Education

• [Apr 2025 - ] Master's Student in Komazawa University, Tokyo, Japan

  • Research topic: Gyaru-mind x LLM

  • Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Tatsunori Hirai

• [Apr 2021 - Mar 2025] B.M. in Komazawa University, Tokyo, Japan

  • Research topic: The dislogue system for playing "lateral-thinking quiz"

  • Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Tatsunori Hirai

Research Interests and Skills

Interests

• NLP (especially LLMs)

• AI Agent

• AI-driven choreography generation and dancing motion analysis

  • I haven’t had the chance to study it formally yet, but I’m really interested in! I’ve been doing hip-hop dance since I was 7, so my dance intuition is solid.

Skills

• python

• C++

• C# and Unity

• Photography and art (high School Focus)

Publication

• Momoka Ikegami, Masaki Kuribayashi, Takuya Kato, Saizo Aoyagi, and Tatsunori Hirai. 2026. "Thank God I'm Fly!': A Gyaru Persona Chatbot for Adopting a Positive Mindset to Prevent and Mitigate Negative Emotions. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 785, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3798615

• Momoka Ikegami, Takuya Kato, Saizo Aoyagi, and Tatsunori Hirai. 2026. A Dialogue Agent to Let Users Experience and Gently Enhance the "Gyaru-Mind". In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology, pages 128–133, Trento, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.

• 池上桃花, 加藤卓哉, 青柳西蔵, 平井辰典，「心理・言語的評価指標ギャルマイン度を用いたメンタルをアゲるためのギャルAIとの対話システム」，第33回インタラクティブシステムとソフトウェアに関するワークショップ（WISS2025），2-C14，pp.1--3，2025.12．

• 池上桃花, 加藤卓哉, 青柳西蔵, 平井辰典，「心理・言語的評価指標「ギャルマイン度」を用いたメンタルをアゲるためのギャルAIとのチャットシステム」，エンタテインメントコンピューティングシンポジウム2025論文集，pp.202--209，2025.8．

• 池上桃花, 加藤卓哉, 青柳西蔵, 平井辰典，「ギャルマイン度：LLMによる対話分析を用いた自己肯定・共感傾向の推定手法」，情報処理学会第264回自然言語処理（NL）研究会，情報処理学会研究報告2025-NL-264(11)， pp.1--8，2025.7．

Awards

• [19. Mar. 2026] The Komazawa University President’s Award

• [23. Mar. 2026] Komazawa University Alumni Association Award

• [5. Dec. 2025] Unity Award (WISS2025)

• [27. Aug. 2025] (EC2025)

  • (1)Outstanding General Session Award

  • (2)Special Committee Recommendation Award for Demo and Poster Presentation

  • (3)Outstanding Teaser Award 

• [7. Jul. 2025] Young Researcher Encouragement Award

• [24. Mar. 2025] Best Komazawa University Undergraduate Thesis Award

Work Experience

• [July 2025 - June 2026] Intern for Aww Inc.

  • AI development team

  • Persona design for virtual humans

• [July 2026 - ] Research Intern for AIST 人工知能研究センター

  • 覚醒プロジェクト2026 Accepted

• [July 2026 - ] Intern for ExaWizards Inc.