Ryotaro Kimura

Engineer

Interests

Human Computer Interaction and Intelligent Machines

Education

Apr 2022 - Ph.D. candidate, University of Tokyo, Japan

• Applied Computer Science

Apr 2019 - Mar 2022 M.A.S. , University of Tokyo, Japan

• Applied Computer Science

Apr 2015 - May 2019 B.A. , International Christian University, Japan

• College of Liberal Arts, Information Science Major, Economics Minor
• GPA: 3.86
• Listed Dean's List
• Thesis: Predicting the Realised Volatility of Cryptocurrency Time Series by Machine Learning Methods

Sep 2017 - May 2018 The University of Edinburgh, UK

• School of Informatics
• Exchange Program

Apr 2009 - May 2015 Shiba Junior & Senior High School, Japan

Industrial Experience

Apr 2022 - now Research Assistant, University of Tokyo

May 2021 - now Instructor, AI Academy Inc.

Jan 2024 - Mar 2024 Engineer, NOT A HOTEL Inc.

July 2022 - Aug 2023 Engineer, Eightis Inc.

Oct 2018 - June 2023 Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer (CRO), QuantumCore Inc.

QuantumCore is a technology company specialized in Reservoir Computing (RC).
RC is machine learning model for time series data, and it runs faster and more accurately than traditional deep learning models.
Worked in several projects.

June 2018 Research Internship, Digital Garage DG Lab

• Worked with Tabelog, a restaurant reviewing service
• Developed a system that classifies good-looking and bad-looking dish photos

Aug 2017 Engineer Internship, Line Corp

• Developed a chatbot that recognizes the emotional moments in a group conversation

Technical Skills

• Frontend: Angular, React, Svelte, SvelteKit
• Backend: Flask, FastAPI, MySQL, Redis
• Machine Learning: Numpy, Tensorflow2.x, Pytorch, OpenAI API
• Language: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Zig, C, C++, Octave, Java, SQL
• Hardware: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Jetson Nano, M5Stack
• Cloud: Azure, Cloudflare, AWS

Human Languages

• Japanese - Native
• English - IELTS 6.5 (2018)

Publications

Conference Proceedings

2019 Ryotaro Miura, Lukáš Pichl, Taisei Kaizoji
Artificial Neural Networks for Realized Volatility Prediction in Cryptocurrency Time Series
ISNN 2019: Advances in Neural Networks 2019

2019 Keisuke Shiro, Ryotaro Miura, Changyo Han and Jun Rekimoto
An Intuitive Interface for Digital Synthesizer by Pseudo-intention Learning
Audio Mostly 2019

Posters

2022 Ryotaro Kimura, Jun Rekimoto
Prometheus: A mobile telepresence system connecting the 1st person and 3rd person perspectives continuously
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022

Teaching Experience

Sept 2018 - Nov 2018 International Christian University
Teaching Assistant
ISC104 Foundation of Programming

2017 - 2018 Japan Society at The University of Edinburgh

• Teaching Assistant in Japanese class

June 2016 - Aug 2016 International Christian University
Culture Staff

• Introduced Japanese culture and Japanese to students learning Japanese

Awards and Honors

2019 ICU Excellence in Research Award

2016 ICU Dream Competition Silver Award

Talks

2013 TEDxYouth@Tokyo 2013

Volunteering

2017 - 2018 Visiting Student Abroad Representative

• Wrote blog posts and attended talk events to spread my experience in Edinburgh

2016 - 2018 Rakugo Performance

• Performed Japanese traditional comedy routine, Rakugo (落語)
• Founded International Christian University Rakugo Club and organized as the president
• Performed for nursing home residents, primary school students, and so on
• Performed at universities and public buildings in Edinburgh UK with the Japanese Consulate

2016 - 2018 Science Communication Activities

• Hands-on classes and experimental workshops
• Worked as a leader
• Taught science to primary school students