3-Min Self Introduction

From Egleston Engineering Seminar

Shutaro Aoyama §

🦁 Columbia ‘26 SEAS 🇯🇵 From Tokyo, Japan (not exactly)

My Interests

• 💻 Applications of Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction
• 🤔 Philosophy of Mind, Phenomenology
• Major: Computer Science (probably) & Minor: Philosophy (maybe?)

Past Projects/Researches

• ⏳ Thinking about concepts and applications of Virtual Time

  • Similar to having virtual space in VR, we could also have virtual time
    • → eliminate the limitations of physical time (linear speed, unstoppable)
  • To explain in a more complex way:
    • Creating an experience of multithreaded time virtually by artificially creating a sense of synchronization with others
  • Application:
    • Kineto: An online lecture platform that combines the benefits of both live and recorded lectures
      • Deceives students’ perception of time to create a virtual time experience
      • Research and development supervised by Prof. Inami from UTokyo
      • (Mitou-Program: Government provides funding and mentorship)
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    • Multithreaded voice communication (Work in progress)
      • Internship at Yoshida Lab at UTokyo
  • Considering applying Computer Science and philosophy of mind to explore this concept
  • Would love to have more discussions about this if you’re interested!

• Some other things I have done/doing:

  • 💰 Created and developed an economy through Minecraft Plug-in Development
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    • Order book of item trading market
  • Founded a Civic-tech Software Development Organization in High School
  • 🔬 Other researches/experiments on Computer Vision / Neural Networks / Virtual Reality
    • Saliency detection of lecture videos
    • Generation of ambigrams using GAN
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  • Web app development
    • Game of Tag on Wikipedia
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    • Internships
  • Shadow Play by Ultrasound Levitation Machine
    • ACM UIST Student-Innovation Challenge
  • Some studies/reports in Humanities
    • Ethics of Virtual Reality at UTokyo
    • Comparison of the development of Cybernetics in the US and Soviet Union (EE)

Hobbies

• Fog of World
  • An app that tracks every street/place I go
  • NYC
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  • Tokyo
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Career Path

• Still undecided
• Probably Ph.D. in Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction?

What I want from this class

• Get inspired by the researches of peers/faculty members
  • Research process, methods, focuses, etc.
• Get to know each other 🙌