Summary
包 Naren is a researcher-founder who bridges cutting-edge AI research and real-world robotic deployment, with nine years of experience focused on autonomous perception, causal vision-language reasoning, and sim-to-real systems. Based at Nagoya and the University of Tokyo, he combines a PhD in Informatics with 10+ peer-reviewed publications (ITSC, IV, ICRA) and hands-on deployment of AI in Japanese industrial environments. As founder and CEO of AquaAge, he has shipped AI-powered products across computer vision, real estate, and Agentic AI, learning the practical failure modes that emerge when models leave the lab. Trilingual in Chinese, Japanese, and English, he brings cross-cultural fluency across three major Physical AI ecosystems and writes about the messy engineering needed to make intelligent systems reliable in the wild.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics at 名古屋大学