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)