Akira Kitauchi
Data Scientist
Greater Tokyo Area Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolAkira Kitauchi is a data scientist and AI leader with over two decades of experience applying natural language processing, information retrieval, and text mining to real-world products. After an MS in NLP from Nara Institute of Science and Technology and a long research stint at NTT Data, he moved into startups and product-focused roles, driving algorithmic improvements for SPEEDA and NewsPicks. As Chief AI Officer at FORCAS he led ML and NLP efforts to enrich B2B marketing data and build models that surface high-value prospects across a 1.2M-company index. He combines deep R&D pedigree with hands-on engineering in production systems, improving search, recommendation, and information-extraction pipelines. Based in the Greater Tokyo Area, he is comfortable translating academic techniques into scalable product features and has a track record of moving from prototype research to deployed business impact.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Natural Language Processing, Master’s Degree, Natural Language Processing at Nara Institute of Science and TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Kyoto University
Github Skills (7)
least-squares8
matrix-factorization7
python5
emacs4
frontend3
ivy3
isearch1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tau3000/dotfiles
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
tau3000/WiFiReconnect
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
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