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I received my Ph.D. in Engineering from Tohoku University and then worked on sewing automation at TransGP and The University of Hong Kong. Since November 2025 I have been an Assistant Professor at the Unprecedented-scale Data Analytics Center, Tohoku University. My field is robot vision and manipulation, and I care about taking methods all the way to a working robot system.

Appointments

2025.11 –

Assistant Professor, Kagami Laboratory, Unprecedented-scale Data Analytics Center, Tohoku UniversityAlso affiliated with the Graduate School of Information Sciences

2023.04 – 2025.10

Research Officer, TransGP, Hong Kong

2022.04 – 2025.10

Visiting Research Associate, The University of Hong KongConcurrent with TransGP

2022.04 – 2023.03

Postdoctoral Fellow, TransGP, Hong Kong

2021.04 – 2022.03

JSPS Research Fellow (DC2)

Education

2022.03

Ph.D. in Engineering, Tohoku UniversityObject Positioning Using Convolutional Neural Networks

2019.03

M.Eng., Tohoku UniversityImage-Jacobian-Less Visual Servoing

2017.03

B.Eng., Nagoya Institute of TechnologyDirect synthesis of ZnO nanorods on graphene

Awards

2025

ICMA Best Conference Paper AwardCoauthored paper “Fabric Flattening and Alignment System Using Real-Time Mesh-Based State Estimation and Visual Servoing”

2024

iCAN Gold Medal, Organizer’s Choice, ICO Award of ExcellenceSmart Fixture-free 2D Sewing System with Automatic Fabric Alignment

2024

Silver Medal, Geneva International Exhibition of InventionsIntelligent 2D Sewing System without Fixation with Automatic Fabric Alignment

2020

Excellent Presentation Encouragement Award, SICE Tohoku ChapterCNN-based visual feedback control for positioning a grasped object (in Japanese)

2017

Best Oral Presentation Award, NANO-SciTechThe effect of annealing graphene in O2 and N2 flow

Grants (PI)

2026 – 2028

Telecommunications Advancement Foundation research grantGenerative models and imitation learning for precise deformable object manipulation

2026 – 2028

NSK Foundation for the Advancement of Mechatronics research grantMesh-based shape estimation and visual feedback control for precise deformable object manipulation

2021 – 2022

JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (21J11176)Manipulation of objects that deform under mechanical boundary conditions

Contact

E-mail: fuyuki.tokuda@gmail.com
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