Hiroki Oya
People Manager - Data Sciense And AI Solution Service Team
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolHiroki Oya is a seasoned AI and text-analytics leader with 11+ years turning natural language research into production solutions for automotive, insurance, telecom, and enterprise clients. Based in Tokyo, he progressed from Watson technical specialist and solution developer to AI Solution Service Project Leader and now leads a Data Science & AI Solution Service team at IBM. He has deep hands-on expertise in NLP, text mining, ReqIF requirement analytics, and cloud search platforms (Azure, Apache Solr), blending product development, pre-sales, and project delivery. His career includes prolonged engagements building VoC, social media, and regulatory text systems and automating underwriting and assessment workflows—work that influenced large client deployments and public IBM projects. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical manager who still codes and architects, bridging research-level methods with operational, business-focused outcomes. He also has an academic bent—teaching C programming as a visiting lecturer—which helps him communicate complex technical ideas to diverse stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Knowledge Engineering, Master's Degree Knowledge Engineering at Doshisha University
English, Korean, Japanese
Github Skills (17)
java9
language-processing9
nlp9
ibm-watson9
corenlp8
natural-language-processing8
sdk8
gradle8
ibm-cloud8
watson6
similarity2
korean-nlp2
transformers1
transformer1
devops1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
oyahiroki/nlp4j-data
Jun 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
oyahiroki/nlp4j
Jul 2019 - Feb 2023
Natural Language Processing library for Java
Contributions:271 commits, 1 PR, 500 pushes in 3 years 7 months
nlplanguage-processingcorenlpnatural-languageprocessing-library
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