PD), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Apr 2019 — Mar 2021

Scholarships

  • Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2/PD), A monthly stipend funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Apr 2019 — Mar 2021
  • Doctoral Scholarship, A yearly stipend funded by Kyushu University, 2017 and 2018
  • Overseas Internship Program, A maintenance allowance for a 3-month Internship at NASA JPL, funded by Kyushu University, Oct 2017 — Dec 2017
  • Graduate Student Scholarship, 2-year stipends funded by Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO), Apr 2015 — Mar 2017

Talks

Academic Services

Member

  • IEEE
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
  • The Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ)

Reviewer

Journal

  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2022, 2023
  • Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2023
  • IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI) 2021
  • Discover Artificial Intelligence 2022
  • IEICE Transactions 2021, 2022, 2023
  • Advanced Robotics 2023, 2024

Conference

  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024
  • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022, 2023
  • IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2021
  • IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) 2019, 2020
  • IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII) 2022, 2023
  • Augmented Humans International Conference (AHs) 2024
  • IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM) 2024

Comittee

Domestic (Japan)

  • Symposium on Fuzzy, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Computational Intelligence (FAN) 2023