Masaru Ikeda
Executive Editor at Tohoku University
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolMasaru Ikeda is a veteran techpreneur and journalist with over a decade of experience launching web services, founding and leading multiple companies, and shaping Japan’s startup media landscape. Beginning his writing career at age 12, he later surveyed the Asian and Silicon Valley IT scenes for ASCII co-founder Kazuhiko Nishi, giving him rare early access to industry pioneers and trends. As a system architect and engineer he has built ISP infrastructure, consulted on live broadcast systems, and helped develop a handset-embedded wallet used by Japan’s largest mobile operator. He blends hands-on technical expertise with editorial leadership—most recently as Executive Editor of StartPass Window and longtime co-founder/editor of The Bridge—curating content for thousands of startup offices nationwide. Masaru also advises government and academic startup programs, performs due diligence for VCs, and has taught open-source system integration across Asia, reflecting a commitment to growing entrepreneurial ecosystems. His background in materials engineering and ongoing Ph.D. candidacy at the University of Tokyo add an uncommon research-oriented perspective to his product and media work.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering at Kansai University
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
pytorch3
deep-learning3
machine-learning3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
misonuma/strsum
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:15 commits in 8 days
misonuma/recursum
May 2021 - Sep 2021
A repository for Unsupervised Abstractive Opinion Summarizationby Generating Sentences with Tree-Structured Topic Guidance
Contributions:15 commits in 4 months
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