Kosuke Yamada
Research Scientist at 株式会社 サイバーエージェント
Nagoya, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolKosuke Yamada is a research scientist and third-year Ph.D. candidate in Informatics at Nagoya University with a decade of experience bridging academic NLP research and industry R&D. His work focuses on lexical semantics, question answering, summarization, and discourse analysis, informed by roles at CyberAgent, RIKEN, and a visiting stint at the University of Liverpool. He has practical software engineering chops—contributing refactors and tests to a popular Swift algorithms repo—demonstrating attention to code quality and data structures. A former JSPS fellow and repeat research intern across media and tech companies, he excels at turning linguistic insight into robust engineering artifacts. Based in Nagoya, he combines deep theoretical training with hands-on implementation experience across ML pipelines and backend systems.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Informatics, Intelligent Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Informatics, Intelligent Systems at Nagoya University
Github Skills (8)
data-structures10
algorithms10
swift10
refactoring10
data-structure10
refactor10
mergesort9
linked-list9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kodecocodes/swift-algorithm-club
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Algorithms and data structures in Swift, with explanations!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kosuke primarily refactored and improved the `MergeSort` and `LinkedList` implementations. Their work involved modifying methods, renaming variables, and fixing existing issues, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability. The user's commits also included updates to test files, confirming their attention to ensuring the correctness of changes. This focus on data structures and algorithms aligns with the repository's purpose.
explanationsdata-structuresswiftalgorithms-and-data-structures
yossan/Pelican
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 28 days
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