Riku Higashimura (Liku)

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

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

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"

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

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

Won the NTT Docomo Hackathon-type internship. Developed a service to soften text messages from superiors.

Ranked 2nd in the Rakuten Group Hackathon-type internship. Developed an app to introduce sleep for improving daily rhythm.

Received the Individual MVP at the Fujifilm Hackathon-type internship.

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

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

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.)

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

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

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