Ruka Funaki

Executive Officer and CRO(Chief R&D Officer)

Biography

Earned graduate degree at the Department of Creative Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. At graduate school, conducted research on multimodal machine learning that combines image recognition and natural language processing. After that, enrolled Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. (now, Recruit Co., Ltd.) and managed more than 10 image recognition / machine learning projects. Currently holds responsibliblity as R&D Manager of LegalForce Inc. and is building a natural language processing system. At the same time, researching natural language processing in Kyoto University.

Interests

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence / Natural Language Processing / Information Retrieval
Web Development (Frontend / Backend / Cloud Infrastructure)
Smartphone Apps Development （iOS / Android）
Personal Development
Consulting
Organization Building / Management
Investment (Real Estate / Stock / Investment trust, etc.)

Education

PhD in Information Technology, enrolled in 2018

Kyoto University
Master of Science in Information Technology, 2016

The University of Tokyo
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, 2014

Ehime University

Skills

Items	Descriptions
Programming Languages	Expart: Ruby, Python, PHP, R, JavaScript, C, C++, Java, Objective-C, ShellScript, SQL, HTML, XML, XPath Intermediate: Perl/CGI, ECMAScript 6, CoffeeScript, Latex, node JS, CSS Biginner: ActionScript(2.0), Visual Basic, Visual C#, Scheme, Matlab, Assembly, HLSL, Haskell, Groovy, Processing, TypeScript, Go, Lua
OS	Linux, Mac OS, Windows
Frameworks	Ruby on Rails, Bottle, Flask, JSP/Java Sarvlet, WordPress, CodeIgniter, jQuery, React JS, Vue JS, Backbone JS
Smart phone development	Android SDK, iOS SDK, React Native
Middleware	Apache, Nginx, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Mongo DB, Hadoop
Cloud System	AWS(EC2, S3, CloudWatch, ELB, DynamoDB, RDS, Auto scaling, Route53, SMS), GCP(Compute Engine, Big Query, StackDriver) Firebase（Authentication/Hosting/Functions/Storage/Firestore）
DevOps	Jenkins, Fabric, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, SVN
Machine Learning	Image recognition, NLP, Caffe, Theano, Pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, Annoy
Editors	Visual Studio, Intelli J, Visual Studio Code, Net Beans, Eclipse, Sublime Text, Vim
Others	Linux, Mac OS, Windows
Frameworks	Win32 API, DirectX, Google App Script, Luminati, Jmeter, Binance API, Twitter API, Facebook API

Web Development

Backend, Frontend development

Machine Learning

Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision

Infrastructures

Cloud Infrastructures(AWS, GCP)

Smartphone Development

iOS, Android

DevOps

Containers, CI, CD, Version Control, etc.

Game Development

Management

Organization Design, Management

Work Experience

Overview

Experience in building web, smartphone apps, games, cloud infrastructure, etc. in a wide range of fields
Experience in research on machine learning
Experience in developing and leading multiple AI development projects
Experience in launching AI products from scratch, building R&D organization, managing, and hiring