Summary
Takaaki Tagawa is a seasoned engineering leader with 10 years of experience building and managing ML and computer vision infrastructure for automotive and space systems. Currently a principal researcher at JAXA and concurrently contributing to AI applications at BRAINVERSE, he bridges research-grade algorithms and production Edge AI/MLOps deployments. His background spans anomaly detection, SLAM, autonomous driving stacks, and data annotation ops, earned through roles at Woven Planet, Toyota Research Institute, and Toyota Central R&D. Known for hands-on tech leadership, he has led cross-functional teams to operationalize ML on vehicle and satellite platforms. He combines aerospace training from the University of Tokyo with pragmatic software engineering, enabling robust ML systems in constrained, safety-critical environments. Outside core duties he gravitates toward integrating AIOps and LLM capabilities into traditional vision pipelines to accelerate maintenance and anomaly triage.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering, Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science and Technology, General, Master of Engineering, Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science and Technology, General at University of Tokyo
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering at Waseda University
English, Japanese