Group Leader, Edge AI HW SW Co-design at The University of Tokyo
Greater Tokyo Area Japan
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Shintaro Shiba is a Group Leader and Project Lecturer specializing in HW/SW co-design for event-driven Edge AI, combining a decade of industry and academic experience across University of Tokyo, Keio, and Woven by Toyota. He holds a PhD jointly from Keio University and Technische Universität Berlin and has led R&D teams that delivered real-world Vision AI products for automotive applications. His research contributions in event-based vision span optical flow, depth, denoising, and computational imaging, earning recognition within the event-camera community and awards such as the Ikushi Prize. Equally comfortable in hardware-aware algorithm design and practical ML deployment, he recruits students and postdocs for projects in event-based computer vision, processor co-design, and robotics. Beyond research, he has improved usability of popular ML tooling through documentation contributions to Chainer, and outside of work he plays jazz saxophone and dances.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Technische Universität Berlin
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Keio University
A flexible framework of neural networks for deep learning
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Documentation Specialist
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 13 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Shintaro primarily focused on enhancing the documentation for the Chainer library. Their contributions involved adding examples, correcting typos, and improving the clarity and formatting of function documentation, particularly for the `linear`, `sigmoid`, `relu`, `clipped_relu`, `crelu`, `elu`, `tanh`, `broadcast`, `broadcast_to`, and `concat` functions. They also updated the documentation to adhere to PEP8 style guidelines and to improve the shape notations. These changes collectively improved the usability and understanding of the Chainer library.
Contributions:29 commits, 4 PRs, 21 pushes in 6 months
blockchainchainer
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