CV

Education

• April 2023 – Present: Nara Medical University, School of Medicine (GPA 4.0)
• January 2025 – March 2025: Waseda University, Asahi Lab, Research Clerkship
• April 2020 – March 2022: Heidelberg University, Faculty of Philosophy, Transcultural Studies (Supervisor: Monica Juneja) (GPA 4.0)
• April 2020 – March 2022: Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Joint Degree Master of Arts in Transcultural Studies (Supervisor: Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano) (GPA 4.0)
• April 2017 – March 2020: University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters, Department of Language and Culture, French Literature (Supervisor: Kan Nozaki) (GPA 3.7)
• August 2018 – June 2019: Stockholm University, Cinema Studies
• January 2018 – March 2018: University of Otago, Language Program
• April 2015 – March 2017: University of Tokyo, College of Arts and Sciences, Science Program 2 (GPA 3.2)

Work experience

• April 2026 – Present: Matsuo Institute, Inc. (Lecturer / Teaching Assistant)
• April 2026 – Present: Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Research Intern)
• February 2026 – Present: Matsuo Institute, Inc. (Data Scientist)
• July 2025 – Present: Nara Medical University, Department of Psychiatry (Research Assistant)
• April 2024 – Present: University of Tokyo, Matsuo Laboratory (Lecturer / Teaching Assistant)
• April 2024 – Present: Nagase Brothers Inc. (Data Scientist / Content Producer)
• April 2022 – April 2023: The Japan Foundation (Career Position)

Funding

• June 2026 – March 2027: Research grant provided by the HUMAI Program (350,000 yen)
• April 2026 – March 2027: Scholarship awarded by the G-7 Scholarship Foundation (960,000 yen)
• February 2026 – March 2027: Research grant provided by FOST (150,000 yen)
• August 2025 – March 2026: Research grant provided by the HUMAI Program (280,000 yen)
• April 2025 – March 2029: Scholarship awarded by the Vertex Green Foundation for human resource development (2,400,000 yen)
• January 2025 – March 2025: Scholarship awarded by Nara Medical University for research clerkship at Waseda University (300,000 yen)
• April 2020 – March 2022: Half-fee waiver of JASSO Scholarship for outstanding performance (1,000,000 yen)
• January 2021 – September 2021: Scholarship awarded by JASSO for overseas study (800,000 yen)
• August 2018 – June 2019: Scholarship awarded by ASEM-DUO for overseas study (5,000 EURO)
• August 2018 – June 2019: Scholarship awarded by JASSO for overseas study (800,000 yen)

Awards

• March 2024: Outstanding Completion Award at GCI 2023 Winter
• December 2023: Winner of the Competition 2 at GCI 2023 Winter
• August 2023: AI Award at MAP Hackathon

Languages

• Japanese (Native), English (Proficient), French (Advanced), German (Basic), Chinese (Basic)

Skills

• Python, SQL, Git/GitHub
• Data Analysis and Machine Learning (NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, scikit-learn)
• Deep Learning (PyTorch)
• Natural Language Processing and LLMs (Hugging Face, prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning)
• AI Agent (LangGraph)

Certifications

• EIKEN Test in Practical English Proficiency Grade 1（英検1級）
• IELTS Overall 7.0
• Diplôme d’Études en Langue Française Level B2（DELF B2）
• JDLA Deep Learning for ENGINEER（E資格）
• Fundamental Information Technology Engineer（基本情報技術者）
• Japan Statistical Society Certificate Grade 2（統計検定2級）
• Protection of Individual Information Person（個人情報保護士）

Publications

Transcultural New Waves: The Development of a Cinematic Approach to History

Arashi H. (2022, March). "Transcultural New Waves: The Development of a Cinematic Approach to History." [Master's thesis, submitted to Kyoto University and Heidelberg University].

Talks and presentations

An explainable LLM-based motivational interviewing training system for Japanese clinical education

November 11, 2026

Conference presentation at The 19th European Public Health Conference (EPH 2026), Bilbao, Spain

How Social Prescribing-Relevant Experiences Are Described by Autistic Individuals in Japan: A Realist Evaluation of Autobiographical Narratives

May 01, 2026

Conference presentation at The International Social Prescribing Conference 2026 (ISPC 2026),

How Experiences of Social Connectedness among Autistic Individuals in Japan May Correspond to Social Prescribing

March 02, 2026

Conference presentation at The 6th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Social Relations (JASR2026), Japan

Development and Evaluation of a Motivational Interviewing Training Tool Using Large Language Models

March 01, 2026

Talk at HUMAI Spring Camp 2026, Japan

An Attempt at Tagging Medical Texts Using Large Language Models: Corpus of National Medical Licensing Examination Questions

September 01, 2025

Poster at HUMAI Program Poster Session, Japan

Developing Educational Tools for Psychotherapy Using Large Language Models

June 01, 2025

Conference presentation at The 121st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, Japan

Transcultural Hiroshima: Hiroshima mon amour (1959) as a Franco-Japanese Film

February 01, 2022

Workshop presentation at The 2nd Four Universities' Graduate Workshop,

Projects

Multilingual Safety Benchmark Construction for Mental Health Applications (2026 – Present)

Enterprise Knowledge Platform with Knowledge Graph and Multimodal Retrieval (2026 – Present)

AI Agent System for Enterprise Sales Support (2026 – Present)

Automated Quality Assessment System for Business Proposals using VLM (2025 – Present)

Ontology Construction for Medical Text Structuring (2025 – Present)

AI-based Training Tool for Psychotherapy (2024 – Present)

Data Analysis Competition and Business Proposal Assignments Development (2024 – 2025)

Protein-Protein Interaction Exploration (2025)

Customer Retention and Clustering Models (2023 – 2024)

AI-enhanced Stress Detection App (2023 – 2024)