Kyoichi Sugahara
Software Developer at TIER IV
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolKyoichi Sugahara is a software developer based in Tokyo with 8 years of experience specializing in autonomous driving systems. Currently at TIER IV, he contributes to core back-end features for the Autoware.Universe project, implementing planning simulator components like delay models for velocity and steering and improving lanelet2-based planning and perception integrations. His background spans R&D and engineering roles at DENSO, IDIADA and European research institutes, blending automotive systems expertise with hands-on software development. Kyoichi holds advanced engineering degrees including doctoral work in systems science, which informs his methodical approach to safety-critical software. He is comfortable refactoring legacy code and adding practical guards and message integrations—skills that help move research prototypes toward robust production features.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Systems Science and Theory, Doctor of Philosophy, Systems Science and Theory at Kyoto UniversityBachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, 3.09, Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, 3.09 at Hokkaido University
Spanish, English, Japanese
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
planning10
missionplanner10
cprogramming-language10
ros10
autonomous-driving10
simulator9
simulations9
simulation9
python4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
autowarefoundation/autoware_universe
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:849 reviews, 10 commits, 450 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kyoichi primarily contributes to the Autoware.Universe repository, focused on autonomous driving software. Their contributions involve implementing features for the simple planning simulator, including delay models for velocity and steering. Additionally, the user is involved in modifying and maintaining existing code, such as adding guards, deleting comments, and refactoring code related to lanelet2 extension, behavior path planning, and lane departure checking. They have also added and modified code for planning and perception messages and made changes to the ego's position source.
autowareros23d-mapcalibrationros
kyoichi-sugahara/autoware.universe
Jun 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 1694 pushes, 624 branches in 2 years 10 months
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