Ko Watanabe

News

• [12.2025] IMWUT (November Round) - 1 paper

• [11.2025] IUI Full-Paper Review - 4 papers

• [10.2025] Presenting two paper in UbiComp-ISWC 2025  at Espoo, Finland 🇫🇮
  - From Neck to Head: Bio-Impedance Sensing for Head Pose Estimation
  - Push or Light: Nudging Standing to Break Prolonged Sitting

• [10.2025] CHI Full-Paper Review - 5 papers 🇪🇸

• [09.2025] Open IFAC WC OIT webpage: Learning-Enabled and Human-Centric Robotics with Wearable and Sensor Systems 🇰🇷

• [09.2025] Hosted workshop "Trustworthy AI" in IATM conference at Frankfurt, Germany 🇩🇪

• [09.2025] Joined Aspire workshop about Medical AI held in DFKI at Kaiserslautern, Germany 🇩🇪

• [09.2025] Lovely son born in 1st of September 🎉 

• [08.2025] Assigned as MUM 2025 program committee.

• [07.2025] Accepted work in ISWC 2025 (Note). Will be presented at Espoo, Finland 🇫🇮
  - From Neck to Head: Bio-Impedance Sensing for Head Pose Estimation

• [06.2025] Accepted work in UbiComp 2025 (Poster). Will be presented at Espoo, Finland 🇫🇮
  - Push or Light: Nudging Standing to Break Prolonged Sitting

• [06.2025] Attending HCII 2025 in Gothenburg, Sweden 🇸🇪
  - SensPS: Sensing Personal Space Comfortable Distance Between Human-Human Using Multimodal Sensors
  - HITL Annotation for Image-Based Engagement Estimation: Assessing the Impact of Model Reliability on Annotation Accuracy

• [06.2025] Accepted work in IEEE Access (Journal Paper)
  - EyeUnderstand: Dashboard for Gaze and Deep-Learning Driven Comprehension Estimation in Online Lectures

• [05.2025] Received "Best Short Paper Award" in ETRA 2025 🏆

• [05.2025] Attending ETRA 2025 in Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany, 2024

• M.S. in Computer Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, 2019

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, 2017