Ko Sugawara
Research Scientist at LPIXEL Inc.
Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolKo Sugawara is a research scientist and AI engineer based in Japan with eight years of experience at the intersection of computational biology and machine learning. Currently at RIKEN BDR and also working with LPIXEL, he focuses on developing algorithms for cell tracking and bioimage analysis, translating academic postdoc rigor from Institut de génomique fonctionnelle de Lyon into production-ready tools. He holds a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from The University of Tokyo and has international research exposure from EPFL, reflecting a strong foundation in life sciences and quantitative methods. Known for bridging deep domain knowledge with practical engineering, he brings both experimental insight and software craftsmanship to imaging-driven AI problems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoResearch Intern, Life Sciences, Research Intern, Life Sciences at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Japanese, English, French
Github Skills (33)
python10
image-processing10
image10
tracking-algorithm10
computer-vision10
java9
microscopy9
editing9
visual-analytics8
convex8
large-scale7
scale7
object-detection6
image-analysis6
imagej6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
elephant-track/elephant-server
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
A server implementation of ELEPHANT
Contributions:31 releases, 233 commits, 47 PRs in 1 year 10 months
elephant
ksugar/stardist
Aug 2019 - Jan 2024
StarDist - Object Detection with Star-convex Shapes
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 4 years 6 months
pytorchconvexobject-detectionstardist
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