Profile
Riku Arakawa is a Ph.D. candidate at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is advised by Mayank Goel. His research focuses on developing AI assistants for health and well-being that can operate reliably under contextual uncertainty. By combining ubiquitous sensing, human-in-the-loop machine learning, and human-centered AI, he designs interactive systems that support everyday care activities. The developed systems have been deployed and evaluated in multiple clinical settings, including helping with post-operative wound care for skin cancer patients and supporting caregivers for ADHD-related hyperactive children.
His work has been published at leading human-computer interaction venues, including ACM CHI, UIST, and IMWUT. He has received multiple Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards, as well as fellowships including the Funai Fellowship, Masason Fellowship, Snap Research Fellowship, and Quad Fellowship. He has also received Ubicomp Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award (2025), was named to Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 in Healthcare & Science (2024), and was selected as one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 Japan (2025).
📣 On the job market for 2026–27!
I'm seeking tenure-track faculty and research scientist positions. If you know of relevant opportunities, I'd be grateful if you could reach out via email.
- Curriculum Vitae (updated: 2026.03)
- Google Scholar
- Research Blog (Japanese)
- Research Blog (English)