About me

I'm a research engineer at Zozo Next, working on machine learning applications, with a focus on image and natural language data.

I'm also the android developer of Yomiwa and HanYou, two applications providing many useful features for Japanese and Chinese language learners (links below).

I got my ph.d. in computer science at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, under the supervision of CUTURI Marco and YAMAMOTO Akihiro.

My research interests include

  • machine learning,
  • optimal transport,
  • dictionary learning and NMF,
  • dimensionality reduction

Smartphone Applications

Yomiwa is a Japanese Optical Character Recognition / Dictionary app. Available at:

Available on the App Store Get it on Google Play

HanYou is a Chinese Optical Character Recognition / Dictionary app. Available at:

Available on the App Store Get it on Google Play

Contact info

Email address: firstname.lastname [at] gmail.com