Education

Degree


Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 09/2019 -

M.S. in Electrical Engineering (Major: Systems, Control and Robotics), Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 09/2016 - 03/2019

M.S. in Integrated Design Engineering (Major: Electronics and Electrical Engineering), Keio University, Japan, 04/2016 - 03/2019

B.E. in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Japan, 04/2012 - 03/2016

Employment

Research


Title / Employer Duration

Project: AI Robotics Research
Manager: Fabio Ramos
Collaborators:

11/2022 - 1/2022

Project: AI Research
Manager: Thomas Walsh, James MacGlashan, Kaushik Subramanian
Collaborators:

06/2022 - 10/2022

Research Advisors: Prof. Emanuel Todorov, Prof. Sham Kakade
Guraduate Advisor: Elise DeGoede Dorough, M.Ed.

09/2019 -

Supervisor: Prof. Kenichi Bannai

05/2019 - 08/2019

Project: Develop machine learning algorithms
Supervisor: Prof. Kenichi Bannai (Mathematical Science Team)
Advisor: Prof. Masashi Sugiyama
Proposed a novel model-based reinforcement learning algorithm in RKHSs for systems described by stochastic differential equations

05/2018 - 08/2019

Project: Barrier-Certified Adaptive Reinforcement Learning
Advisor: Prof. Magnus Egerstedt
PhD mentors: Li Wang and Gennaro Notomista
Designed a novel algorithm for barrier-certified adaptive reinforcement learning, and applied it to navigations of a BrushBot

07/2017 - 01/2018

Project: Develop a toolbox of Model Predictive Control for Julia
Advisor & Supervisor: Mikael Johansson
PhD mentors: Arda Aytekin and Martin Biel
Collaborator: Shuqi Xu
Developed a toolbox of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Julia by creating a new modeling language (interaction) with MathProgBase to efficiently solve NMPC problems

12/2016 - 01/2017

Teaching


Title / Employer Duration

Topic: CSE 421 Introduction to Algorithms (Instructor: Shayan Oveis Gharan)
Grading tasks/ Office hours (basics of Theoretical CS)

03/2022 - 06/2022

Topic: Design circuits with an operational amplifier
(Same as below)

04/2018 - 08/2018

Topic: CSE 482 Capstone Software Design To Empower Underserved Populations (Instructor: Anat Caspi)
Support/Guide undergraduate students on design projects

01/2021 - 03/2021

Topic: Design circuits with an operational amplifier
(Same as below)

04/2018 - 08/2018

Topic: Design circuits with an operational amplifier
Taught undergraduate students how to design an integrator and NAND circuits with an operational amplifier and a transistor, in addition to how to use oscilloscopes, signal generators, etc.

04/2016 - 08/2016

Service

Peer-reviewer experience


Autonomous Robots (2022)
Transactions on Machine Learning Research, registered (2022)
International Conference on Machine Learning, registered (2022)
International Conference on Advanced Robotics (2021)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (2021)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2020)
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2020)
The International Federation of Automatic Control Conference ( 2020)
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2018, 2019, 2021)
IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2019)

Other research activities


External Researcher with Kyushu University (2021-)
Participant of JST CREST project JPMJCR1913 (2020-)
Advising STUDIO Inc. (2020-)
Member of the Union of Academic Student Employees & Postdocs at the UW (2020-)
Member of the Japanese Graduate Student Association in the United States (JGSAU) (2020-)