Yoshitaka Ushiku, PhD profile page

Yoshitaka Ushiku is a Principal Investigator at OMRON SINIC X and Chief Research Officer at Ridge-i. He received his B.E., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 2009, 2011, and 2014, respectively. In 2014, he joined NTT CS Labs, Japan, where he was involved in research on image recognition. From 2016 to 2018, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. Since 2022, he is also the managing partner of Nine Bulls, LLC. Currently, he is Vice President for Research at OMRON SINIC X and Chief Executive Officer at NexaScience, Inc. since 2024. His research interests lie in cross-media understanding through machine learning, mainly for computer vision and natural language processing, and AI for Science. He received ACM Mutlimedia Grand Challenge Special Prize in 2011, ACM Multimedia Open Source Software Competition Honorable Mention in 2017, NVIDIA Pioneering Research Awards in 2017 and 2018, and NISTEP Nice Step Researcher in 2023.