Yuya Hamamatsu

Yuya Hamamatsu is PhD student at Taltech. Robotics software engineer.

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CV

Work experience

2020-2023 Sony, R&D engineer, Tokyo, Japan

Education

2023-2027? Taltech, PhD student, Tallinn, Estonia

• 2024 Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Visiting Researcher, Pisa, Italy

2018-2020 University of Tokyo, MS, Tokyo, Japan

• 2018 Texas A&M University, exchange student, TX, USA

2014-2018 Doshisha University, BCs, Kyoto, Japan

Award

• 3rd place at IEEE OES ocean challenge, 2026
• Award of Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, 2020
• Toyota Dwango Advanced AI Human Resources Scholarship, 2019
• Best Student Award at Texas A&M summer school, 2018
• 1st prize of the Underwater Robots Competition OTO'18, 2018

Research Project

Keyword: Robot control, marine robot, robot software architecture, reinforcement learning

You can find all my papers from Google Scholar.

Highlighted Papers

Fig	Conf/journal	Title
	IROS 2026	Layout-independent actuation allocator for marine robots
	JOE 2026	Strouhal-Aware Model Predictive Control for Efficient Multi-Fin Flapping Locomotion
	ICRA 2025	Cross-platform Learning-based Fault Tolerant Surfacing Controller for Underwater Robots
	RoboSoft 2025	Underwater Soft Fin Flapping Motion with Deep Neural Network Based Surrogate Model

Reviewing activity

Nature Communications, ICRA, IROS, RA-L, T-MECH, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE OES Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Robosoft

Other Information

Open source simulator DR_MuJoCo