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Attended the JSPS Fellowship Friendship Meeting 2026 (学振フレンドシップミーティング) for newly appointed DC2 / PD research fellows.

Delivered the PhD preliminary defense — Safe and Efficient Generative Models for Autonomous Driving — covering 8 first-author papers across the VLA safety alignment and real-time diffusion planning lines.

Awarded the JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2) for Driving Decision Making by LLM Reinforcement Learning Combining Fast and Slow Thinking — KAKENHI grant 26KJ0799, FY 2026, hosted at The University of Tokyo. See the KAKEN project page.

An Open-Source Modular Benchmark for Diffusion-Based Motion Planning in Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving accepted at ITSC 2026 (Naples, Italy). Anytime Diffusion Planning has been submitted to IROS 2026 and is currently under review.

Multi-PrefDrive: Optimizing Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving Through Multi-Preference Tuning accepted at IROS 2025.

Presented PrefDrive at IEEE IV 2025 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, plus an invited talk and panel at the SPADE workshop.