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Riku Higashimura (Liku)

Engineer at Recruit Co., Ltd.
My special skill is mentalism. I can guess the contents of playing cards using only facial expressions!
I am also half-Chinese and a member of MENSA.

Profile

  1. Engineer at Recruit Co., Ltd.

    2024 - Present

  2. Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Informatics

    2022 - 2024

  3. Osaka Prefecture University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Systems, Information Engineering Course

    2018 - 2022

  4. Osaka Prefecture Otemae High School

    2014 - 2017

Unique Activities

Side Job in the Shipping Industry

2024-now

Supporting IT operations at Pacific Partners Co., Ltd. as an executive officer

New Business Development via Recruit’s “Ring”

2024

Tried the new business proposal system “Ring” of Recruit Co., Ltd. Out of about 900 applications, I was selected as one of the 10 candidates. I was selected as one of them and was involved in new business development. I was happy to be the only freshmen and the only engineer selected.

Studied at DFKI (German Research Center for AI) in Germany

2023-2024

Studied at DFKI (Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) in Germany for 6 months as an internship

3 Conferences and 1 Journal Article

2020-2024

IEEE Access "Estimating Unknown English Words From User Smartphone Reading Behaviors" ACM CHI2022 "Helping Mobile Learners Know Unknown Words through their Reading Behavior" FIT2022 "Estimating Unknown Words Based on Reading Behavior of Mobile Learners" (Received FIT Young Researcher Award and President's Award) IEICE2022 "Estimating Unknown Words Based on Reading Activity Data using Smartphones"

Received President's Award for the Academic Year 2022

2023

Recognized for research achievements and received the President's Award for the Academic Year 2022

Received FIT Young Researcher Award

2022

Received the FIT Young Researcher Award (selected in the top 1.5% among 558 applicants!)

Awards in Multiple Corporate Hackathons

2022

NTT Docomo (Winner), Rakuten Group (Runner-up), and Fujifilm (Individual MVP). Rapidly developed practical prototypes, such as a service to soften text messages from superiors.

Completed internships at 9 companies as an engineer

2021-2022

Navitime, Rakuten, Rakus, SoftBank, Docomo, NTT East Japan, Toyota, Fujifilm, Nomura Research Institute

Chinese Language: HSK Level 4 (Currently studying for Level 5)

2022

Obtained HSK Level 4. Equivalent to about 700 points in TOEIC. Currently studying for HSK Level 5.

Founded Student Organization

2019

Founded the planning-based university circle 'Outral' alone. Increased the number of members to 35 in 2 months. (Visited uninhabited islands, had a BBQ with a whole roasted rabbit, etc.)

Member of JAPAN MENSA

2017

Became a member of JAPAN MENSA. MENSA is an international group of people with the top 2% of IQ scores.

Council Member of Kinran-kai

2017

After graduating from Otemae High School, served as a class organizer and council member of the alumni association 'Kinran-kai'

Mentalism

2012-now

Can guess the contents of playing cards using only facial expressions.

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