Academic

Master's Students

• Kota Hakamada

  Thesis: A comprehensive study among meta-compiler frameworks with a concatinative language
  2026 - Present

Bachelor's Students

• Anan Teruya

  Thesis: Building a YARV interpreter for Ruby in RPython
  2026 - Present

• Kota Hakamada

  Thesis: RPyForth: A Fast Forth Implementation written in RPython
  2025

• Four B3 Students

  Project: EECS Seminar: Writing a fast interpreter in RPython
  2024 - Present

• Teaching performance rated S

  the highest band, Tokyo Metropolitan University
  2025

• Research performance rated S

  the highest band, Tokyo Metropolitan University
  2025

• JSPS Research Fellowship (PD)

  competitive national postdoctoral fellowship (declined)
  2023

• JSPS Research Fellowship (DC2)

  competitive national doctoral fellowship
  2021--2023

• Second place, ACM Student Research Competition

  Graduate Category
  2019

• Shusuke Takahashi

  IPSJ CS Field Encouragement Award, PRO-2021-3 "Object Graph Collection Method Based on a Language Implementation Framework for Live Programming of Data Structures" (Mentored during PhD supervision)
  2021

• Yuyu Watanabe

  IEEJ Award for Encouraging Women's Activities in Electrical Engineering (Supervised during first year as assistant professor)
  2024

• Kota Hakamada

  Fixstars Sponsor Award, PPL 2026 "Performance Evaluation of Meta-tracing JIT Compilation Applied to a Forth Interpreter" (Selected from 93 students' presentations (108 total); supervised)
  2026

• Compiler Lab

  Lecturer, Tokyo Metropolitan University
  2024 - Present

• FPGA Lab

  Lecturer, Tokyo Metropolitan University
  2024 - Present

• Scripting Language Lab

  Co-instructor, Tokyo Metropolitan University
  2024 - Present

• Programming Introduction to C (II)

  Co-instructor, Tokyo Metropolitan University
  2024 - 2025

Ongoing

• プログラミングおよびプログラミング言語ワークショップ (Workshop for Programming and Programming Languages, PPL)

  組織委員 (Co-organizer)
  2027

• プログラミング研究会 (Workshop for Programming, PRO)

  運営委員 (Steering Committee Member)
  2026 - Present

• 情報処理学会 会誌編集委員会 AWG

  編集委員
  2025 - Present

• Workshop on Virtual Machine and Intermediate Languages (VMIL)

  Steering Committee Member
  2025 - Present

• The Programming Journal

  Artifact Evaluation Committee
  2026 - 2027

• Development of Meta-Compiler Technology through Japan-Europe Collaboration and Creation of Next-Generation Software Infrastructure

  JSPS: Grant-in-Aid for Acceleration Fund for International Collaborative Research (International Collaborative Research Strengthening) Funding Amount: 15,340,000 JPY Investigator(s): Yusuke Izawa
  2026 - 2029

• A high-efficiency machine learning notebook programming environment that responds to (or interacts with) programmers

  KAKEN: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists Funding Amount: 4,680,000 JPY Investigator(s): Yusuke Izawa
  2025 - 2028

• High-Performance and Highly-Productive Language Infrastructures Based on Language Implementation Frameworks

  KAKEN: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) Funding Amount: 18,460,000 JPY Investigator(s): Hidehiko Masuhara, Youyou Cong, Yudai Tanabe, Yusuke Izawa
  2024 - 2028

• Advanced Performance Study of a Multi-Language Software Platform for Increasing Productivity in the Software Industry

  JSPS: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up Funding Amount: 2,340,000 JPY Investigator(s): Yusuke Izawa
  2024 - 2026

• Study on High-performance and Language-agnostic Hybrid JIT Compiler

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows Funding Amount: 1,500,000 JPY
  2021 - 2023

• A hybrid runtime compiler that achieves both versatility and high performance

  Japan Science and Technology Agency: ACT-X Funding Amount: 4,500,000 JPY Investigator(s): Yusuke Izawa
  2020 - 2023