Summary
Atsushi Koike is an assistant professor and researcher with over a decade of industry and academic experience in mobile systems, navigation, and GPU-based parallel computing. He began his career developing 3G telecommunications and voice-processing prototypes at Hitachi, then designed route-search and guidance engines at NAVITIME before transitioning to GPU computing research at the National Institute of Informatics. Now in academia at Tohoku University and completing a Ph.D. in Informatics, he focuses on combinatorial optimization and high-performance parallel algorithms, with 16 papers and 18 patents to his name. Beyond research, he ships practical software—evident in his history of mobile app development—and maintains an active technical presence through talks and a technical blog. He’s also a marathon runner, suggesting the same endurance and discipline he applies to long-term research challenges.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Informatics at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
Master, Information Science, Master, Information Science at Tohoku University