Prior to being an assistant professor The University of Tokyo, he has an industrial experience as a product manager at CEO office of Rakuten Inc., one of the largest internet company in Japan. One of his achievement was to develop the strategy to get more traffic from outside Rakuten’s ecosystem and manage a team to launch Rakuten’s APIs, which is the most used webservice in Japan. He also developed algorithms of contextual and affiliate-based advertisement engine, map-based community service, and EAN-based catalog service.

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