Jun Harashima
Natural Language Processing Engineer
Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolJun Harashima is a Natural Language Processing engineer with a Ph.D. in Informatics from Kyoto University and over a decade of experience bridging academic research and product-focused ML engineering. He led search and machine learning teams at Cookpad, rising to Head of R&D, and now focuses on improving foundational NLP analysis and building/operating NLP APIs at LINEヤフー. Jun combines hands-on system design for production search/ML services with research rigor from his doctoral and JSPS fellowship background, enabling practical yet scientifically grounded solutions. He has moved fluidly between individual contributor, team lead, and department head roles, demonstrating both technical depth and organizational leadership. Based in Japan, he brings a long-term focus on search relevance and deployable NLP infrastructure that scales across consumer-facing products.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Informatics at Kyoto University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (38)
sentencepiece10
mecab10
text-processing10
hci10
natural-language-processing9
docker-container9
jupyter-notebook9
nlp9
cudnn8
machine-learning8
cookiecutter8
chainer8
morphological-analysis7
suffix-array7
gpu7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jun-harashima/dotfiles
May 2021 - Mar 2026
Contributions:17 PRs, 14 pushes, 23 branches in 4 years 11 months
jun-harashima/pott
Mar 2018 - Nov 2021
Paper organization tool on terminal
Contributions:339 commits, 285 PRs, 207 pushes in 3 years 9 months
terminalorganization-toollinuxcli
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