Hokuto Kagaya - Software Engineer

Resume

Biography

  • January 3rd, 1992: Born in Akita
  • Apr., 2010 - Mar., 2016: Bachelor and Master in the University of Tokyo
    • Majoring computer vision, machine learning application, especially food image recognition (Advisor: Prof. Kiyoharu Aizawa)
  • Aug., 2014 - Sep., 2014, Jan., 2015 - Dec., 2015: Internship and part-time engineer at Preferred Infrastructure, Preferred Networks
    • About image detection, surveillance video analysis
  • Apr., 2016 - Oct., 2022: Software Engineer at LINE Corporation
    • 2016-2019: Software Engineer / Tech Lead, LINE Game Platform Division
    • 2019-2022: Software Engineer, LINE Business Data Platform Development Division
  • Nov., 2022 - current: Software Engineer at SmartNews Inc.

Publications

  • International Conferences (peer-reviewed)
    1. Hokuto Kagaya, Kiyoharu Aizawa, Makoto Ogawa; Food Detection and Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Network , ACMMM 2014.
    2. Hokuto Kagaya, Kiyoharu Aizawa; Highly Accurate Food/Non-Food Image Classification based on a Deep Convolutional Neural Network , MADiMa 2015.
  • Domestic conferences
    1. 5 publications
  • Technical Reports
    1. 1 publication

Skills

Natural languages: Japanese (native), English (business, Level: CEFR B2 High based on PROGOS test), Korean (casual conversation)
Programming languages: Java, Kotlin, Python, JavaScript (Go, C, C++, Perl, Ruby for hobby and education)
DB/Middlewares: Elasticsearch, Redis, HBase, Kafka, MySQL
Others: CentOS, Ubuntu, Ansible, Docker, nginx, Computer Vision basics, Deep Learning basics, Hadoop Ecosystem (Hadoop, YARN, Hive, Spark, Presto)

Favorites

  • A Cappella
  • Coffee
  • Whisky (or, Whiskey)
  • K-POP, K-Drama