CV

Latest curriculum vitae (English).

General information

Name	Takefumi HIRAKI
Label	Associate Professor, University of Tsukuba / Senior Research Scientist, Cluster Metaverse Lab
Email	hiraki@slis.tsukuba.ac.jp
Url	https://takefumihiraki.com
Summary	Research interests: Virtual Reality, Metaverse, Human-Computer Interaction, Robotics, high-speed projection, projection mapping, haptic interfaces, soft robotics, and brain-computer interfaces.

Work

2025.04 - Present

Japan
Associate Professor

University of Tsukuba

Institute of Library, Information and Media Science; formerly Assistant Professor (2021-03 to 2025-03). Principal Investigator (Metaverse Media Lab).
2023.04 - Present

Japan
Senior Research Scientist

Cluster, Inc. (Metaverse Lab)

Principal Investigator.
2022.04 - 2023.03

Austria
Visiting Professor

Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Appointments: 2022-04 to 2022-05, and 2023-02 to 2023-03.
2019.05 - 2025.03

Japan
Visiting Researcher

The University of Tokyo
2019.04 - 2021.02

Japan
Postdoc Researcher (JSPS Research Fellow PD)

Osaka University

Pattern Measurement Group (Led by Prof. Kosuke Sato).
2016.06 - 2019.12

China
Internship Student / Visiting Researcher

Microsoft Research Asia

Internship Student (2016-2017), Visiting Researcher (2019).
2016.04 - 2022.03

Japan
Research Assistant / Research Collaborator / Visiting Researcher

JST ERATO Kawahara Universal Information Network Project

Research Assistant (2016), Research Collaborator (2017-2019), Visiting Researcher (2019-2022).

Education

2016 - 2019
Ph.D.

The University of Tokyo

Information Science and Technology
2014 - 2016
Master

The University of Tokyo

Interdisciplinary Information Studies
2010 - 2014
Bachelor of Engineering

The University of Tokyo

Information and Communication Engineering

Awards

2020.09

Top-3 for Best Poster Award

EuroHaptics 2020
2019.08

SICE Measurement Division Best Paper Award

The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan
2019.03

Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Student Paper Award

The Promotion Foundation for Electrical Science and Engineering, Japan
2016.10

METI Innovative Technologies

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan

Interests

	Research Interests
	Virtual Reality
	Metaverse
	Human-Computer Interaction
	Robotics
	High-speed projection
	Projection mapping
	Haptic interfaces
	Soft robotics
	Brain-computer interfaces