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CV [CV] (Last updated on Oct 8 2023)

Work

• April 2024 - present

  • Software Engineer at Preferred Networks, Inc.

• April 2023 - September 2023

  • Visiting Scholar at Emory University
  • Work on private federated learning (supervised by Prof. Li Xiong).

• April 2023 - March 2024

  • JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Student Research Fellow (DC2)
  • Work on academic research on privacy enhancing technologies.

Education

• April 2021 - March 2024

  • Ph.D. in Informatics at the Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University.
  • Doctoral Thesis: A Study on Private and Secure Federated Learning. [slide]
  • Supervised by Prof. Yang Cao and Prof. Masatoshi Yoshikawa

• April 2019 - March 2021

  • Master of Informatics at the Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshikawa, Ma Lab
  • Master’s Thesis: PCT-TEE: Trajectory-based Private Contact Tracing System with Trusted Execution Environment. (supervised by Prof. Yang Cao and Prof. Masatoshi Yoshikawa)

• April 2015 - March 2019

  • Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, Informatics and Mathematical Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Yoshikawa, Ma Lab
  • Bachelor’s Thesis Future Prediction based on Web News Articles with Publication Source and Time. (supervised by Prof. Makoto P. Kato and Prof. Masatoshi Yoshikawa)

Skills

• Programming

  • Advanced: Python
  • Basic: C++, Rust, Perl, Kotlin, Java, JS(TS), Pytorch, AWS

• Languages

  • Japanese (Native)
  • English (Basic)

Work Experience

• (Intern) Data engineer at Recruit Co.,Ltd. (October 2022 - November 2022)

  • Implementing and validating Dynamic AB testing.

• (Intern) Software engineer at Preferred Networks. (August 2022 - September 2022)

  • OTA system.

• (Intern + part-time) Researcher at LINE Corporation. (August 2020 - March 2021)

  • Research privacy enhanced technologies. [blog post]

• (Part-time) Web application engineer at Hatena Inc. (May 2019 - August 2020)

  • Developing backend and frontend of large scale web applications mainly using Perl and JS.

• (Intern) Software engineer at Recruit Co.,Ltd. (October 2019 - November 2019)

  • Developing backend and frontend large scale web applications mainly using Spring Boot and Java.

• (Intern) Data scientist at Wantedly Inc. (September 2019)

  • Working on proof of concept of a recommendation of a web application using Python and Ruby and BigQuery.

• (Intern) ML engineer at M3 Inc. (August 2019)

  • Developing backend infrastructure of recommendation service of web applications mainly using Scala and Kubernetes.

• (Part-time) Software engineer at MediaMaxJapan Inc. (July 2018 - March 2019)

  • Developing web applications mainly using Kotlin and TS. In particular, I was able to experience development that strictly followed DDD.

• (Intern) Software engineer at Kiizan Kiizan Inc. (Feburary 2018 - May 2018)

  • Developing web applications mainly using Ruby.

Awards

• The 20th DBSJ Kanbayashi Young Researcher Award (March 2024)
• Excellent Research Award at Kyoto University’s 16th ICT Innovation (Feb 2022) [poster]
• DEIM 2021 Student presentation award (Mar 2021)
• Master thesis award of social informatics department of Kyoto University (Feb 2021)
• DEIM 2020 Online presentation award (Mar 2020)

Funding

• (April 2023 - March 2024) JSPS student research fellow (DC2) (2,400,000 + 1,000,000 JPY / Year) [link]
• (December 2022) JSPS Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers (1,400,000 JPY) [link]
• (April 2021 - March 2023) Kyoto University AI/Data science Fellowship. (2,100,000 JPY / Year) [link]
• (March 2021) Exemption from repayment of scholarships of JASSO due to outstanding achievements. [link]