Hiroyasu Akada
PhD Student Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Switzerland
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Top SchoolHiroyasu Akada is a PhD student researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics with eight years of experience advancing multi-modal generative AI, egocentric 3D vision, and wearable-device-based 3D human pose estimation. His work combines research-grade synthetic-data pipelines (Unreal Engine, Blender) and novel glass- and headset-form-factor prototypes, and has led to four papers at top venues including CVPR, ICCV, and IJCV—one CVPR paper selected as a Highlight. He interned at Google Zurich working on controllable hand–object interaction models and previously contributed to synthetic-to-real domain adaptation at KAUST, bringing both industry and deep academic rigor. Comfortable bridging hardware, graphics, and ML, he focuses on producing reproducible, multimodal systems rather than isolated models. Outside academia he actively pursues investment strategies across stocks, bonds, crypto, and real estate, reflecting a quantitative mindset that complements his research. Based in Switzerland, he also studied at Keio and participated in Berkeley Haas entrepreneurship programming, underscoring a blend of technical depth and applied product thinking.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Max Planck SocietyBerkeley Haas Global Access Program, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Berkeley Haas Global Access Program, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessMaster of Science and Technology, Engineering, Master of Science and Technology, Engineering at Keio University
Chinese, Japanese, English
Github Skills (13)
scene6
synthetic6
mask4
cyclegan4
depth4
deep-learning3
pytorch3
computer-vision3
depth-estimation3
siggraph3
computer-graphics2
translation2
generative-adversarial-network1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hiroyasuakada/UnrealEgo
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:81 commits, 83 pushes, 15 comments in 5 months
hiroyasuakada/Mask-RCNN-Detectron2-for-Human-Extraction
Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:87 commits, 116 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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