Takuya Hiraoka
Researcher at NEC Corporation
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolTakuya Hiraoka is a researcher based in Tokyo with over a decade of cross-sector experience in natural language processing, spoken dialogue systems, and reinforcement learning, blending academic rigor with industrial impact at institutions like NEC, RIKEN, and AIST. He holds a doctorate from Nara Institute of Science and Technology and has a proven publication record in top venues such as NeurIPS and ICLR, reflecting strong contributions to ML and dialogue research. His work spans theory and applied systems, from visiting research at USC to long-term research roles in Japan, giving him a practical edge in moving prototypes toward real-world deployment. Known for a playful GitHub bio—“a machine for turning coffee into buggy code”—he combines deep technical expertise with a candid, hands-on approach to experimentation and iteration.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor's Degree, NLP, Dialogue Systems, RL, Doctor's Degree, NLP, Dialogue Systems, RL at Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Github Skills (5)
deep-learning5
pytorch5
mujoco4
deep-reinforcement-learning4
reinforcement-learning3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
TakuyaHiraoka/Dialogue-State-Tracking-using-LSTM
Nov 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
Contributions:40 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.