Profile
Name
Takefumi Hiraki, Ph.D.
Affiliation
Associate Professor, Institute of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Director, Cluster Metaverse Lab (Joint-appointment)
Contact
hiraki -at- slis.tsukuba.ac.jp
t.hiraki -at- cluster.mu
Professional Experience
- 2025/04 - now
Associate Professor
University of Tsukuba, Institute of Library, Information and Media Science / Principal Investigator (Metaverse Media Lab) - 2026/02 - now
Director
Cluster Metaverse Lab - 2023/04 - 2026/01
Senior Research Scientist
Cluster Metaverse Lab - 2024/04 - 2025/03
Collaborative Associate Professor
The University of Electro-Communications, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering - 2021/03 - 2025/03
Assistant Professor
University of Tsukuba, Institute of Library, Information and Media Science - 2019/05 - 2025/03
Visiting Researcher
The University of Tokyo (Kawahara Lab.) - 2019/04 - 2021/02
JSPS Research Fellow (PD)
The University of Osaka, Pattern Measurement Group
Academic Experience
- 2016/04 - 2019/03
Doctoral Course
The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology (Naemura Lab.) - 2014/04 - 2016/03
Master Course
The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies - 2012/04 - 2014/03
Bachelor Course (Major)
Department of Information and Communication Engineering, The University of Tokyo - 2010/04 - 2012/03
College of Arts and Sciences
The University of Tokyo
Academic Efforts
Organizing Committee
- ACM VRST 2026 — Program Chair
- Augmented Humans 2026 — Publications Chair
- IEEE VR 2025 — Publicity Chair
- ACM VRST 2022 — Communications Chair / Poster-Demo Chair / Local Arrangement-Online Chair
- IEEE VR 2022 — Publicity Chair
- ACM VRST 2021 — Local Arrangement-Online Chair / Student Volunteer Chair
Program Committee
- IEEE VR(2025, 2026)
- IEEE ISMAR(2024-2026)
- ACM VRST(2022-2026)
- ACM ISS (2025, 2026)
- ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Emerging Technologies(2024-2026)
- ACM SUI(2023, 2024)
Society
- ACM
- IEEE
Review
- IEEE TVCG(2024)
- ACM PACMHCI (2025)
- ACM IMWUT(2019, 2021)
- IEEE Access(2024)
- Journal of SID(2020)
- IEEE VR(2024-2026)
- IEEE ISMAR(2024)
- ACM VRST(2019, 2021-2025)
- ACM SIGGRAPH Asia(2020, 2021, 2023-2025)
- ACM CHI(2021)
- ACM UIST(2020)
- ACM SUI(2023, 2024)
- ACM TEI(2021, 2022)
- SICE(2021)