Yasutaka Furukawa
Principal Scientist at Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolYasutaka Furukawa is a Principal Scientist at Wayve and an associate professor of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University, blending industry-leading research with hands-on product development in autonomous driving and 3D vision. With a Ph.D. from UIUC and a career that spans Google’s 3D imaging team, postdoctoral work with Seitz and Curless, and faculty roles at Washington University, he has a rare track record of moving ideas from lab to production. His work has earned top honors including the PAMI Longuet-Higgins Prize, NSF CAREER, and multiple Google Faculty Research Awards, signaling long-term impact in computer vision. He is comfortable navigating both academic mentorship and startup timelines, having interned at Industrial Light & Magic and collaborated with leaders like Rick Szeliski. Based in Burnaby, BC, he brings 11 years of professional experience synthesizing classic geometry and modern learning approaches to real-world perception problems. An interesting thread through his career is sustained success at translating foundational research into practical systems used in industry.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoPh.D, Computer Science, Ph.D, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Japanese, EnglishGithub contributions (5)
yasu-furukawa/2015_structured_indoor_modeling
Dec 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:611 commits, 417 pushes in 1 year 7 months
furukawa00000/foundations_and_trends_mvs
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:69 pushes in 4 months
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