Summary
Hiroshi Maruyama is a senior advisor and technology strategist with eight years of focused experience in computer science and statistical machine learning, and a multi-decade leadership background spanning industry and academia. He has held senior roles at Preferred Networks—rising from PFN Fellow to Director and now Senior Advisor—while concurrently serving as Project Professor at The University of Tokyo and Executive Fellow at Kao Corporation. His career blends corporate R&D leadership (IBM, Canon) with public-sector science administration as former Vice Director-General and Professor at The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, giving him rare fluency in both research and commercialization. He excels at translating advanced machine learning research into business and product strategy, having steered technology direction across startups and large enterprises. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he pairs rigorous academic training from Tokyo Institute of Technology with hands-on experience shaping AI initiatives at scale. A less obvious strength is his sustained ability to operate at the intersection of policy, industry partnerships, and technical depth, making him effective as both a strategist and an applied scientist.
8 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japanese, English