Summary
Yuka Ariki is a researcher and Ph.D. engineer with 11 years of experience bridging academic and industrial robotics research, currently at Sony after faculty and postdoctoral roles at Ritsumeikan University, NII, AIST and international visits. She specializes in imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and deep learning for robotics, with hands-on skills in C++, Python, CAD, OS X/Linux and pattern recognition. Proficient with major deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, Chainer, NNabla, TensorFlow), she has contributed to robot grasping simulation, low-dimensional controller design and applied DNNs to real-world robotic problems. Her profile reflects a blend of rigorous publication record (Google Scholar, DBLP) and practical system-building experience, with an eye for designing tools and datasets that accelerate embodied AI research.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Engineering, Ph.D, Engineering at Nara Institute of Science and Technology