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CV - Akihiro Kiuchi

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Professional Experience

Co-founder and CTO @ ENIAQ Inc.

Roll

May 2024 - now : Co-founder and CTO

  • Leading technical and product development.

Education

Doctor of Information and Communication Engineering

Apr 2023 - May 2024 (On leave since May 2024)
The User Interface Research Group at the University of Tokyo, advised by Prof. Takeo Igarashi.

TL;DR

New research area, international internship, three publications.
Moved to HCI/AR research, presented a demo at SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, and completed a 6-month research internship at Carnegie Mellon University, resulting in two conference papers (CHI 2025, ISMAR 2024).

Research Internship at the Augmented Perception Lab, Carnegie Mellon University*

Oct 2023 - Apr 2024

  • Researched AR remote communication and mobile AR interaction, resulting in publications at CHI 2025 and ISMAR 2024.

Publications

  • Akihiro Kiuchi, Jonathan Wieland, Takeo Igarashi, and David Lindlbauer. 2025. MiniMates: Miniature Avatars for AR Remote Meetings within Limited Physical Spaces. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25). ACM, Article 708, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3714328

  • Jonathan Wieland, Hyunsung Cho, Sebastian Hubenschmid, Akihiro Kiuchi, Harald Reiterer, and David Lindlbauer. 2024. Push2AR: Enhancing Mobile List Interactions Using Augmented Reality. In IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR '24). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR62088.2024.00082

  • Akihiro Kiuchi, Anran Qi, Eve Mingxiao Li, Dávid Maruscsák, Christian Sandor, and Takeo Igarashi. 2023. PerfectFit: Custom-Fit Garment Design in Augmented Reality. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 XR (SA XR '23). ACM, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610549.3614592

Master of Information and Communication Engineering

Apr 2021 - Mar 2023

TL;DR

OSS development and international programs.
Led the Zwin open-source project and participated in Google Summer of Code (see Projects & Internships).

GPA

3.80 / 4.00 [1]

Thesis

The design and implementation of a windowing system for multi-context immersive environments.

International conference

Akihiro Kiuchi, Taishi Eguchi, Jun Rekimoto, Manabu Tsukada, and Hiroshi Esaki. 2022. ZIGEN: A Windowing System Enabling Multitasking Among 3D and 2D Applications in Immersive Environments. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2022 Posters (SIGGRAPH '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 34, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532719.3543200

Bachelor of Information and Communication Engineering

Apr 2017 - Mar 2021

TL;DR

Coursework and industry internships.
Focused on academics while gaining hands-on experience through software engineering internships (see Projects & Internships).

GPA

3.74 / 4.00 [2]

Thesis

Development of testbeds adapted to diverse environments for investigation of LANs in distant locations.

Projects & Internships

Zwin: XR Windowing System

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Launched Zwin, an OSS project to realize a windowing system in XR.

Roll

Jun 2021 - 2024 : Technical Lead / Project Lead

  • Leading the technical part of the project, designing the overall code architecture, assigning development tasks, onboarding new members, forming a development culture and ensuring code quality through code reviews, and resolving technical issues.

  • Leading the OSS project, presenting the project vision, facilitating regular meetings, setting milestones, building a team, networking, and presenting externally.

  • Adopted as one of 8 groups for a government-funded 8-month development program (2022, Mitou Advanced Program).

  • Adopted as one of 23 groups for a government-funded 9-month development program (2021, Mitou Program), and awarded the title of honor "Super Creator" for outstanding progress during the program.

Skils

C / C++ / Meson / CMake / OpenGL / OpenXR / Wayland / Windowing System / gRPC

Talks

Jenkins Remoting Monitoring (Google Summer of Code)

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Roll

Jun 2021 - Sep 2021 : Google Summer of Code student contributor

  • Selected as one of 1292 participants out of 6991 applications worldwide for a 10-week OSS development program and completed the program (Google Summer of Code).

  • Developed and released a Jenkins plugin as a maintainer to collect and send telemetry from the Jenkins remoting module using OpenTelemetry.

  • Collected and reviewed 42 technical issues and 28 user voices on the remoting system to identify common issues by examining JIRA tickets from the past two years and conducting a user survey.

Skils

Java / Maven / OpenTelemetry / Jenkins

Talks

Backend Engineer Internship @ Cookpad Inc.

Roll

May 2019 - Nov 2020 : Student internship

  • Improved the efficiency of operators and developers by developing tools for them.

  • Reduced the time to build a Docker image from approximately 15 minutes to 7.5 minutes at best by optimizing the build process.

Skills

Ruby on Rails / Docker / MySQL / Typescript / React

Frontend Engineer Internship @ Arithmer Inc.

Roll

Apr 2018 - Apr 2019 : Part-time developer

  • Introduced React to the company and held a study session.

Skills

Vanilla JS / Typescript / React

1. Calculated according to Fulbright Japan criteria, as my university does not provide an official GPA
2. Calculated according to Fulbright Japan criteria, as my university does not provide an official GPA