Professor at Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TSI)
Tokyo, Japan
Join Prog.AI to see contacts
Join Prog.AI to see contacts
Summary
👤
Senior
🎓
Top School
Neil Rubens is a seasoned AI/ML researcher and practitioner with 14+ years of experience spanning academia, industry, and startup mentoring. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he combines high-impact research leadership as a Professor at TSI and DCODE NETWORK with hands-on engineering as Principal AI Engineer at Active Intelligence and Lead Engineer at Jazel. He has guided innovation ecosystems and talent as a mentor at Techstars and as an advisor to multiple ventures, including Kanji Learning Lab and The Quantified Self, reflecting a commitment to applied learning and responsible AI. Neil holds a PhD in Machine Learning from Tokyo Institute of Technology, along with an MS from UMass Amherst and a BS from Brigham Young University, underscoring a rigorous academic foundation. His career also includes visiting scholar experiences at Stanford and teaching stints at the University of Electro-Communications, demonstrating a broad international perspective on AI education and research. In addition to research, he has contributed to AI-driven product development and strategic advisory roles, bridging theory, product, and policy to drive scalable impact.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Frank Phillips College
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
PhD, Computer Science (Machine Learning), PhD, Computer Science (Machine Learning) at Tokyo Institute of Technology
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Innovation Analysis, Innovation Analysis at Stanford University
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.