Konnichiwa! I am Yuki Nishimi, a first-year master’s student in the Communications and Computer Engineering course at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. As of March 2026, I am having an exchange year at EPFL in Switzerland. My interest includes how computers in discrete systems can work efficiently/reliably, cooperating with one another.

Education

Kyoto University Apr 2025 - Mar 2028
M.S. in Communications and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Sep 2025 - Jul 2026
School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC), Exchange Student
Kyoto University Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
B.E. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Activities

Research Internship (EPFL) Feb 2026 - Jul 2026
Working on a full-time research project at the Distributed Computing Lab (DCL), focusing on the design and development of a P2P distribution system for efficient Large Language Model (LLM) deployment.
Technical Engineering Internship (Nomura Research Institute) Aug 2025
Conducted feasibility verification and prototyping for adding RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) features to an enterprise environment.
Software Developer (iCeMS) Apr 2023 - Aug 2025
Developed and maintained image analysis tools for electron microscope footage at the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University.
LignoSat Project Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Participated as a student member in the world’s first wooden satellite project by Kyoto University and Sumitomo Forestry. Developed ground station software for satellite tracking and communication. The first unit was deployed from the ISS in December 2024.
Technology Reimagines Timeless Beauty Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Participated in a program on craft, art, and engineering. Created an art piece generating ukiyo-e using machine learning, which was exhibited at the NowHere gallery in New York.

Projects

Paxos-tob Feb 2026
A library for total order broadcast across distributed systems.
Decentralized DNS (NameCoin) Fall 2025
Implemented a Proof-of-Work blockchain and decentralized DNS from scratch.
Memcached Performance Analysis with eBPF Fall 2025
Analyzed bottlenecks in Memcached tail latency using eBPF.

Publications & Awards

  • Student Presentation Award - IEICE Technical Committee on Network Systems (NS), first half of 2025.

  • Takuto Yamada, Yuki Nishimi, Takehiro Sato, Eiji Oki, “Experimental Analysis of Migration Time for Service Function Chain with Programmable Data Plane”, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2025), Dec 2025.

Skills

  • Technologies: Go, C++, Python, Rust, Git, Linux, eBPF
  • Open Source: Contributed to rust-lang/rustfmt