Kei Ota
Head Of AI And Robotics at RIKEN
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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Top SchoolKei Ota is Head of AI and Robotics with a decade of experience bridging academic research and industrial R&D in robotics and reinforcement learning. Based in Kanagawa, Japan, he leads AIRoA’s research efforts while holding a visiting researcher role at RIKEN, focusing on contact-rich manipulation, tele-operation, and autonomous control for real-world robots. His background includes senior research roles at Mitsubishi Electric and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Tokyo Institute of Technology, reflecting deep expertise in both algorithmic RL and hardware-integrated systems. Earlier work as a satellite systems engineer gives him a rare systems-level perspective on robustness and real-world deployment. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher who prioritizes transferring lab advances into operational robotics.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japanese, English
Github Skills (68)
deep-reinforcement-learning10
reinforcement-learning10
tensorflow10
imitation-learning10
robotics8
robot8
openai-gym7
mujoco7
dynamics7
physics7
simulation7
deterministic7
simulator6
robotics-simulation6
robot-simulator6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
keiohta/keiohta.github.io
Nov 2019 - Jul 2024
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:42 pushes in 4 years 8 months
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keiohta/deep-lab
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:124 pushes, 14 branches, 2 tags in 6 months
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