Dr. Shoya Ishimaru is a Senior Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). His research interests are to invent new technologies augmenting abilities of human begins and investigating influences of the augmentations to human minds [publications, Google Scholar]. He defended his PhD in Engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern in 2019 (Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften mit auszeichnung summa cum laude). He has also been certificated as MITOU Super Creator by Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry in Japan.
Work Experience
| 2019-* | Senior Researcher, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) |
| 2016-2019 | Researcher, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) |
| 2016-2019 | Research Associate, University of Kaiserslautern |
Part-Time Job, Internship, and Service
| 2020-* | Mentor (PM), Mitou Junior |
| 2016-* | Visiting Researcher, Osaka Prefecture University |
| 2014-* | Researcher, Keio Media Design Research Institute |
| 2013-2015 | Engineering mentor, Life is Tech, Inc. |
| 2015 | Engineering Internship, Recruit Holdings Co. |
| 2014 | Engineering Internship, Livesense Inc. |
| 2014 | Engineering Internship, Cookpad Inc. |
| 2012-2013 | Software Engineer, Campus. Inc. |
| 2012 | Part-time Software Engineer, Paperboy&co. Inc |
| 2012 | Engineering Internship, Hatena Co. |
Education
| 2016-2019 | PhD in Engineering, University of Kaiserslautern |
| “Meta-Augmented Human: From Physical to Cognitive Towards Affective State Recognition” (Reviewed by Prof. Andreas Dengel, Prof. Paul Lukowicz, and Prof. Koichi Kise) | |
| 2014-2016 | Master of Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University |
| “Eyewear Computing for Cognitive Activity Recognition” (Reviewed by Prof. Koichi Kise, Prof. Tomoharu Nakashima, and Prof. Hisao Ishibuchi) | |
| 2010-2014 | Bachelor of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University |
| “Activity Recognition with Google Glass: Combining Head Motion and Eye Blink Frequency” (Reviewed by Prof. Koichi Kise and Prof. Kai Kunze) | |
| Visiting | University of La Rochelle (2015.09-10), University of Kaiserslautern (2013.10-2014.03) |
Teaching
| 2020.SS | Collaborative Intelligence (Co-lecturing with Prof. Dengel) |
| 2019.SS | Collaborative Intelligence (Co-lecturing with Prof. Dengel) |
Grants
| 2017-2019 | Co-Investigator, JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) |
| 2017-2019 | Representative, JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) |
| 2015 | Creator, IPA MITOU Exploratory IT Human Resources Project |
Organizing
| 2020.03 | Program Co-Chair for Augmented Humans 2020 |
| 2019.09 | Co-Organizer for EyeWild 2019 |
| 2019.03 | Program Committee for PerPersuasion 2019 |
| 2018.10 | Program Committee for READ 2018 |
| 2015.03 | Co-Organizer for Application Developer Festival 2015 |
| Reviewing | IMWUT, IJDAR, ISWC ‘20, CHI ‘20, MobileHCI ‘20, PerPersuasion ‘19, READ ‘18, HDI ‘17 |
Awards and Honorable Activities
Contact
| GitHub | @shoya140 |
| @shoya140 |