- ForceMapping: learning visual-force features from vision for soft objects manipulation, Advanced Robotics, 2025
- A qualitative study of DevOps usage in practice, Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 2017
- A glance of cultural differences in the case of interactive device art installation idMirror, AI & Society, 2017
- International Conference Articles:
- Learning bimanual manipulation via action chunking and inter-arm coordination with transformers, IEEE CASE, 2025
- Foundation Models need to be culturally fine-tuned, IEEE/SICE SII, 2025
- A Pipeline for Transparency Estimation of Glass and Plastic Bottle Images for Neural Scanning, IEEE/SICE SII, 2025
- PEGASUS: Physically Enhanced Gaussian Splatting Simulation System for 6DOF Object Pose Dataset Generation, IEEE IROS, 2024
- NeuralLabeling: A versatile toolset for labeling vision datasets using Neural Radiance Fields, IEEE IROS, 2024
- Visual Imitation Learning of Non-Prehensile Manipulation Tasks with Dynamics-Supervised Models, IEEE ICRA, 2023
Research Experience
- Since 2024: Senior Research Scientist at AIST
- 2022: Tenured Research Scientist at AIST
- 2020: Tenure Track Research Scientist at AIST
- 2018: Post-Doctoral Researcher at AIST
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy in Human Informatics, University of Tsukuba, 2018
- Master of Science in Business Information Technology, University of Twente, 2016
- Master of Science in Computer Science, University of Twente (Cum Laude), 2015
- Bachelor of ICT, HAN University of Applied Sciences, 2013
Background
Research interests include artificial intelligence and robotics. Currently, he is a Senior Research Scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST Tokyo Waterfront.