Neil Rubens
Professor at Techstars
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolNeil Rubens is a Professor and AI entrepreneur based in Tokyo with 15 years of experience building research-led machine learning, information retrieval, and personalization systems. He founded Active Intelligence and advises multiple AI startups and accelerator cohorts, blending academic rigor (PhD in ML from Tokyo Institute of Technology) with hands-on product and advisory roles at Visa, Techstars, and several startup boards. His work spans active learning, recommender systems, NLP and predictive analytics, with a track record of mentoring PhD students and translating research into commercial products and grants-winning educational apps. Notably, he combines long-form academic appointments with direct engineering leadership and startup mentorship, making him fluent in both peer-reviewed research and fast-paced product development.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Brigham Young UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Frank Phillips CollegePhD, Computer Science (Machine Learning), PhD, Computer Science (Machine Learning) at Tokyo Institute of TechnologyMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstInnovation Analysis, Innovation Analysis at Stanford University
English, Russian, Japanese, German, Spanish, Russian
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Github Skills (194)
python10
asp-net-core10
asp-net10
asp-net-identity10
aws-s310
javascript10
r10
big-data10
dotnet10
scale10
sql10
data-processing10
data-visualization10
reactive-programming10
webgl10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
neil-rubens/docker-spark
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:35 commits, 36 pushes, 1 issue in 2 days
scaladocker-sparkdockerspark
neil-rubens/aws-swf-helloworld-spring-intellij-seed
Jan 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 9 months
spring-bootaws-swfintellij-springseedspring
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