Takehiko Terada is a serial founder and CEO based in the Greater Tokyo Area, combining six years of hands-on software and startup leadership across multiple ventures including Vault Inc., Motion Portrait, bitcraft, and ailia Inc. He brings a rare blend of executive strategy and technical depth, co-founding ailia to commercialize AI tooling while personally contributing to open-source model integration and computer-vision work such as the ailia-models repository. His engineering contributions focus on pragmatic model improvements—dependency cleanups, type fixes, and feature integrations for face detection and age-gender recognition—showing he still ships code alongside strategy. As an angel investor and executive chairman, he connects product vision, developer ecosystems, and commercialization pathways in Japan’s AI and imaging sectors.
The collection of pre-trained, state-of-the-art AI models for ailia SDK
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:74 commits, 1 PR, 121 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Takehiko primarily contributes to the ailia-models repository by modifying and integrating various AI models. Their work includes removing unnecessary dependencies, adding features like alpha value manipulation, fixing type errors, and addressing model download issues. Additionally, the user is involved in integrating face detection and age-gender recognition models, demonstrating a focus on computer vision and model integration within the ailia framework.
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
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Takehiko Terada - CEO, Angel Investor at ailia Inc.