Yoshiki Obinata
Project Assistant Professor at 東京大学
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolYoshiki Obinata is a robotics software engineer and Project Assistant Professor at the JSK Robotics Lab, University of Tokyo, with eight years of experience building perception and embedded systems for robots. He blends academic research (Ph.D. candidate in Mechano Informatics) with hands-on engineering at companies like Preferred Robotics and Mujin, and has served as a JSPS research fellow. His contributions to the widely used jsk_recognition ROS packages show practical expertise in perception pipelines, bounding-box handling, and refactoring for cleaner point-indexed code. Yoshiki also has experience integrating graphics toolchains into OpenCV and creating educational content for Python and machine learning, reflecting both deep technical skill and effective communication. Based in Tokyo, he focuses on software architecture for robotics applications and favors pragmatic, modular designs that scale from research prototypes to deployed systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoNagano Prefectural Nagano Senior High School
Japanese, English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
pcl10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ros10
jsr10
computer-vision9
python8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jsk-ros-pkg/jsk_recognition
May 2020 - Oct 2022
JSK perception ROS packages
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 reviews, 35 commits, 21 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Yoshiki primarily contributed to the `jsk_recognition` repository by adding and modifying ROS packages. Their work included fixing print statements, initial commits for a container occupancy detector, and modifications to bounding box handling. These changes involved header and source file modifications, and included updates to the readme file and sample data. Additionally, the user refactored code to use point indices and publish bounding box arrays.
ros-packagesrosperception
mqcmd196/jsk_common
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
common programs for jsk-ros-pkg
Contributions:11 pushes, 13 branches in 4 years 6 months
roboticsprogramsrospkg
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