Experience

2025—Present

Software Engineer Intern · HowTelevision Inc.

Development of mond, an anonymous Q&A platform used by 10 million people monthly.

2025—Present

Software Engineer Intern · Livetoon Inc.

Development of kaiwa, a one-to-one voice and text conversation app for AI characters, and Tatara, a platform for creating AI characters by giving original 3D models a voice, personality, and role.

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2023—2024

Software Engineer Intern · Techpit Inc.

Development of SkillDB, a B2B skill management product that supports skill visualization, training, and workforce allocation for IT engineers.

2023—2024

Development Intern · Usagee Inc.

Research and development of a new product.

2022—2025

Programming Instructor · N Code Labo

Taught programming to middle and high school students.

Education

2026—Present

Shibaura Institute of Technology, Graduate School

Master’s program in Systems Science and Engineering.

2022—2026

Shibaura Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Information Systems, International Program.

2019—2022

Saitama Prefectural Koshigaya Sogo Technical High School

Information Technology.

Research & Projects

2025—Present

Telepresence Research

Developing and evaluating a robot-swarm telepresence system that represents the remote speaker’s embodiment through movement and projected imagery.

Laboratory website ↗

Shogo Kitada and Kazuki Takashima. “Evaluation of a Robot-Group Telepresence System Representing a Remote Speaker’s Embodiment.” IPSJ SIG HCI Technical Report, 2026-HCI-217, no. 6, pp. 1–7, 2026. [in Japanese]

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2022—Present

ShibaLab Interactive Art Collective

Served as the collective’s lead in 2023 and planned and developed works including The LED CUBE, You 'n' Flower, and Boombloom.

Participated in a collaborative project with Minato City Shibahama Elementary School and a projection-mapping project with Shibaura Institute of Technology Kashiwa High School. Also produced a promotional film introducing ShibaLab’s activities.

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Awards & Certifications

2024

GEEK CAMP Hackathons

DEVQUEST: LayerX Award; NGINLINK: Effort Award; Saikyo Anki: Excellence Award; TIPSBOX: Effort Award.

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2023

JPHACKS 2023

Developed Smart Home Maid, a mixed-reality smart home assistant. Selected as a finalist and received the JStream Award.

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2023

TOEIC IP · 855

2022

Student Award · Saitama Prefectural Board of Education

2022

Junior Meister Gold

Japan Association of Principals of Technical Senior High Schools.

2021

Honorable Mention · Saitama Technical High School Programming Contest

Proposed and developed Formuler, a mathematics-focused social network comprising an Android app and a LAMP backend using PHP and MySQL.

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2019—2021

CHaserOnline · Competitive Programming

National High School Programming Contest: 3rd place in the 40th competition and 5th place in the 41st.

Saitama Technical High School Programming Contest, Competitive Division: Grand Prize in the 29th and 30th competitions.

2019 national results ↗ 2021 national results ↗

2020

Fundamental Information Technology Engineer Examination

Japanese national qualification.

Skills

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Frontend / Backend / Infrastructure
  • TypeScript
  • React / Next.js
  • React Native
  • Unity / C#

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