- Published multiple papers in international conferences such as ICLR, KDD, ICML, etc.
- Received the Software Japan Award 2017 from the Information Processing Society of Japan for his contributions to the development of a deep learning framework
Research Experience
- Researcher at Preferred Networks (Oct. 2014 – present)
- Worked on machine learning and computer vision for IoT
- Led the development of the deep learning framework Chainer
- Researcher/Engineer at Preferred Infrastructure (Apr. 2012 – Oct. 2014)
- Mainly engaged in the Jubatus project
- Internship experiences: pixiv (Mar. 2011), worked on improvements of recommender systems; Google Japan (Aug. 2010 – Sep. 2010), worked at Google Japanese Input team and created the calculator feature
Education
- Doctor: Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo (Apr. 2016 – Sept. 2022), Supervisor: Issei Sato
- Master: Mathematical Informatics, University of Tokyo (Apr. 2010 – Mar. 2012), Supervisor: Hiroshi Nakagawa
- Bachelor: Mathematics, University of Tokyo (Apr. 2006 – Mar. 2010)
Background
Research interests include deep learning and its software stack. He was the lead developer of the deep learning framework Chainer.
Miscellany
Co-authored a Japanese book on online machine learning with three colleagues