Hirotaka Ishihara

Hirotaka Ishihara

Incoming MEng EECS student

Biography

Jerry is an incoming MEng student at UC Berkeley. He is a typical beer lover 🍺(his favorite is Sapporo). He is also a serial entrepreneur. Wentie is one of the startups he built, and he developed a WeChat Mini Program platform for the Asian second-hand good trade market in Canada. He is enthusiastic about human-computer interaction and deep learning. He is looking forward to contributing to another disruptive idea.

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Educations

 
 
 
 
 

MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

University of California - Berkeley

Sep 2022 – May 2023 California, US
 
 
 
 
 

BSc in Computer Science Specialist

University of Toronto

Sep 2016 – Jun 2021 Toronto, CA

CGPA: 3.89 / 4.0

Relevant Courses: Data Structures & Analysis • Database • Software Design • Object Oriented Programming • Web Programming • Operating System • Computer Vision • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • Neural Nets & Deep Learning

Honor & AwardYearDescription
Innis College Later Life Learning Scholarship2020CGPA 3.7+
Dean’s List Scholar2017-2020CGPA 3.5+
Innis College Exceptional Achievement Award2017-2019CGPA 3.7+
ASA DataFest Finalist20198/80 teams
Innis College Admission Scholarship2016Outstanding admission GPA

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant

Rotman School of Management

Sep 2020 – Present Toronto, CA

Economic research supervised by Prof. Lu Han and Prof. Seung-Hyun Hong.
Big data analysis on US housing and financial markets.

 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern

Vector Institute

Apr 2020 – Aug 2020 Toronto, CA


Research project supervised by Prof. Sanja Fidler.
Developed a mobile application that enables fast interactive image object annotation with algorithm Curve-GCN.

 
 
 
 
 

Co-founder

Wentie

Aug 2019 – Present Toronto, CA

Co-founded with Postdoc. Dengbo He.
We provide a minimalist second-hand commodity trade platform.

 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant

University of Toronto & City of Toronto

Mar 2019 – Apr 2020 Toronto, CA

Research project supervised by Prof. Amer Shalaby and Ph.D. Wenxun Hu.
Participated in a research project that improves the transit signal priority at the intersections in Toronto with a deep reinforcement learning approach.