Hironori Yoshida studied mechanical engineering at Waseda University in Tokyo and industrial design at TU Delft in the Netherlands. While working at Vincent de Rijk Werkplaats and OMA in Rotterdam, he started working on digital fabrication, resulting in his MSc thesis "Graded Transitions in Material Connections". The thesis was presented at Siggraph 2011 talk session, and its spin-off project "Scan to Production" was exhibited at Milano Salone and Materializing-Ten in Tokyo. As for his academic career, he has lead architecture studios at the chair for CAAD and the University of Tokyo. "Architecture-Scale Human-Assisted Additive Manufacturing", was accepted to Siggraph 2015 technical paper. In 2015, he joined the NCCR Digital Fabrication with supervision of Gramazio&Kohler Research, ETH in Zurich. |