About Me
Highlights
- M.Sc. Robotics at EPFL with a Data Science minor
- Industry thesis at CynLr on active perception and view planning for robotic manipulation
- Published ICRA 2024 work on occlusion-robust human-to-robot handover as co-first author
- Deployed an ABB GoFa AI-driven choreography system exhibited at Swiss Design Awards 2025, Basel
- Developed vehicle-control tooling for Level-4 autonomous trucks at Daimler Trucks Asia
- Built robotics systems across ROS 2, PyTorch, OpenCV, PyBullet, Webots, Unity, and real robot hardware
Leadership & Community
As part of my extracurricular involvement at Waseda University, I co-founded the Google Developer Groups on Campus (GDGoC) chapter at Waseda University in 2021, a Google-backed student tech community where I served as President from 2022–23.
- Led and helped build a growing, interdisciplinary community of students passionate about technology and innovation
- Organized workshops, hackathons, and speaker sessions in collaboration with Google Japan
- Gained practical experience in leadership, communication, teamwork, and decision-making
- Fostered interdisciplinary collaboration between engineering, design, and business students
Technical Interests and Skills
- Robot Perception & Active Perception: next-best-view planning, multi-viewpoint monitoring, pose estimation, hand/arm occlusion handling
- Learning-Based Control & Motion Generation: PPO for legged locomotion, VAE-based robot motion generation, terrain-adaptive control
- Robotics Deployment: ROS 2 integration, ABB GoFa control, RobotStudio safety setup, Crazyflie hardware flight, simulation-to-hardware transfer
- Tools & Frameworks: Python, C++, PyTorch, ROS 2, OpenCV, MediaPipe, AlphaPose, PyBullet, Webots, Unity
Education & Experience
M.Sc. in Robotics
EPFL, Switzerland
Relevant Courses: Aerial Robotics, Legged Robots, Computational Motor Control, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Minor: Data Science
Mechatronics Engineer
Daimler Trucks Asia, Tokyo, Japan
Key Skills: ROS2, Python, Project Management
- Researched vehicle control development for a Highway Level-4 autonomous truck
- Integrated a Position and Orientation System (POS-LV) to extract information for accurate road geometry using ROS2
- Converted existing ROS1 libraries to ROS2 for improved system compatibility
B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering
Waseda University, Tokyo
Specialization: Robotics - Human-Robot Co-Existence, Sugano Laboratory
Research: Large-Object Human-to-Robot Handover as part of Japan Science and Technology Agency's (JST) Moonshot Program Goal 3
Minor: Computer Science and Communications Engineering
President & Co-founder
Google Developer Groups on Campus, Waseda University
Led a Google-backed student tech community focused on technology and innovation
- Organized workshops, hackathons, and speaker sessions in collaboration with Google Japan
- Built an interdisciplinary community bridging engineering, design, and business
- Developed leadership, communication, and project management skills
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