Arata Jingu
Applied AI Engineer, Defense & Intelligence at HCI Lab, Saarland University
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolArata Jingu is an applied AI engineer with a decade of experience building AI-driven systems for defense, intelligence, and immersive computing. He holds a PhD in HCI from Saarland University with deep expertise in AR/VR, haptic sensing and rendering hardware, and human-AI collaboration for designing physical characteristics in XR scenes. At Sakana AI he applies that research to national defense applications, following a Google Research internship focused on AR and multimodal LLMs and a CHI paper–backed research stint at the University of Chicago. His background blends hands-on hardware prototyping, sensor fabrication, and large-scale software development, and he was recognized with a Google PhD Fellowship and Funai Overseas Scholarship. Based in Tokyo, he bridges rigorous academic research and production engineering to push multimodal interaction into real-world systems. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate haptic hardware insights into AI models that inform whole-scene physical behavior in XR.
9 years of coding experience
University of TokyoBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics at 東京大学Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics and Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes
Github Skills (49)
camera-api10
intel10
hardware10
payment-methods10
sdk10
realsense10
in-app-purchase10
computer-vision10
adjustment9
depth-camera8
depth-estimation8
stereo6
shadow6
bundle6
csharp5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ajingu/ShadowSkinning
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
[WIP]Automatic Shadow Skinning
Contributions:87 PRs, 76 pushes, 14 branches in 1 month
skinningwipshadow
ajingu/Quest
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
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