CV

Experience

AI Engineer - SyntheticGestalt, Tokyo, Japan

2025.02 - Present

  • Applied topological data analysis (TDA) on chemical space to build predictive models

Research Engineer - SyntheticGestalt, Tokyo, Japan

2020.06 - 2025.02

  • Built an internal system for running model inference at scale using Ray and RayDP
  • Built ADMET prediction models for National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition (NIBIOHN) and their service DruMAP
  • Built a competitive compound property prediction model for SIGNATE and won the 3rd place as a team
  • Built a declarative PyTorch model training framework using SageMaker
  • Built a video classification model supporting incremental class addition without performance degradation

Software Engineer - Freelance, Kyoto, Japan

2016.09 - 2020.06

  • Developed vision models for a video classification task
  • Deployed survailance systems using network cameras
  • Worked on tuning and configuring linux kernel for embedded devices
  • Worked for a startup developing mesh networking software for IoT devices

Software Engineer - ExaIntelligence, Kyoto, Japan

2016.04 - 2016.09

  • Built RC cars with cameras using Raspberry Pi
  • Built a car-driving simulation environment for RL algorithms

Chemical Engineer Intern - BASF, Dusseldorf, Germany

2014.07 - 2014.09

  • Optimized chemical processes by modeling and simulations

Summer Intern (iOS app development) - CyberAgent, Tokyo, Japan

2013.08 - 2013.09

  • Developed an iOS fitness tracker app

Education

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Dropout), Chemical Engineering

2016.04 - 2016.09, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Collaborative Research Project, Chemical Engineering

2015.06 - 2015.09, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Master of Engineering - MEng, Chemical Engineering

2014.04 - 2016.03, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Bachelor of Engineering - BEng, Engineering

2010.04 - 2014.03, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Publications

Multiscale DSA simulations for efficient hotspot analysis

2014, SPIE Proceedings, Yoshihiro Hori, Kenji Yoshimoto, Takashi Taniguchi, Masahiro Ohshima