Education

  • Cambridge University - BA in Computer Science
  • The Japan University of Economics - Suzuki Scholarship in Japanese

Current Work

Past projects

Jokeprint

A site to create cryptographic hashes of jokes to prove authorship. Created for a hackathon, from idea to published with PR video in 6 hours.

Video Splitter

A program to automatically edit videos based on scripts and audio content using forced alignment.

Correct App

A grammar correction app that uses NLP to find common English mistakes made by native speakers of Japanese. Poster Research Poster(PDF)

Not My Audience

A live interactive presentation where audience members vote on their own devices to influence a comedy show.

Podcast Practice App

A service that provides podcasts and scripts synced together as a study aid.

Teaching Tools

A tool to automatically generate teaching worksheets and output them to printable PDFS.

Events

Hack Fukuoka (formerly Hacker News Fukuoka)

Long running English language tech event in Fukuoka that provides a chance for the community to interact, present their work and learn about new opportunities.

CS In English

A bilingual computer science event for kids. Basic unplugged computer science activities were combined with a live-link between Seattle and Fukuoka to motivate the use of English and Japanese.

Fusion

A bilingual course in web development using Ruby on Rails

Previous Work

  • Software Engineer at Team Aibod, Fukuoka
  • Software Engineer at Welmo, Fukuoka
  • Software Engineer at Qurate, Fukuoka
  • Translator for AsianBeat, Fukuoka
  • Intern at ITI Transcendata, Cambridge

Hobbies

  • Running - Mainly 5k distance
  • Piano
  • Micro Mysteries - Simple mystery stories in the style of Encyclopaedia Brown