About
I am an incoming PhD student at College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University under the supervision of Prof. Jaehong Yoon. I graduated from The University of Tokyo in March 2026 and am currently visiting the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR I2R, under the supervision of Dr. Xun Xu.
My research interests center on discrete and continuous diffusion models and their applications, including image generation, language modeling, 3D generation, and text-to-speech systems. More broadly, I am interested in generative modeling, computer vision, 3D world understanding, and statistical machine learning.
Outside research, I enjoy playing badminton. I have brought my badminton racket to every country I have visited, including Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, and Singapore.
News
- Aug. 2026: I am joining Nanyang Technological University as an incoming PhD student under Prof. Jaehong Yoon!
- Mar. 2026: I graduated from The University of Tokyo.
- Nov. 2025: I started visiting the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR I2R, under the supervision of Dr. Xun Xu.
- Feb. 2025: Our paper FairT2I: Mitigating Social Bias in Text-to-Image Generation via Large Language Model-Assisted Detection and Attribute Rebalancing appeared on arXiv.
Research Experience
Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR I2R
Visiting Student with Dr. Xun Xu
Nov. 2025 – Present
- Working on diffusion models.
EPFL
Summer@EPFL with Prof. Amir Zamir
Jul. 2024 – Nov. 2025
- Developing a transformer pretrained model for 3D modalities using masked token prediction.
- Training VQ-VAE-style tokenizers for LRM-triplane and Gaussian splatter images.
KAUST
Visiting Student Research Program with Prof. Bernard Ghanem
Sep. 2023 – Mar. 2024
- Developed an efficient token-dropping method for VideoMAE using motion vectors from H.264 compression to reduce computation and GPU memory usage.
Albert Inc.
Research Intern
Aug. 2021 – Jul. 2022
- Developed a surface reconstruction method for noisy point clouds using energy-based generative models to improve robustness.
Publications
[Surface Reconstruction from Raw Point Cloud via Energy-Based Models]
The 36th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2022 · arXiv · pdf
Education
The University of Tokyo
Master of Computer Science
2024 – 2026
The University of Tokyo
Bachelor of Information Science
2019 – 2023
Awards/Scholarships
Shin-nihon Scholarship Foundation Scholar Japan
Apr. 2024 – March. 2026
World-leading Innovative Graduate Study Program Co-designing Future Society Awardee
The University of Tokyo
Oct. 2024 – March. 2026
Languages
- Japanese (Native)
- English (C2)
Contact
- Email: sakurai-jinya725@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
- GitHub: jinya1013
- Google Scholar: Profile
- LinkedIn: jinya-sakurai