Per Prof. Dunn:

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
I would like to request that Mr. Takuma Kurakami be appointed as a Visiting Assistant Project
Scientist in my laboratory in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Mr.
Kurakami is planning to spend one year at UCLA. During this time, he will continue to be paid
by his employer, the Nippon Sheet Glass company, and thus his appointment will be without
salary.
Mr. Kurakami’s research during this time will be on the application of machine learning in sol-gel
synthesis of materials. Based on this experimental work, he will be developing algorithms that
can be widely used in materials science.