About
Mao Saeki / 佐伯真於
I am a founding member and Research Scientist at Equmenopolis Inc., where I lead the development of the InteLLA virtual agent. I am also pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Waseda University under the supervision of Prof. Tetsunori Kobayashi. My interest lies in multimodal conversational AI, especially the understanding and generation of non-verbal cues. I have built AI agents from the ground up and scaled them to serve thousands of users, while conducting cutting-edge research on turn-taking and gesture generation, integrating them into real-world applications.