About Me

• Assistant professor (講師) at  Edgar Simo-Serra Lab. Waseda University, Tokyo Japan

• Email (for work): madorin2work[at]gmail.com

• Language: Japanese (native), English (communication level)

• Links : google scholar, github, waseda_db, researchmap

Education

• Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science Science, Waseda University. (Apr. 2021 - Mar. 2024   Sup. :  Edgar Simo-Serra)

• Master's student, Department of Computer Science Science, Waseda University. (Apr. 2019 -  Mar. 2021, Sup. : Tetsuji Ogawa)

• Bachelor's student,  Department of Computer Science Science, Waseda University. (Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2019, Sup. : Tetsuji Ogawa)

Projects

Work Experience

• Apr. 2024 - Present: Waseda University (Tokyo), Assitant Professor 

• Aug. 2023 - Present: Preferred Networks (Tokyo), Internship / Part-time Engineer ( mainly mentored by Keita Huguchi)

• July. 2022 - Oct. 2022: Adobe Research,  Internship (London, remote, mainly mentored by Niloy J. Mitra, Jakub Fišer ): 

• May. 2021 - Dec. 2021: Adobe Research,  Internship  /  art-time research collaborator (San Jose, remote, mainly mentored by Daichi Ito, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Yijun Li ) : 

• Feb. 2019 -  Dec. 2023: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Tokyo), Technical staff / Research Assistant (mentored by Masayuki Tanaka, Masaki Onishi) 

Academic Achievements

Fundings

2025/04/01 - 2028/03/31 : 日本学術振興会 科学研究費助成事業 (科研費) 若手研究 : 3,700,000 JPY  (researh funds)
2024/10/01 - 2027/03/31 : ACT-X 次世代ＡＩを築く数理・情報科学の革新 : 4,500,000 JPY (researh funds)
2023/06/01 - 2024/03/31 : 2024年度特定課題研究助成費（基盤形成研究 第2期分）: 300,000 JPY (researh funds)
2023/06/01 - 2024/03/31 : 早稲田大学 理工学術院総合研究所 アーリーバードプログラム (13期) : 800,000 JPY (research funds)
2021/10/01 - 2024/03/31 : 次世代研究者挑戦的研究プログラム (JST) : 200,000 JPY (monthly salary) + 500,000 JPY (research funds per year)

Patent

• Vectorized Caricature Avatar Generator, US Patent (Daichi Ito, Yijun Li, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Koki Madono, Jose Ignacio Echevarria Vallespi, Cameron Younger Smith)

Award

• 2022年度 CGVI  優秀研究発表賞  (Data-Driven Brushstroke Rendering for Real world nuance expression)

• 2024年度 サイバーエージェント 企業賞 (Visual Computing 2024, Hint-AUC: Deterministic Region-based Hint Generation for Line Art Colorization Evaluation)

Media & Other awards

2024/07/15  早稲田 Campus Now  2024年7月号
2024/04/16 早稲田ウィークリー 研究まっしぐら 「水墨画をきれいに描けるデジタル技術の研究」
2024/03/12 第13期アーリーバード成果報告会  最優秀賞発表賞 （記事）,  joint work with 高野 俊輔さん、田中 優帆さん、中居 詢子さん

Educational Activities

• 2024年度 

  • Teaching Class (Waseda Univ.)

    • Spring : Science and Engineering Laboratory 1A , Introduction to Java Programming Sugaku, Denshibutsuri, Hyogen

    • Fall: Science and Engineering Laboratory 1B, Java Programming Densei1
      
      

Review Activities

• International Conference : BMVC (2021), WACV(2024 round1,2), IEEE Access 2021

• Journals : 電子情報通信学会英文論文誌A (2025)