Shu Nakamura
Ph.D. student, Computer Vision Lab, Kyoto University
About
I'm a third-year Ph.D. student at Kyoto University, working in the field of computer vision. My research focuses on human pose estimation and understanding human-object interactions, with an emphasis on developing methods that can operate in unconstrained, real-world environments.
I came to computer vision through a somewhat winding path. I majored in Electrical and Electronic Engineering as an undergraduate, but my interest in computing started earlier, through programming contests in high school and a deep learning study club in my first years of university â out of which came small side projects like a CNN-based onset detector for audio.
Along the way I spent eight months as an exchange student at the University of Waterloo, interned at a medical AI startup in Tokyo, and worked as a research assistant in the Kashima Lab on intrusion detection for automotive networks. I eventually joined the Nishino Lab for my undergraduate thesis, which is what led me into computer vision research full-time.
Outside of research, I'm a long-time Neovim user and share my configuration and plugin setup at an open repository swnakamura/dotfiles. I'm always happy to chat about Vim, software development, or just about anything else â feel free to reach out. If you're curious about what I'm reading or thinking about day to day, I also share my programming tips and research notes here.