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Makoto Hiramatsu

Software engineer for AI4Science at Preferred Networks, Inc. (Matlantis). Open-source committer on Optuna, author of Konoha and cafleet.

Software

Libraries I author and maintain, and major frameworks I contribute to.

Research

Natural language processing, with a focus on Japanese text and real-world applications.

2020

2018

  • Encoder-Decoder Neural Networks for Taxonomy Classification

    Makoto Hiramatsu, Kei Wakabayashi · eCom @ SIGIR

Full list on Google Scholar.

Writing

Technical writing on NLP, machine learning, and developer tooling.

All articles on Zenn · Qiita · Medium

Experience

  1. 2022 — present

    Preferred Networks, Inc.

    Software Engineer

    Software development for Matlantis, an AI-powered atomistic simulation platform for materials discovery (AI4Science).

  2. 2019 — 2022

    Preferred Networks, Inc.

    Open-Source Developer (contract)

    Open-source development of Chainer and Optuna.

  3. 2019 — 2022

    Cookpad, Inc.

    Software Engineer / Researcher

    Machine learning and NLP for a large-scale recipe service: named entity recognition, corpus construction, and calorie estimation.

  4. 2017 — 2019

    University of Tsukuba

    M.S. in Informatics

    Specialized in natural language processing.