Hiromu Taketsugu is a Ph.D. student at Toyota Technological Institute. He is currently adviced by Prof.Norimichi Ukita in Intelligent Information Media Lab. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Embodied AI, and Social Robotics. He develops human/scene-interactive and physics-aware systems/robots. He is a JSPS Research Fellow (DC1, 14% acceptance rate). He has served as the first author on papers accepted to top-tier international conferences such as CVPR and WACV. He is also a father of one daughter.
Ph.D., 2025-present
Toyota Technological Institute (Ukita Lab.)
M.Eng., 2023-2025
Toyota Technological Institute (Ukita Lab.)
B.Eng., 2019-2023
Toyota Technological Institute (Ukita Lab.)
I was a TA for over 3 years in a well-known machine learning course, GCI by UTokyo, which is attended by more than 30,000 people each semester.
I am addicted to creating cutting-edge applications, thinking about future societies and technologies, and understanding how human intelligence works through computer vision.
I actively try out new tools and devise ways to increase my productivity turough programming.
I develop mainly on Linux, e.g., Ubuntu.
I got a minor in mechanical engineering as an undergraduate, but I am still learning.
I have a friendly Maltese and a lovely Ragdoll-Siamese mix.
I set up vista, a community for mutual progress management, with my best friend in 2020 and still organizing it.
I love books that let me rethink daily life in a scientific way or give me time for philosophical reflection.
I love learning languages (duolingo streak is over 500), travelling to new places and connecting with new people. I mainly practice English and Vietnamese (my wife is Vietnamese).
Exercise is an awesome partner that energises me and boosts my productivity. I was captain of the Spartan Race Club in my university.