Shinpei Kato
Chairman Of The Board Of Directors at The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolShinpei Kato is a Tokyo-based deep tech leader and founder with 13 years of professional experience bridging academic research and industry in autonomous systems. As Founder of TIER IV and Chairman of The Autoware Foundation, he has steered open-source autonomy efforts from university labs to production-ready stacks while serving as an associate professor at The University of Tokyo. His background includes postdoctoral training at Carnegie Mellon and UC Santa Cruz and a Ph.D. in Engineering from Keio University, giving him rare credibility across robotics research, standards, and commercialization. Known for translating cutting-edge research into collaborative open-source ecosystems, he quietly shapes the infrastructure many autonomy projects now rely on.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Engineering, Ph.D., Engineering at Keio University
Github Skills (19)
robotics10
autonomous-vehicles10
ros10
autonomous-driving10
device-driver9
nvidia9
opencl8
maintenance8
gpgpu8
linux7
gpu7
cuda7
automation4
computer-vision2
3d-object-detection1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chisyliu/autoware-wiki
Dec 2015 - Apr 2019
Autoware wiki repository
Contributions:300 commits in 3 years 5 months
wikiautoware
shinpei0208/gdev
Jul 2012 - Oct 2014
Contributions:41 commits in 2 years 4 months
contact-usplanruntimegpgpuwish
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