Silicon Valley, USA2026.09
🇺🇸 UTokyo Experiential Learning Program 2026
Toured the region through interviews we arranged ourselves, conducting group research on the theme "How can Japan innovate at Silicon Valley speed?"
Toshiie Shiomi塩見 利家
Department of Systems Innovation C, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (3rd year)
Expanding what individuals can do with AI.
About
About Me
I'm a third-year student in the Department of Systems Innovation, Faculty of Engineering, at the University of Tokyo. With lab assignment coming up, I'm interested in machine learning and networking / the Internet.
I love traveling and learning languages! 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇰🇷🇻🇳
I'm open to tutoring and interpreting work — feel free to reach out!
- From
- Toyama, Japan
- Based in
- Tokyo, Japan
- Hobbies
- Travel, Languages, Chinese restaurant hopping, GeoGuessr, Mahjong, Movies
- Languages
- Japanese (Native), English (Working toward native-level fluency), Chinese (Conversational), Korean (Can finally read Hangul 😄)
Career
Career
Education · 2024.4-2029.3
Department of Systems Innovation, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Coursework includes AI, TCP/IP, environmental engineering, and Chinese. Currently choosing a research lab.
Speaking · 2026/11/20-21
Upcoming presentation at the Tokyo Forum 2026 Youth Session
I will present on the decline of entry-level jobs due to AI and how vocational education needs to change.
Regional Revitalization Consulting · 2026.09
Student Consulting: Ritto City, Shiga Prefecture
Proposed tourism promotion that makes use of the historic streetscape along the old Tokaido road, including an on-site field visit.
Engineering
Software Engineer Intern
A small company
Developed web applications.
Community
Student Dormitory Self-Governance
As president of the residents' association, I ran the dorm's Instagram, gave the welcome speech for new residents, and planned Hongo and Yayoi campus tour routes for 15 groups.
Tourism
English Tour Guide
Guided English-language tours for international visitors in the Tsukiji area.
Tutoring
Private Tutor
I teach math, physics, English, and classical Japanese to junior high and high school students. In the 2025 academic year, I helped a student get into their first-choice university. Although I'm on the science track, Japanese is one of my strengths — I scored 90% on the national university entrance exam (Common Test) in high school.
Conference Presentation · 2022
JSBBA Junior Session (Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry)
"pH Buffering of Urea Hydrolysis Solutions Using Unpurified Urease from Sword Beans and Soybeans: Toward Improving Ground Strength with Calcium Carbonate"
Competition · 2021
Prize Winner, 60th All Japan High School English Essay Contest
Won a prize in a national English essay contest for high school students.
International Experience
Seoul, South Korea2026.08
🇰🇷 Tokyo Forum 2026 Youth Session Pre-Training
An exchange with students from top Korean universities, where we discussed the impact of AI on society.
Vietnam2026.03
🇻🇳 Travel
Traveled around Vietnam, visiting Hanoi, Ha Long Bay, Da Nang, and Hoi An.
Beijing, China2025.09
🇨🇳 UTokyo Experiential Learning Program 2025
Visited Tsinghua University in Beijing, one of China's top universities, and connected with local students. Also took a side trip to Tianjin.
Awards
Awards
1st Place
UTokyo Faculty of Engineering AI Programming Hackathon (Local LLM) (in collaboration with Microsoft & Qualcomm)
RealFace
A real-time face transformation app that runs entirely on-device on a Surface Pro 11 powered by Snapdragon X Elite.
Rather than replacing streamers with AI, it gives them freedom over how they look — while keeping the trust that a real person is the one speaking.
3DMM tracking
Tracks facial shape and expression with a 3D morphable model.
LivePortrait (ONNX)
Runs face reenactment on ONNX Runtime.
QNN / CPU switching
Execution providers can be switched for testing.
Consent-gated enrollment
A face can't be registered without the person's consent.
Local-only storage
Face data is never sent to external servers.
About the NPU
FaceMap has been verified to run on the QNN EP (NPU). The generation path (LivePortrait) currently runs on the CPU; moving it to the NPU is the next challenge.
ONNX RuntimeQNN EP.NET (ARM64)LivePortrait3DMM
The first product I took all the way to completion.
Award — AI Flea Market App
Web Engineer Hackathon hosted by UTTC
Built a feature that generates images of how clothes would look on the user, from the user's own photo.
Skills
Skills
Machine Learning
Pythonscikit-learnTF-IDF + LinearSVC (~90% accuracy)Random ForestPCANaive Bayes
On-device AI
ONNX RuntimeQNN Execution Provider.NET (ARM64)
Web & Automation
FlaskGoogle Apps ScriptCSS / UI
Coursework
Control EngineeringInformation TheoryNetwork TheoryDatabase DesignIoT