Tetsuro Sugiura
Data Scientist
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolTetsuro Sugiura is a Senior Data Scientist with 11 years of experience applying physics-driven rigor to production ML systems, now working at Microsoft after leading recommender and counterfactual sales-prediction initiatives at Starbucks. He holds a PhD in Particle Physics from the University of Tsukuba and moved from experimental-data analysis in C++/ROOT (STAR experiment) into large-scale industry ML, notably improving Yahoo! Shopping’s recommender and deploying an IR-backed ranking system. Comfortable across Python, Java, Spark, Kubernetes and Solr, he combines solid engineering (Hadoop/Hive/Presto, Airflow) with strong modeling skills (GBDT/LightGBM, uplift modeling) and frequent A/B testing. A Kaggle Competition Expert with multiple top-3% finishes, he also documents technical learnings in company and community blogs, bridging research-caliber analysis with pragmatic production delivery.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Tokyo University of ScienceDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at University of Tsukuba
Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
monman53/online_judge
Jan 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:100 pushes, 3 issues in 4 years 5 months
monman53/plasmidraw
Oct 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:38 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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