About me

[Profile]

I'm a Lecturer at the School of Fundamental Science and Engineering in Waseda University. I received a Ph.D from the Department of Pure and Applied Physics at Waseda University in 2017, under the supervision of Prof. Shigeo Morishima. I obtained my B.E. and M.E. degree in 2012 and 2014 respectively. During 2017-2023, I was mainly working at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology in the University of Tokyo, where I was a member of User Interface Research Group and working with Prof. Takeo Igarashi as an assistant professor. Before that, I worked with Daichi Ito (Sr. Technical Artist / Concept Designer), Darshan Prasad (Research Engineer), Duygu Ceylan (Research Scientist), and Radomír Měch (Principal Scientist) at Adobe Research as an internship student for three months from July 2015, for three months from June 2016 and for three month from April 2017. In addition, I have joined an exploratory software project IPA MITOH Program as a programmer for ten months from June 2014, Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering as a Junior Researcher (Assistant Professor) in April 2017, and  a CG technical advisor at Japan Medical Company Inc (2022). My main research areas are Computer Graphics (CG) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) such as cartoon animation. I received the best paper awards at ACE, CASA, CVMJ, IEEJ, IPSJ, ISID, NICOGRAPH International, and VL/HCC. ACM, IPSJ, IIEEJ member. 

[Research Interest]

My current research interest is Computer Graphics and Human Computer Interaction, especially for cartoon animation:

• User Experience Design

• Geometry Processing

• Video & Image Processing

• Information Visualization

Biography

03/2012 Received a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E), Waseda University, Japan.

03/2014 Received a Master of Engineering (M.E), Waseda University, Japan.

04/2014 Ph.D candidate, Waseda University, Japan.

06/2014 IPA:Exploratory IT Human Resource Project (The MITOH Program), Japan. (Mentor : Akihito Fujii)

04/2015 Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2), JSPS, Japan. (Mentor : Shigeo Morishima)

07/2015 Internship at Adobe Research in San Jose, California, USA. (Mentor : Daichi Ito, Radomír Měch)

06/2016 Internship at Adobe Research in San Jose, California, USA. (Mentor : Daichi Ito, Darshan Prasad, Duygu Ceylan)

03/2017 Received a Ph.D in Engineering, Waseda University, Japan.

04/2017 Junior Researcher (Assistant Professor), Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Japan.

04/2017 Internship at Adobe Research in San Jose, California, USA. (Mentor : Daichi Ito, Duygu Ceylan)

09/2017 Assistant Professor, the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Japan.

04/2023 Lecturer, the School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Dept. of Intermedia Art and Science, Waseda Univesity, Japan.

Work Experience

• Lecturer, the School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Dept. of Intermedia Art and Science, Waseda Univesity, Japan, 2023/04-current. [link]

• Technical Advisor at Japan Medical Company Inc., Japan. 08/2022 - 03/2023. [link]

• Assistant Professor, the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Japan. 09/2017 - 03/2023. [link]

• Junior Researcher (Assistant Professor), Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Japan. 04/2017 - 08/2017. [link]

• Internship at Adobe Research in San Jose, California, USA. 04/2017 - 07/2017. [link]

• Internship at Adobe Research in San Jose, California, USA. 06/2016 - 09/2016. [link]

• Internship at Adobe Research in San Jose, California, USA. 07/2015 - 10/2015. [link]

• Research assistant of SEIREN Co., Ltd. "Virtual Clothing System for Personal Order Shopping." 05/2015 - 03/2016.

• Research assistant of CREST, JST. "Building a Similarity-aware Information Environment for a Content-Symbiotic Society." 04/2014 - 03/2016. [link]

• IPA:Exploratory IT Human Resources Project (The MITOH Program). "Sketching Interface for Freehand Drawing Animation." 06/2014 - 03/2015. [link]

Selected Projects

All research projects are available here.

Publications

My list of publications is available here.

Technical Skills 

• • Programming: C++, C, Objective-C, JavaScript, OpenGL, OpenCV, openFrameworks, MEL Script.

  • Software: Autodesk Maya

  • Development: Visual Studio, Xcode

Contact

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Address: 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan

E-Mail: tsukasafukusato[at]waseda.jp