Masato Hagiwara

Current

• Baidu Japan, Inc. Research & Development Engineer at Baidu.com

Past

• Ph.D. Candidate for Computer Science at Grad. School of Nagoya University
• Research Intern at Microsoft
• Develper at Serendi

• Software Engineer Summer Intern at Google Inc.

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Education

• Nagoya University

Connections

20 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• My Website

Masato Hagiwara’s Summary

Strong academic background in Computer Science, especially Statistical Natural Language Processing, Lexical Knowledge Acquisition, and Machine Learning. Also plenty of experience in web development. Two internship experiences at cutting-edge computer companies --- Google and Microsoft Research.

A quick learner and self-motivated starter --- started a classified-ad web site "frippa" (http://www.frippa.com/) which is now one of the biggest classified-ad web sites in Japan. Several years of experiences as a temporary developer/engineer in many tech start-up companies.

Masato Hagiwara’s Specialties:

Academic background on Statistical Natural Language Processing, Strong command of many computer languages including Ruby, PHP, C#, C++, Java. Native Japanese speaker, with advanced written/spoken English skill.

Masato Hagiwara’s Experience

• Baidu Japan, Inc. Research & Development Engineer

  Baidu.com

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  April 2009 — Present (4 months)

  Core development engineer for Baidu Japan. search engine. Responsible for search engines' core indexing/ranking strategy and natural language processing-related development/research.

• Ph.D. Candidate for Computer Science

  Grad. School of Nagoya University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  April 2006 — March 2009 (3 years)

  Research on Natural Language Processing, Algorithms, Information Retrieval, Database Architecture, Numerical Models, Artificial Intelligence. Especially interested in lexical knowledge acquisition, text mining, and machine learning.
  
  Skipped the fourth year of undergraduate due to the excellent performance in classes.
  Undergraduate GPA: 3.89/4.0 (CS), 3.82/4.0 (Overall)
  Graduate school GPA: 3.82/4.0 (Overall)

• Research Intern

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  April 2008 — July 2008 (4 months)

  Under the guidance of Hisami Suzuki. Worked on Japanese query alteration in the NLP (Natural Language Processing) Group.

• Develper

  Serendi

  (Computer Software industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year)

  Developed "Serendi: A Location-Aware Social Networking Platform," under the guidance of Prof. David J. Farber. As one of the lead developers, my commitment was the development of the user relationship compatibility analysis system.

• Software Engineer Summer Intern

  Google Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

  August 2005 — September 2005 (2 months)

  Under the guidance of Dekang Lin and Jun Wu. Worked on query suggestion in Japanese, which is now public.

Masato Hagiwara’s Education

• Nagoya University

  2001 — 2009

Additional Information

Masato Hagiwara’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Website

Masato Hagiwara’s Interests:

music composition (http://lilyx.net/music/), playing musical instruments Participated in many translation projects between Japanese and English, some of which are volunteer work

Masato Hagiwara’s Honors:

Outstanding Presentation Award at the 3rd NLP Symposium for Young Researchers.
Outstanding Presentation Award at the 22nd IMI Seminar of the 21st Century COE Program.
Program Committee of the Student Research Workshop (SRW) at ACL-IJCNLP 2009.

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