Satoshi Kataoka
Co-Founder And CTO at Vanka AI
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolSatoshi Kataoka is a seasoned engineer and entrepreneur with 16 years of experience building ML-driven robotics and mobile systems, now co-founder and CTO of Vanka AI in Palo Alto. He led high-impact initiatives at Google Brain—founding the FluxWorks robotics framework and co-proposing a moonshot bi-manual robotics project—and previously built TensorFlow mobile and Android core features including spell-checking and typing suggestion algorithms. As founder/CEO of Fluxoid AI he commercialized high-precision AI for mission-critical robotics before its acquisition, and he later built a domain-specific LLM for building automation as Head of Machine Learning at Simple Things. He combines deep research credentials (visiting researcher in Medical Informatics at The University of Tokyo) with hands-on product engineering and a history of shipping low-latency control systems and mobile apps. An active individual contributor in open-source Android work, his AOSP commits include a sample spell checker service and client that reflect practical systems integration skills. He is known for bridging academic research and production-grade robotics/ML systems, often focusing on real-time, safety-critical performance.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
c-language10
android-sdk10
java10
javas10
sys10
android10
cprogramming-language10
operating-system10
graphics-programming9
opengl9
uid8
front-end-development8
ui-design8
object-detection6
google-cloud-ml-engine6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aosp-mirror/platform_development
Oct 2011 - Apr 2012
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:11 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Satoshi primarily contributed to the development of a sample spell checker service and a corresponding client application within the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The commits demonstrate the creation of core service components, settings activities, and fragments for the spell checker. They also created a client application that utilizes the spell checker service, showcasing the ability to integrate and test the service's functionalities, including both standard and sentence-level spell checking capabilities.
satok16/btboost
Jul 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:201 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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