Keiichi Kuroyanagi (黒柳 敬一)

Mobility Technologies Co., Ltd.

AI Research Engineer

AI Technology Development Dept.

Born in 1985. He holds a BCs in College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University and an MSc in Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University. During his studies, he studied the theory of condensed matter physics (Anderson localization of Bose-Einstein condensation of cold atomic gas, etc.). He joined the Financial Engineering Group, Inc in 2010. Since 2011, he worked on site at the Data Science and Technology Center (DS&TC) of NS Solutions Corporation of the parent company and engaged in consulting work utilizing data science for various industries. Since 2014, he worked on site at KDDI Research and engaged in various research and development of marketing measures and strategies at au shops etc. In July 2017, he transferred to Sansan, Inc and he tackled profiling analysis of Eight users focusing on the relationship of business cards and building automated system for inputting business card images utilizing deep learning. He changed his job to DeNA in September 2018 and worked on research and development using Deep Learning at the AI system department, and now reaches.

While doing business related to data science, he has participated in various data science competitions and has made great results. He has also written a data scientist training book series and contributes to the data science community.

【Certification】

· Cloudera Apache Hadoop Certified Developer (CCDH) (June 13, 2013)

【Awards History】

· KDD Cup 2015 6th Prize. URL: https://biendata.com/competition/kddcup2015/winners/

· Kaggle - Airbnb New User Bookings Challenge 2nd Prize. URL: Airbnb New User Bookings, Winner's Interview: 2nd place, Keiichi Kuroyanagi (@Keiku) | no free hunch http://blog.kaggle.com/2016/03/17/airbnb-new-user-bookings-winners-interview-2nd-place-keiichi-kuroyanagi-keiku/

【Authoring Book】

· データサイエンティスト養成読本 登竜門編 (March 23, 2017)

· Software Design 2017年8月号「ビジネスの変革をもたらす機械学習」 (July 18, 2017)

· やってみよう！ 機械学習 Software Design別冊（Feb, 20, 2019）