Kazunori Akiyama
Research Affiliate
Westford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKazunori Akiyama is an Associate Professor and observational astrophysicist who builds computational imaging algorithms and software to probe black hole horizons using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). A long-standing member and former co-leader of the Event Horizon Telescope Imaging Working Group, he co-developed the SMILI imaging package instrumental to the first images of M87* and Sgr A*. He now serves as EHT Deputy Project Scientist and co-leads algorithm and inference efforts for the next-generation EHT while leading Japan’s contribution to the proposed space VLBI Black Hole Explorer. Trained at Hokkaido University and the University of Tokyo, his career includes research leadership roles at MIT Haystack and prestigious fellowships (JSPS, Jansky) and awards including the Breakthrough Prize and Young Astronomer recognitions. Known for blending hands-on software development with frontier observational campaigns, he uniquely bridges algorithm design, large international collaboration management, and space mission concept work.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at Hokkaido University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (41)
sparse10
astronomy9
uniform9
imaging9
modeling9
science9
dimensions9
transform8
julia8
astrodynamics8
radio-astronomy8
python8
astrology8
electrophysiology8
homebrew-formula8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
EHTJulia/StationaryRandomFields.jl
Jul 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 1 year 5 months
EHTJulia/EHTUtils.jl
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
A library of common tools (Unit coversions, constants, etc) for EHT Data / Image Analysis
Contributions:4 releases, 42 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
coversionspythonimage-analysisunitimage-data
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