Summary
Feiran Li is a Senior Research Scientist based in Tokyo with 8 years of experience specializing in computational photography and 3D geometric vision, now focusing on data-centric AI that tightly integrates sensor physics with robust real-time pipelines. At SonyAI he progressed from intern to senior scientist, delivering both machine-centric AI-ISP solutions for perception and human-centric image/video enhancement across multimodal sensing. His background spans industry research internships in dual-pixel sensors, point-cloud analysis, and vision-guided robot manipulation, giving him a practical edge in bridging lab innovations to product-ready systems. Holding a PhD from Osaka University and an earlier robotics master's, he combines deep academic rigor with hands-on experimentation in raw image processing and embedded perception. Colleagues describe him as someone who thinks like a physicist and ships like an engineer—tuning algorithms with an intimate understanding of how sensors actually behave.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Science (Robotics), Master's degree, Information Science (Robotics) at Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science/Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science/Studies at Osaka University
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at East China University of Science and Technology
Chinese, English, Japanese