Nodoka Shibasaki

Electrical and Computer Engineering Student at Northeastern University researching AI and Robotics at OMRON SINIC X

Strong interest in Robotics Control and Systems

--- Bio ---

Highlighted items are my current activities

2004 Born in Tokyo, Japan

2015 Moved to Cupertino, CA; began running + basketball 🏃‍♀️⛹️‍♀️

2020–23 ML + Biomechanics Intern @ Stanford

2020–23 Founder & Executive Dir @ JTutor

2024 Founder & President of Asian Student Association @ Northeastern Oakland

2024 Software Engineering Intern @ London South Bank University

2024–25 Robotics Engineering Intern @ Shepherd Lab

2025 Control & Simulations Intern @ Silicon Synapses

2025 Service Director @ Phi Sigma Rho

                        2025
                        Operations @ Boston Hack BeanPot
                    

                        2025
                        Control Manipulation Intern @ OMRON SINIC X
                    

--- Research Projects ---

Multi-Modal Locomotion Robot

Jan 2025 – July 2025

Built a Sim-to-Real transfer pipeline for the lab multi-modal locomotion robot (M4): energy-aware planner on ROS 2 with Python, ArduPilot, and Dockerized stack for reproducible sim and field runs.

Ankle Exoskeleton

Sep 2024 – Jun 2025

Delivered a modular CAD design for the ankle exoskeleton, stared at data and .hydra

Hip Exoskeleton

Jun 2024 – Feb 2025

Optimized the hip-exoskeleton power system through LC filtering and policy of an Reinforcement Learning controller

--- News ---

08.01.2025 NEWStarted basketball coach volunteering in Japan⛹🏻‍♀️

07.01.2025 Starting as research intern at OMRON SINIC X in Tokyo

06.19.2025 Taking a break from Shepherd Lab and Silicon Synapses

--- Hobby ---

composition of activities I spend too much time on

- Trying new restaurants and cafes
- Optimizing workflow and settings on MacOS
- Building my own multi-modality drone
- Reading