Summary
Takashi Ohta is a professor and Chair of the Graduate Program of Media Science at Tokyo University of Technology with over three decades of research experience spanning parallel scientific computing to interactive media and multi-display systems. He leads work at the intersection of ambient computing, visualization and user experience, designing interfaces that integrate digital information seamlessly into everyday environments. His background includes industry research at IBM Japan and advisory work for Samsung Electronics, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and practical product insight. Trained in physics and aeronautics (Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo, MS/BS from Keio), he brings deep computational roots to novel HCI challenges and is noted for evolving lab-scale parallel computation methods into user-facing interactive systems.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Master of Science (MS), Physics, Master of Science (MS), Physics at Keio University
Japanese, English, French