Hiroki Nakahara
Professor at Tokyo Artisan Intelligence Co., Ltd
Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolHiroki Nakahara is a professor and entrepreneur with nine years of focused experience in FPGA-based systems, custom computing machines, and deep neural network accelerators, currently holding faculty positions at Tohoku University and leading Tokyo Artisan Intelligence as CEO. His research and development span packet classification, regular-expression matching, radio telescope spectrometers, multi-valued-logic processors, and high-performance DNN computing, blending academic rigor with practical embedded and NIC engineering. He has progressed through academic roles at Tokyo Tech, Ehime, Kagoshima, and Kyutech, translating FPGA and decision-diagram research into working systems for both astronomy and networking. Known for hands-on hardware-software co-design, he pairs theoretical depth (Ph.D. in Computer Science) with entrepreneurial drive—and an unexpected personal brand as a devoted beer enthusiast.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at 九州工業大学 / Kyushu Institute of Technology
Japanese, English
Github Skills (10)
synthesizer9
fpga9
machine-learning6
python6
data-science5
neural-network5
deep-learning1
image-processing1
imagenet1
image-classification1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
HirokiNakahara/GUINNESS
Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
GUINNESS: A GUI-based binarized deep Neural NEtwork SyntheSizer toward an FPGA
Contributions:42 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
synthesizergui-baseddeep-neural-networkguineural-network
HirokiNakahara/FPGA_lecture
Jul 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:29 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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