Kenichi Maeda

I’m Kenichi Maeda, a Master of Science student in Computer Science at Brown University. My interests span machine learning, computer vision, visualization, medical imaging, and robotics.

My current research focuses on robot manipulation, including dexterous manipulation. I’m interested in imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and multimodal vision-language-action (VLA) models, particularly how to train policies efficiently and transfer them from simulation to robust operation on physical robots.

Previously, I earned my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Boston, where I worked on multimodal large language models and geometric mesh processing.

Education

Brown University

2025–

Master of Science in Computer Science

Research focus: Dexterous hand manipulation; reinforcement learning and imitation learning.

University of Massachusetts Boston

2021–2025

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Research focus: Multimodal large language models and geometric mesh processing.

Work Experience

Amazon

June 2026 - August 2026

Robotics Software Development Engineer Intern

Bellevue, WA

Amazon Fulfillment Technology & Robotics

University of Rostock

June 2024 - August 2024

Research Intern

Rostock, Germany

Selected as a 2024 DAAD RISE Germany Scholar.

Contributed to simulation software for deep brain stimulation.

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

June 2023 - August 2023

Software Engineer Intern

Huntsville, AL

Contributed to the development of a quadcopter control system for autonomous flight.