About

Teo Imoto-Tar | 井本タール テオ

Hi! I'm an undergraduate student pursuing Computer Science and Mathematics at UC San Diego and I work as a research assistant at Neuroelectronics Lab in the Jacobs School of Engineering.

I am interested in software engineering and AI research, with a focus on computer vision and computational neuroscience. I've worked on projects ranging from robotics and game jams to fMRI-to-image generation. Outside of research, I make music and really like capybaras. >:)

timototar@ucsd.eduResume

Projects

BRAID: Brain Representation to Artificial Image via Diffusion

BRAID: Brain Representation to Artificial Image via Diffusion

A cross-modal fMRI-to-image reconstruction model that generates images from brain activity using a diffusion-based generative pipeline.

San Diego Undergraduate Tech Conference (SDUTC), 2025.

[code][pdf][poster]
User Recommendation with BERT and FAISS

User Recommendation with BERT and FAISS

User and compliment recommendation system for Murmur Platforms Inc. - an anonymous, university-only compliments platform with over 50,000 users. Below is a demo of our approach.

[code]

Events

YC AI x Bio hackathon: Built Clinical Intelligence at a 12-hour hackathon (Tamarind Bio, BioRender): a tool that visualizes ligand binding affinities for a query protein using data from US patents and PubMed.link
YC AI startup school: Two day conference featuring AI startups, top 2,500 CS handpicked students.link
TinyWare 25: Incessant — 48h game jam entry on theme "On Repeat"itch
TritonWare Spring 25: Mootsies — puzzle + story-driven gameitch
DataHacks25 Project: Embedding Pokémon OSTs into the Real Worldcode
Convex & Non-Convex Optimization Algorithms Notebookcode
TritonWare Fall 24: Last Hours — visual novel mystery game jamitch