predicate.jp - Yusuke Oda

Yusuke Oda (Odashi)

A Researcher/Software Engineer/Technical Manager in the ML/NLP/LLM area.

I have currently multiple positions:

Skills

  • Speaking:
    • Japanese (native)
    • English
  • Programming languages:
    • C++
    • Rust
    • Python
    • TypeScript
  • Specific enginerring skills:
    • Algorithm & data structure
    • Library design
    • Natural language processing
    • CUDA
    • React/Next.js
    • Google Cloud

Work experience (academic)

  • 2024-04 - Present: Project Researcher, National Institute of Informatics
    • 2024-04 - Present: Project Associate Professor
  • 2023-10 - Present: Affiliate Assistant Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
  • 2022-03 - Present: Editor, Association for Natural Language Processing
  • 2020-12 - 2023-09: Researcher, Tohoku University
  • 2020-08 - 2020-11: Research Collaborator, Tohoku University
  • 2017-04 - 2018-03: External Collaborator, AIST
  • 2017-04 - 2018-03: Research Engineer, NICT

Work experience (industry)

  • 2023-04 - Present: Cierpa & Co.
    • 2023-04: Technical Director
  • 2022-03 - 2023-06: Inspired Cognition
    • 2023-07: (acquired by Baobab)
    • 2022-09: CTO
    • 2022-03: Software Engineer
  • 2021-02 - Present: Baobab
    • 2023-07: Senior Research Scientist
    • 2021-02: Technical Consultant
  • 2020-08 - 2023-02: LegalForce
    • 2022-09: Technical Consultant
    • 2020-12: Chief Researcher
    • 2020-08: Technical Consultant
  • 2018-04 - 2020-11: Software Engineer, Google
  • 2016-05 - 2016-07: Internship, Google
  • 2015-09 - 2015-12: Internship, Google
  • 2013-08 - 2013-09: Internship, IBM Research - Tokyo
  • 2008-12 - 2009-03: Part-time engineer, tech-group, OPTiM
  • 2008-08: Internship, OPTiM

Education

  • Mar. 2015: M.Eng., Department of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
  • Mar. 2013: B.Eng., National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education
  • Mar. 2013: Finished, Advanced course of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Kobe City college of Technology
  • Mar. 2011: A.Eng., Department of Electronics, Kobe City College of Technology

Grants/scholarship

  • Jun. 2017: 公益財団法人 電気通信普及財団 海外渡航費援助
  • Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2017: Research Fellow (DC1), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2015: Exemption of the full amount of scholarship repayment, Japan Student Services Organization

Awards

  • Mar. 2022: 言語処理学会 第 28 回年次大会 - 委員特別賞 (co-author)
  • Mar. 2019: 言語処理学会 論文賞
  • Jun. 2018: アジア太平洋機械翻訳協会 長尾賞 学生奨励賞
  • Aug. 2016: NLP 若手の会 第 11 回シンポジウム - 奨励賞
  • May 2016: 情報処理学会 第 226 回 NL・第 111 回 SLP 合同研究発表会 - 学生奨励賞 (co-author)
  • Mar. 2016: 言語処理学会 第 22 回年次大会 - 優秀賞
  • Sep. 2015: NLP 若手の会 第 10 回シンポジウム - 奨励賞 (co-author)
  • Sep. 2015: 教育システム情報学会 第 40 回全国大会 - 奨励賞 (co-author)
  • Mar. 2015: 言語処理学会 第 21 回年次大会 - 優秀賞
  • May 2014: 情報社会学会 2014 年度年次研究発表大会 - プレゼンテーション賞
  • Mar. 2013: 教育システム情報学会 関西支部 2012 年度学生研究発表会 - 優秀賞

Patents

  • 特願2021-206294: 自然言語処理システム、自然言語処理方法及び自然言語処理プログラム
  • 特願2017-503426: 構文評価装置、翻訳装置、構文評価方法及び構文評価プログラム

Contents

  • Ckylark: Constituency parser of natural languages. (Japanese manual)
  • Travatar: Tree-to-string statistical machine translation toolkit.
  • MTEval: Automatic evaluation toolkit of machine translation outputs.
  • DyNet: Deep learning toolkit (C++, Python, and so on).
  • primitiv: Deep learning toolkit (C++, Python, Rust).
  • NMTKit: Neural machine translation toolkit on DyNet.
  • latexify: Converter from Python functions to LaTeX formula.
  • Vaporetto: Very fast, KyTea compatible tokenizer.
  • Vibrato: Very fast, MeCab compatible tokenizer.