Ph.D at EPFL CREATE Lab, Switzerland (2021 - current)

Completed the Undergraduate (B.A) and Masters (M.Eng) in the Engineering Tripos at the  University of Cambridge, UK (2017 - 2021) with distinction

Born and raised in Kyoto, Japan (1998 - 2017). Completed the IBDP diploma at Osaka International School

Ph.D at EPFL, CREATE Lab: Learning about research and making robots - robot hands, soft robotics, sensors, embodied intelligence, etc...  (2021 - now)

Top grade rank (1st class honors) for all four years for the Engineering Tripos at the University of Cambridge

M.Eng project: Optimization based controller for a VSA supervised by Dr. Fulvio Forni (2020-2021) 

Main lead and mechanical design lead for the RoboCup Rescue project: Building a disaster response robot from scratch. Self taught CAD/Electronics prototyping/software tools (2018-2021)

Internship at BIRL, Cambridge - first research project with Prof. Fumiya Iida. Got interested in research, decided to pursue Ph.D (2019)

Established the Cambridge University Robotics Society and ran multiple projects. Practical experience on organising groups from few - 50 people, fundraising, technical advice etc (2017-2021)

RoboCupJunior Technical Committee - Organizing and running the international league of the junior robotic competition in an international team, three years as the chair (2017 - 2021)

Scholarship from the Masason foundation (2017)

Got interested in robotics through junior robotics competitions - RoboCupJunior and WRO
Represented Japan multiple times at world competitions and won six international medals (2010-2015)