Biography
Takeru Nakao
中尾 武
M.Sc. in Physics. Starting from physics, I work at Mitsubishi Chemical on the analysis and design of functional materials while developing research, software, and artworks across mathematical optimization, AI, blockchain, and open data.
Career
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Science & Innovation Center, Analysis Technology Laboratory, Materials Group, Senior Researcher Joint research with Akita Prefectural University on functional materials for 6G Selected for Ars Nova Tokyo, University of Tokyo Community manager and AI agent development, Chiba Institute of Technology course “Comprehensive Science (web3/AI),” 4th term (2026) (side work)
Chief mentor, Chiba Institute of Technology course “Comprehensive Science (web3/AI),” 3rd term (2025) (side work) Member, Code for Japan OSS board game team Operations member, ETHTokyo 2025 Technical collaboration, Myna Wallet Inc. (PoC and publicity) Technical collaboration, Aladdin Inc. (PoC and commercial implementation)
Representative member, LLM-jp, Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation Secretariat member, Dig DAO (Digital Agency Web3.0 study group spin-off DAO) Programming lecture assistant, Chiba Institute of Technology course “Comprehensive Science (web3),” 2nd term (2024) Member, Pagoda Network Member, Neo Yamakoshi Village Supporter DAO Technical collaboration, a42x Inc. (PoC and publicity)
Engineer, Henkaku Community Member, Dig DAO (Digital Agency Web3.0 study group spin-off DAO) Programming lecture assistant, Chiba Institute of Technology course “Comprehensive Science (web3),” 1st term (2023) Member, Code for Japan Community web3 development team
Mitsubishi Chemical member, Research Group on New Technologies in Art in the IoT Era
Show entries before 2022
Researcher, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Science & Innovation Center, Materials Design Laboratory, Materials Science A Group (internal open recruitment transfer)
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Production Technology Department, Tsurumi Production Technology Center, Yokohama Technology Development Group, Researcher
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Production Technology Department, Tsurumi Production Technology Center, Technology Development Group 2, Researcher Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Science & Innovation Center, Polymer Laboratory, Functional Design and Development Group, Researcher (concurrent) Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Production Technology Department, Safety Engineering Center, Researcher (concurrent)
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Production Technology Department, Yokkaichi Production Technology Center, Precision Processing Group, Researcher
Mitsubishi Chemical Science and Technology Research Center, Organic Functional Materials Research Institute, Polymer Design B Group, Researcher (concurrent)
MCHC R&D Synergy Center, Engineering Analysis Laboratory, Precision Processing Group, Researcher Mitsubishi Chemical Science and Technology Research Center, Organic Devices Research Institute, Device C Group, Researcher (concurrent)
Mitsubishi Chemical Science and Technology Research Center, Production Technology Research Institute, Precision Processing Group, Researcher Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, M.Sc. completed
Tokyo University of Science, First Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, graduated Publicity staff, 57th Condensed Matter Young Scientists Summer School organizing committee
Publicity staff, 56th Condensed Matter Young Scientists Summer School organizing committee
Mie Prefectural Tsu High School, General Course, graduated
Born in Suzuka, Mie, Japan
Awards, grants & selections
Selected, Ars Nova Tokyo (University of Tokyo), 1st Cohort Selected, University of Tokyo Blockchain Application Practice Program SG “Contemporary Art × Blockchain” Selected, Ma Earth Funding Round 3 (Team FoR)
Tokyo Governor's Cup Open Data Hackathon 2025 — Finalist 3rd place, Matsuo-Iwasawa LLM Development Competition 2025 Phase 2 (Final) (Team “oNo.1”) Four awards at “ChibaTech Expo 2025”, the final presentation event of Chiba Institute of Technology’s “Special Lecture on Integrated Science (Introduction to web3/AI)” (Jury Special Award, Social Impact Award, Student Award (most student votes), Professional Award (most professional votes)) Joi Ito’s YouTube channel “weekly gm” 2025 Annual Award “comugi Award” (Team Toban) ETHGlobal Agentic Ethereum Gaia & Collab.land’s Partner Prize Advanced to Round 2, ETHOnline 2025 Two awards at Hackathon HACK+2025 (3rd place, Regional Revitalization; Chain.Tokyo Award) Selected, Gitcoin Grants Program 23 Web3 Infrastructure / OSS Round (Team Toban) Joi Ito’s YouTube channel “weekly gm” 2024 Annual Award “Best Presenter Award” (Team Henkaku Community) Grand Prize, Mitsubishi Chemical Group “Four Ways to Protect” Character Competition
Mitsubishi Chemical 2023 Innovation Executive Award, “Junior Researcher Award” Three awards at ETHTokyo 2024 (Main Track Finalist, GMO Internet Group Prize, Cabinet Prize) 2nd place, Joi Ito web3 Business Challenge Contest Selected, Fracton Incubation Cohort 3 (Team Toban) Selected, Gitcoin Grants Program 22 OSS / Web3 Infrastructure Round (Team Toban) Selected, Gitcoin Grants Program 21 Web3 Open Source Software / Community Round (Team Dig DAO)
Jury Special Award, Startup Weekend Tokyo Web3
Show entries before 2022
3rd place, Yokohama City Fire Brigade Driving Skills Competition 1st place, Aoba Ward Fire Brigade Skills Competition (small pump operation)
3rd place, 41st All-Mitsubishi Track and Field Championships, Men’s 100m
6th place, 43rd Mie Prefectural High School Newcomers Track and Field Championships, Men’s 100m
Exhibitions
A circulation of recorded viewing and interaction, Circulating Seeds Metasurfaces Generated by Multi-objective and Topology Optimization