Summary
Masaaki Inaba is a research scientist and seasoned product and strategy leader with 11 years of experience spanning startup founding, executive roles, and management consulting. Based in Tokyo, he has led cross-functional initiatives at Medley—ranging from product renewals and marketing automation to PMI and new business incubation—while also founding and running startups. His current research focuses on the evolution of cooperation using multi-agent simulation, blending complex-systems thinking with empirical policy and planning science pursued through master's and doctoral studies at the University of Tsukuba. Unusually for an executive-turned-academic, he pairs hands-on technical product work (including a full platform rewrite) with rigorous social-science research methods. He brings a rare mix of strategic vision, operational execution, and interdisciplinary curiosity about how social phenomena emerge from agent-level interactions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, 経営学, Bachelor's degree, 経営学 at Hitotsubashi University
Doctor's Degree, Policy and Planning Sciences, Doctor's Degree, Policy and Planning Sciences at University of Tsukuba
Japanese, English