Akihiro Kameda
Project Assistant Professor at National Institutes for the Humanities
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolAkihiro Kameda is a Project Assistant Professor based in Tokyo with 11 years' experience at the intersection of NLP-driven information extraction, network analysis, and research-oriented software development. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo and has progressed through academic research roles at Kyoto University, the National Museum of Japanese History, and national research institutes, blending scholarly rigor with practical tooling. A polyglot programmer (Python, Perl, JavaScript, Java), he contributes to open-source utilities for real-world data problems—such as enhancing a high-performance xlsx-to-csv converter with cross-platform fixes and encoding controls. His work emphasizes data-centric science, linked open data, and reproducible research infrastructures, making him adept at turning complex humanities datasets into machine-actionable resources. Colleagues value his ability to bridge deep academic methods with pragmatic engineering, often improving usability and robustness in tools used for large-scale data processing.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Github Skills (9)
csv10
python10
fileio9
file-access9
file-handling9
file-processing9
testing8
xlsx7
windows6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dilshod/xlsx2csv
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Convert xslx to csv, it is fast, and works for huge xlsx files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Akihiro significantly contributed to the `xlsx2csv` project by adding new features and addressing existing issues. They implemented options for controlling line terminators and output encoding, enhancing the flexibility of the conversion process. The user also refactored code and fixed bugs related to date formatting and the handling of delimiters, improving the overall usability of the tool. They also added test for Windows environment.
csvxlsx
DataJournalismJP/DataJournalismJP.github.io
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 19 pushes in 3 months
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