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Education

  • Oct 2023 - Now
    Master of Science
    Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
    • Autonomy Technologies, Specialization in Robotics and Automation
  • Oct 2018 - Mar 2023
    Bachelor of Engineering
    Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
    • G30 program, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Specialization in Robotics and Control Systems

Experience

  • Nov 2024 - Now
    Semester Project Student
    Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany 🇩🇪
    • Chair of Automatic Control
    • Developing an intuitive interface for Spot legged robot using open-source vision-language-audio models.
  • JUL 2023 - Sep 2023
    Research Intern
    Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany 🇩🇪
    • Autonomous Learning group under the supervision of Prof.Georg Martius
    • I worked on bringing intrinsically motivated model-based RL algorithms to real robots, particularly, TriFinger robot platform
  • SEP 2022 - APR 2023
    Robotics Software Engineer Intern
    AKA Intelligence, Seoul, South Korea 🇰🇷
    • I developed ROS-based data collection and analytics system for mobile robot Jackal UGV in greenhous farms
  • OCT 2021 - MAR 2023
    Undergraduate Robotics Researcher
    Nagoya University, Japan 🇯🇵
    • Intelligent Robotics and Biomechatronics Laboratory under the supervision of Yaonan Zhu and Prof.Yasuhisa Hasegawa.
    • I worked on building force-position control based visuo-tactile haptic interface for Tiago++ arm using Digit tactile sensor and Omega5 haptic interface

Honors and Awards

  • 2018 - 2023
    Nagoya University Global 30 scholarship
    Merit-based scholarship for highly gifted international students
  • 2023
    MEXT scholarship
    Government of Japan scholarship granted for my studies in Japan

Academic Interests

  • Robotics
    • Mobile manipulation on legged systems and humanoids
    • Sim-to-real transfer
    • Tactile sensing in manipulation
  • Machine learning
    • Reinforcement learning
    • Imitation learning / Learning from demonstrations
    • Representation learning
    • Intrinsic-motivation / Sample efficient learning

Other Interests

  • Paddle, table tennis 🏓, badminton🏸, bouldering 🧗🏻‍♂️, movies🎥, board games🃏