Ko Watanabe

PhD Student Researcher

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

and

RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau

I am a software engineer based in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

My area of expertise encompasses the entire Artificial Intelligence (AI) product implementation: from an idea or design to generation of machine learning function, developing software using web clouds, some backend techniques, model implementation, and improving the model after deploying the service.

Currently, I am a Ph.D. student at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau.

Education

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

Work Experience

Full-time

PhD Researcher, Psyberlab in RPTU Kaiserslautern and SDS Group in DFKI GmbH, Germany, Mar 2021 - Present
Software Engineer, Pococha in DeNA co ltd, Japan, Apr 2019 - Feb 2021

Internship

Software Engineer, Affectify Inc, Mar 2024 - Present
Scrum Master, Allesgood Inc, Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
Research Internship, DFKI GmbH, Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
Software Engineer, Rakuten Books in Rakuten Group, Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Student Internship, Public Relations in MEXT (Japanese Government), Aug 2018 - Sep 2018

News

[05.2024] Accepted work in EUSIPCO' 24 presenting work at Lyon, France
Edge-based Denoising Image Compression - In Press
[04.2024] Presenting work at Augmented Humans in Melbourne, Australia
Metacognition-EnGauge: Real-time Augmentation of Self-and-Group Engagement Levels Understanding by Gauge Interface in Online Meetings - ACM DL
[04.2024] Submitted PhD thesis to the Department of Computer Science
[03.2024] Accepted work in ETRA' 24 Short Paper presenting work at Glasgow, UK
Eye Movement in a Controlled Dialogue Setting - ResearchGate
[03.2024] Attend NII Shonan-Meeting
The Future of Education with AI - URL
[11.2023] Attend LeCycl Workshop in Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in Bonn
[10.2023] Attend UbiComp' 23 in Cancun, Mexico
Accelerating Knowledge Transfer by Sensing and Actuating Social-Cognitive States - ACM DL
[08.2023] Attend CHI' 23 in Hamburg, Germany
Combining the Knowledge of Experienced Programmers to Extract Useful Web Resources for Solving Programming Tasks - ACM DL

Commitee

IEEE SMARTCOMP 2024 - Poster/Demo Track Technical Program Committee

Reviews

IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (1), SMARTCOMP'24 (3), CHI' 24 (1), AHs' 24 (2), AHs' 23 (2)