Jun Harashima
Natural Language Processing Engineer
Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolJun Harashima is a Natural Language Processing engineer with a Ph.D. in Informatics from Kyoto University and over a decade of experience bridging academic research and product-focused ML engineering. He led search and machine learning teams at Cookpad, rising to Head of R&D, and now focuses on improving foundational NLP analysis and building/operating NLP APIs at LINEヤフー. Jun combines hands-on system design for production search/ML services with research rigor from his doctoral and JSPS fellowship background, enabling practical yet scientifically grounded solutions. He has moved fluidly between individual contributor, team lead, and department head roles, demonstrating both technical depth and organizational leadership. Based in Japan, he brings a long-term focus on search relevance and deployable NLP infrastructure that scales across consumer-facing products.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Informatics at Kyoto University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (54)
pii10
sentencepiece10
acl10
recipe10
document-classification10
lda10
mecab10
hci10
thai10
arabic-nlp9
multilabel-classification9
switch9
nutrition9
text-processing9
hydrogen9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jun-harashima/kongming
May 2020 - Nov 2021
🏹 Collect arrows from parsing results
Contributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 6 months
parsingarrowscollectparser
jun-harashima/pott
Mar 2018 - Nov 2021
Paper organization tool on terminal
Contributions:339 commits, 285 PRs, 207 pushes in 3 years 9 months
terminalorganization-toollinuxcli
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