Meet our Early Stage Researchers: Yuta Miyanishi from Tampere University of Technology

Meet our Early Stage Researchers: Yuta Miyanishi from Tampere University of Technology

Tell something about yourself

My name is Yuta Miyanishi. I have grown in Japan; I received a Bachelor in Computer Science, followed by a Master of Science in Human Centered Science and Biomedical Engineering, both from Tokyo Institute of Technology.

I have a background of vision science, especially about stereopsis. In the research, I mainly employed a psychophysical method to figure out how binocular disparity is processed in our visual system to produce depth perception.

Why did you applied to the project?

The biggest motivation was that the position is the great opportunity for me to join huge international collaboration across many institutes and researchers. Because I have thought that, as a junior researcher and also as one citizen, I need to get out of the homeland and experience sharing, discussing, and accepting ideas among people who have different background.

Moreover, our project requires me to combine scientific knowledge and technique effectively with satisfying technological demand. I believe that process will make me discover new viewpoint so that I can broaden my mind as a researcher.

What kind of expectations do you have for your research project and network training?

At first I expect myself to contribute to the project with the knowledge and skill which I have cultivated as a vision scientist. Also I hope that working in the multidisciplinary network makes me broaden my horizons as well as understanding technological, industrial, and social demand gives me a lot of scientific suggestion and inspiration.

Finally, of course, I believe that the achievement of ImmerSAFE will help to solve many difficulties around the world, such as ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster which is one of the most difficult human-caused problems.

Yuta Miyanishi is based at Tampere University of Technology, and his research project “Accommodation and convergence cues on transparent display media” is linked to Work Package 1.