News & updates
News.
Papers, talks, travel, and lab life. New entries appear at the top. For the latest few, see also the home page.
2026
- Apr 2026 Presented two papers at ACM CHI 2026 in Barcelona — both received Honourable Mention Awards 🏆. SPIU paper · VLM personas paper
- Mar 2026 Two CHI 2026 papers accepted, both with Honourable Mention recognition.
- Mar 2026 New paper accepted at HCII 2026: Colored Shared Spaces (CSS): How Visual Design Transforms Pedestrian Experiences. Conference in July, Montréal.
2025
- Nov 2025 Presented at ACM VRST 2025 in Montréal — cross-cultural VR evaluation of the Smart Pole Interaction Unit across Japan and Norway. Paper
- Sep 2025 International Journal of Human–Computer Studies article on human vs. LLM perception of SPIU published. Paper
- Sep 2025 Attended CIV Summer School on Cooperative Interacting Vehicles in Blonay, Switzerland.
2024
- Dec 2024 Joined Tier IV as a part-time Autonomous Driving Engineer, contributing to the open-source Autoware Universe stack.
- Nov 2024 Presented at ICEA 2024 in Tokyo — Connected Shared Spaces: Expert Insights into the Impact of eHMI and SPIU. Paper
- Sep 2024 Presented at ACM AutoUI 2024 (Adjunct) at Stanford — Transforming Pedestrian and AV Interactions: A Think-Tank Study. Paper
- Aug 2024 Visiting researcher at NTNU Norway, Gjøvik — running the cross-cultural replication of the SPIU VR study.
2023
- Oct 2023 Started Ph.D. at The University of Tokyo, Creative Informatics — Fellowship for Creation of Intelligent World, advised by Prof. Manabu Tsukada.
- Oct 2023 Presented at IEEE WF-IoT 2023 in Aveiro — the foundational SPIU paper, Keep Calm and Cross. Paper
- Oct 2023 Journal paper published in Electronics — Fostering Fuzzy Logic in Enhancing Pedestrian Safety. Paper
- Jan – Jun 2023 Research intern at RIKEN, Tokyo — exploring tensor-based learning methods for pedestrian–AV interaction.
2022
- Jul – Sep 2022 Intern at ispace, Tokyo — spacecraft operations engineering, working with Grafana dashboards and capture-scheduling automation.
- Jul 2022 Attended CIV Summer School on Cooperative Interacting Vehicles in Lake Tahoe, USA.
- May – Dec 2022 Team lead, M-BIC (Mobility Business Innovation Contest) — UTokyo × Doshisha, with industry mentors from Tier IV, Digital Agency, NeoCareer, and ASMobility.
2021
- Oct 2021 Started M.S. in Intelligent Information Processing at The University of Tokyo as a Todai Fellow.