CV

Education

• Waseda University 2026 (Expected)

  • Mechanical Engineering Major 

  • Computer Science and Communications Engineering Minor

  • Sugano Laboratory (Robotics, Robot Learning, and HRI)

  • Simo-Serra Laboratory (Computer Vision, Graphics, and Generative Models)

• Marist Brothers International School 2022

  • International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma

  • English and Japanese Bilingual Diploma

Experiences

Aug 2025 ~ Now: Visiting Student Researcher @ KAIST

• Institute: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Interactive Robotic Systems Lab

• Research: Robot teleoperation

Feb 2025 ~ Now: Research Assistant @ Sony CSL, Cybernetic Humanity Group

• Institutes: Sony Computer Science Laboratories (CSL) and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) 

• Research: Shared autonomy for robot teleoperation

• Advisors: Shunichi Kasahara, Takeru Hashimoto

• Skills: Reinforcement Learning, Imitation Learning, Simulations, Sim-to-real

Aug 2024 ~ Oct 2024: Visiting Researcher @ CMU BIG

• Institute: Carnegie Mellon University, Bot Intelligence Group

• Research: Proprioceptive visual augmentation for soft robot teleoperation

• Advisors: Uksang Yoo, Peter Schaldenbrand, Elliot Xing

• Skills: ROS, VR, Unity, Robot Control, Teleoperation, Machine Learning

Dec 2023 ~ Oct 2024: Robotics Engineer Internship @ Tokyo Robotics

• Company: Tokyo Robotics

• Duties: Implementing ROS robot motions for Tokyo Robotics’ logistics robot product (GTC)

• Projects: Implementing and fine-tuning a vision language action (VLA) model on Tokyo Robotics’ humanoid robot product (Torobo)

• Skills: ROS, AWS Sagemaker, Robot Control, Machine Learning, MLOps

Publications/Projects

SoftBit: Soft Bimanual Teleoperation with Proprioceptive Visual Augmentation [Paper]

• HRI 2025 Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality for Human-Robot Interactions

TriForce Band: Leveraging Triaxial Tactile Sensing for Wrist Force-Myography Gesture Recognition

• UIST2025 Poster

TerrainDiffuser: Leveraging Text Prompts and Elevation Data for Dynamic Texture Generation [Paper (POC)]

• Simo-Serra Lab Research Project, sponsored by game studio Rikka Inc.

Table-top Twin: A Table-top Size Telepresence Robot

• Our telepresence robot won the top award at a hackathon hosted by CARTA HOLDINGS, INC. 

Extracurricular

• Co-founder of Kuma Lab

  • Student-based community aiming to explore the field of machine intelligence

  • Hosting paper reading sessions, seminars, and hands-on events

• Member of Google Developer Group at Campus

  • Education team

  • Hosting lectures, hands-on workshops, etc. for technical fields such as AI and Game Development

Technical Skills

• Language: Python, C++, C#, C

• Simulations/Game Engines: Isaac Sim, Genesis, Pybullet, Unity, Unreal Engine

• Frameworks: ROS, AWS SageMaker, PyTorch

• CAD: Autodesk Fusion, KiCAD

References

Jean Oh

• Associate Research Professor

• The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

• Email: jeanoh[at]cmu.edu

Lin Jia-Yeu

• Assistant Professor

• Faculty of Science and Engineering, Global Center for Science and Engineering

• Waseda University, School of Advanced Science and Engineering

• Email: erin[at]aoni.waseda.jp