Wataru Hirota
Research Manaager at Stockmark Inc.
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolWataru Hirota is a Research Manager at Stockmark Inc. with 11 years of NLP and AI experience across Japan and the US, leading an "AI for Innovation" team that builds practical tools for new-business discovery such as knowledge-graph-driven opportunity detection, personalized LLM-as-a-Judge systems, and persona-based market research. He blends academic rigor from Osaka University with product-focused leadership, driving 0→1 innovation, customer PoCs, and the tech organization design needed to turn research into commercial value. Previously at Megagon Labs he worked on conversational search, multilingual sentence embeddings, and intent understanding, giving him strong foundations in cross-lingual and retrieval-focused NLP. Based in Kyoto, he continues to publish and ship research while prioritizing real-world impact and scalable integration with clients’ business workflows.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Osaka University
Github Skills (90)
donut10
fasttext10
glove10
word2vec10
corpus10
topic-modeling10
latent-dirichlet-allocation10
gensim10
preprocessing10
jupyter-notebook10
word-embeddings10
nlp9
arabic-nlp9
lda9
python9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tarohi24/repository_mining
Aug 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:55 pushes, 4 branches, 1 comment in 3 years 2 months
tarohi24/literature
Oct 2019 - Aug 2020
Scientific papers, patents, books, etc..
Contributions:18 PRs, 255 pushes, 18 branches in 10 months
data-sciencescientific-papersmachine-learningpatentsscientific
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