Kota Hara
Visiting Associate Professor
Greater Tokyo Area Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolKota Hara is a visiting associate professor and founder-CEO who blends 12 years of applied research and product engineering to bring AI-driven operational solutions to the waste management sector through Borzoi AI. He previously spent seven years at Apple as a senior machine learning researcher and computer vision engineer, contributing to Apple Maps, Look Around, RoomPlan and HD mapping efforts. Kota holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland and combines academic rigor with product delivery experience across ML, computer vision, and combinatorial optimization. Based in the Greater Tokyo Area, he has a rare mix of global corporate R&D and hands-on startup leadership, taking research prototypes into production. An early-career background in surveillance and e-commerce vision research informs his pragmatic approach to robust, scalable perception systems.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Maryland - A. James Clark School of EngineeringMS in Eng, Integrated Design Engineering, MS in Eng, Integrated Design Engineering at Keio University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (16)
segment6
scatter5
machine-learning5
deep-learning4
ios3
pytorch3
faster-rcnn3
scrollable3
autolayout2
uicollectionview2
android2
custom-view2
uikit2
cell2
uipageviewcontroller2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
swamiviv/CMSC828T-project
Feb 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 2 months
kotahara/fast-rcnn
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
deep-learningr-cnnmachine-learningcnn
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