Taku Watanabe
VP & Head Of US Operations
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolTaku Watanabe is a materials informatics and computational chemistry leader with 11 years of R&D and management experience, currently serving as VP & Head of US Operations while leading global customer success initiatives. He combines a PhD in Materials Science and a US postdoc with hands-on modeling and experimental work on all-solid-state batteries, driving technology transfer to pilot-scale manufacturing. Taku has managed cross-disciplinary teams of ~15 engineers, authored 40+ peer-reviewed papers, and bridges scientific research with business development through partnerships, marketing, and strategic recruitment. Fluent in Japanese and English, he is also a proficient programmer (Python, C++) who applies machine learning tools to accelerate materials discovery. Notably, his background spans both industrial R&D at Samsung and ENEOS and startup-scale productization at Matlantis and Preferred Computational Chemistry, reflecting a rare blend of deep technical expertise and operational leadership.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Engineering Physics, BE, Engineering Physics at Stevens Institute of TechnologyPhD, Materials Science, PhD, Materials Science at University of Florida
Github Skills (65)
storybook10
switch10
windows10
nvm10
hybrid10
javascript10
eof10
browser10
react-framework10
management10
compiler10
versioning10
static-site-generator10
typescript10
ssg10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
takueof/.emacs.d
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
taku_eof's GNU Emacs configuration files.
Contributions:319 commits, 1 PR, 461 pushes in 4 years 1 month
gnu-emacsemacs-configurationgnuemacseof
takueof/next.js
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
The React Framework
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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