Kotaro Sakamoto
代表取締役社長 at 株式会社BESNA研究所
Minato, Japan
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Top SchoolKotaro Sakamoto is a Tokyo-based founder and CEO with a decade of experience at the intersection of NLP research and product engineering. Trained to the doctoral level in question answering, summarization, and computational linguistics, he has combined academic roles at the National Institute of Informatics and a visiting research stint at Carnegie Mellon with practical university-facing deployments that led to institutional recognition. He founded and now leads BESNA研究所, translating advanced language technologies into applied systems and teaching practical courses on PHP, Android, and databases. His work attracted national media attention in Japan and grew from hands-on projects—like a campus PC-usage visualization tool that inspired an annual apps contest—illustrating a talent for turning research into impactful, user-facing solutions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Computer Science, Question Answering, Summarization, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Computer Science, Question Answering, Summarization, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics at Yokohama National UniversityJ-1 Visiting Research Scholar, Question Answering, Summarization, J-1 Visiting Research Scholar, Question Answering, Summarization at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
exposure-notification8
exposure8
contact-tracing-app8
json7
notification7
json-ld7
server-side6
xamarin-forms5
contact-tracing5
android4
emacs3
ios3
xamarin3
cross-platform2
scala2
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ktr-skmt/LiCOS-JSON4Scala
Jul 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:40 PRs, 152 pushes, 26 branches in 2 years
ktr-skmt/werewolfworld
Oct 2017 - May 2020
a JSON-LD based protocol for a game of Werewolf
Contributions:36 PRs, 1302 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
json-ldwerewolfjsongame-of
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