I am an undergraduate studying CS at Georgia Tech, with a minor in Math. Welcome to my website. My activities lie in programming languages (PL) and compilers and VR (why?).

At Georgia Tech, I

• spread interesting PL and compiler ideas through weekly meetings of the dependently-typed club,
• support researchers using LLM tooling at the supercomputing center,
• help run the Georgia Tech Extended Reality club as a Directory of Technology, and
• run a model trains club.

My hobbies include model trains and riding railways.

A complete description is on my online CV.

News

• I'm attending IEEE VR 2026 and presenting at the IMMER-SENSE workshop.

Contact and Identities

Email: ken.shibata@kiyuri.ca or ken.shibata@gatech.edu

ORCID: 0009-0000-4393-9964

Why PL and VR, two seemingly unrelated fields?

I grew up surrounded by computers and spend a good chunk of my time understanding them through experimentation and reading as I found joy in clarifying mechanical [^1] processes. Given it's not possible for one to grasp every detail of a system, I want to make computing systems understandable through abstraction. This motivation led to

• PL/compilers for clarifying programming, which is arguably the main interface to stretch a computer's capabilities and
• VR for an "ultimate" skeumorphic computing interface.

[^1]: meaning automatic, not necessarily related to physical machinery