Osakana Taro
Summary
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SeniorTaro Makino is a Research Scientist based in Tokyo with 13 years of experience applying machine learning to high-stakes domains, now building reliable AI agents for enterprise financial applications at Sakana AI. He holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from NYU (advised by Kyunghyun Cho and Krzysztof Geras) and an MS in AI from Edinburgh, bringing rigorous statistical grounding and a track record in detecting and mitigating spurious correlations in medical and biological data. His recent industry work includes ML-driven drug discovery internships at Genentech and Prescient Design, giving him practical experience translating research into domain-specific solutions. Known for bridging deep research with production needs, he focuses on robustness and reliability rather than black-box performance gains.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (72)
linux9
shell9
powershell9
chromiumos9
netcore9
command-line9
windows8
manifest8
macos8
disk-image7
arm7
plugin7
overlay7
buttons6
azure6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
osakanataro/get-ontap-config
Nov 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:26 pushes in 1 year 4 months
osakanataro/findilos
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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