Xiang Ruan
Professor at tiwaki Co., Ltd.
Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolXiang Ruan is a professor and AI entrepreneur based in Japan with over a decade of experience bridging academic research and industry productization in computer vision, image processing, signal processing, and machine learning. As founder and CEO of tiwaki Co., Ltd. since 2016 and formerly an expert at Omron, he has led teams to translate advanced algorithms into commercial systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Osaka City University and began his academic formation at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, giving him a strong foundation in both theory and applied engineering. Now a professor at Dalian University of Technology, he combines leadership, research supervision, and hands-on technical design—often focusing on perceptual and imaging problems that scale to real-world deployments. Notably, his career path reflects a persistent drive to move innovations from lab prototypes to market-ready products.
10 years of coding experience
Shanghai Jiaotong UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Osaka City UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), BME, Bachelor of Science (BS), BME at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
python7
mu4e6
org-mode5
emacs5
emacs-package3
html1
elfeed1
frontend1
weather1
gnu1
emacs-lisp1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ruanxiang/mr_saliency
Dec 2015 - Nov 2019
a python implementation of manifold ranking saliency
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 10 months
python
ruanxiang/emacs_conf
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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