Summary
Yukino Ikegami is an experienced NLP and AI researcher-practitioner with 14 years in industry and academia, currently working as a research and development staff at Japan's IPA. She has published multiple refereed journal and conference papers and brings over three years of hands-on experience building data pipelines, data analysis, and MLOps solutions on Google Cloud. Her background spans applied NLP work—from predictive text and emotion-aware input features in a smartphone keyboard to production website content extraction, classification, and sentiment models. As a solo consultant she helps small businesses evaluate practical NLP approaches and trade-offs, reflecting a pragmatic focus on deployable solutions rather than only cutting-edge models. Based in Tokyo, she also contributes open-source tooling related to NLP, aiming to make research benefits accessible to the public.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Environment, Master's degree, Information Environment at 東京電機大学
Japanese, English