Biography

[2015.05-Present] Assistant Manager/Principal Research Scientist, Vision Program Tokyo Group, Rakuten Institute of Technology, Rakuten Group, Inc. 

• [2022.08-Present] Assistant Manager of Visual Understanding Team

• [2021.01-Present] Principal Research Scientist 

• [2020.07-2020.12] Lead Research Scientist 

• [2019.01-2020.06] Senior Research Scientist 

• [2015.05-2018.12] Research Scientist  

[2017.04-2019.03] Visiting Researcher, Art & Design Department, University of Tsukuba (Additional post)

[2011.04-2015.04] Postdoctoral researcher, Yagi lab., ISIR, Osaka Univ.

[2008.03-2011.04] JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1)

[2008.04-2011.03] Doctoral course, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University (Supervisor: Prof. Y. Aoki)

[2006.04-2008.03] Master course, Graduate School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology (Supervisor: Prof. Y. Aoki)

[2002.04-2006.03] Bachelor course, College of Systems Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology

[1999.04-2002.03] General course, Nagano Prefecture Senior High School

[2023.07] Paper Review Contribution Award, MIRU2023 [Certificate]

[2018.07] Paper Review Contribution Award, MIRU2018 [Certificate]

[2017.09] Best Demo Award, ICEC2017 (1st author) [Certificate]

[2017.09] Best Poster Award, ICEC2017 (2nd author) [Certificate]

[2011.11] 日本金属学会第59回論文賞（共著）

[2009.11] 慶應義塾大学 2009年度国際会議論文発表奨励賞

[2008.03] 芝浦工業大学 大学院工学研究科 電気電子情報工学専攻 有元賞（準総代）

[2006.02] 映像情報メディア学会 メディア工学研究会 2月研究会 優秀発表賞

[2024.07] Lecture@Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, (Computer Vision Research and its Applications at Rakuten Institute of Technology)

[2024.05] Lecture @Chubu Univ. (Computer Vision Research and its Applications at Rakuten Institute of Technology)

[2023.11] Teck talk@Rakuten Tech Conference2023 ("Fusing AI with Pro Sports Insights: State and Future of Sports Performance Assessment with Computer Vision" with Prof. HIROSAWA)

[2023.09] Tech talk @Rakuten Tech Forum2023 (Rakuten Institute of Technology and Computer Vision Research and its Applications)

[2023.07] Lecture @Chubu Univ. (Computer Vision Research and its Applications at Rakuten Institute of Technology)

[2021.07] Lecture @Chubu Univ. (Computer vision for Rakuten Businesses)

[2019.11] Intelligent System B1 lecture (Computer Vision for Rakuten Businesses) @Nagoya University

[2019.09] Lecture (Depth Sensing) @IAIP

[2019.07] Lecture (Computer Vision for Rakuten Businesses) @Keio Univ.

[2019.07] Lecture (Computer Vision for Rakuten Businesses) @Chubu Univ.

[2018.12] Invited talk (Computer Vision for Rakuten Businesses) @International workshop, Chubu University 

[2018.11] Intelligent System B1 lecture (Depth Sensing) @Nagoya University

[2018.07] CCSE (Privacy and Computer vision) @ Meiji University

[2018.02] Computer Science Special lecture (Depth Sensing) @University of Tsukuba 

[2017.11] Intelligent System B1 lecture (Depth Sensing) @Nagoya University

[2017.01] Computer Science Special lecture (Depth Sensing) @University of Tsukuba 

CVPR reviewer, CVPR2026

ICCV reviewer, ICCV2025

ECCV reviewer, ECCV2024

WACV reviewer, WACV2023, WACV2024, WACV2025

SSI Vice-Program Chair, SSII2022, SSII2023

SSII General affairs committee, SSII2016, SSII2017, SSII2018, SSII2019 (Vice Chair), SSII2020 (Chair), SSII2021 (Advisor)

MIRU Reviewer, MIRU2018, MIRU2019, MIRU2020, MIRU2021, MIRU2022 (Senior evaluator), MIRU2023 , MIRU2024, MIRU2025

Organizer, ECEC2017

ACPR Program committee, ACPR2015, ACPR2017

Web & Financial Chair, ASVAI2013

Program committee, ACPR2013

Organizer, 関西CVPRML勉強会  (2014.09-2015.04)