Rikuo is a project assistant at the Open Agriculture Initiative with a background in computer science. His main project is the Personal Food Computer. His main interests are controlled environment systems. Other interests include human computer interaction, realtime computer graphics, functional programming, programming languages, augmented reality, site reliability engineering, and multi-objective optimization algorithms. He worked at Colopl Inc. as a virtual reality game engineer while in high school and at Mercari Inc. as a machine learning intern.