Eric Nichols
Principal Scientist at Honda Research Institute Japan Co. Ltd.
Wako, Japan
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Top SchoolEric Nichols is a Principal Scientist with 14 years of research and applied robotics experience, currently leading intelligent-robotics work at Honda Research Institute Japan. He progressed through researcher and senior scientist roles at Honda after postdoctoral and research positions at Tohoku University and Nara Institute of Science and Technology, combining deep academic training (Doctor of Engineering in Information Science) with hands-on system building. His background bridges US and Japan—BS degrees in Computer Science and Japanese from University of Maryland and exchange study at Keio—enabling cross-cultural collaboration on human-robot interaction and autonomy. Known for “playing with robots for a living,” he focuses on making embodied systems smarter and more practical for real-world deployment.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student, Japanese, Natural Language Processing, Exchange Student, Japanese, Natural Language Processing at Keio UniversityThe University of Maryland, College ParkDoctor of Engineering, Information Science, Doctor of Engineering, Information Science at 奈良先端科学技術大学院大学 / Nara Institute of Science and Technology
English, Japanese
Github Skills (5)
scale4
resource-management2
sbt2
javascript2
scala1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
underspecified/text-generation-webui
May 2023 - Jun 2024
A gradio web UI for running Large Language Models like LLaMA, llama.cpp, GPT-J, Pythia, OPT, and GALACTICA.
Contributions:24 pushes in 1 year
underspecified/bscorpus
Nov 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:48 commits in 7 days
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