Kensho Hara
Senior Researcher at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Japan
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolKensho Hara is a senior researcher and machine learning engineer with nine years of experience in computer vision and video understanding, currently based at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He holds a Ph.D. in Informatics from Nagoya University and has progressed through postdoctoral and research roles to a senior researcher appointment, blending academic rigor with applied research. Kensho has contributed to popular open-source work on 3D ResNets for action recognition, building dataset tools and video-processing utilities that support large-scale benchmarks like ActivityNet and Kinetics. His profile reflects a strong focus on back-end systems for video datasets and reproducible research pipelines, with an emphasis on turning cutting-edge CV models into practical, usable tooling.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Informatics, Ph.D., Informatics at Nagoya University
Github Skills (6)
video-processing10
computer-vision10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
python10
datasets10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kenshohara/3D-ResNets-PyTorch
Sep 2017 - Jan 2021
3D ResNets for Action Recognition (CVPR 2018)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 423 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kensho's initial contribution involved setting up a new spatial transforms file, indicating an early development phase. Subsequent commits focused on adding functionality and features by creating the activitynet.py and kinetics.py files. Further work focused on the dataset and related tools by adding new utils to perform the video processing and labeling.
pytorchresnetsunsupervised-learningrecognitioncomputer-vision
kenshohara/kenshohara.github.io
Apr 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:26 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.